ThatQuiz Test Library Take this test now
Jackson Pollock - Test
Contributed by: Downes
  • 1. Where was Jackson Pollock born?
A) London, England
B) Cody, Wyoming
C) Paris, France
D) New York City, New York
  • 2. Which art movement was Jackson Pollock associated with?
A) Impressionism
B) Cubism
C) Surrealism
D) Abstract Expressionism
  • 3. In which decade did Pollock gain fame for his unique style of painting?
A) 1980s
B) 1940s
C) 1960s
D) 2000s
  • 4. Which famous art collector supported Jackson Pollock's work?
A) Frida Kahlo
B) Vincent van Gogh
C) Peggy Guggenheim
D) Andy Warhol
  • 5. Jackson Pollock's painting style is often described as:
A) Action painting
B) Fauvism
C) Realism
D) Pointillism
  • 6. Which famous actress was married to Jackson Pollock?
A) Marilyn Monroe
B) Audrey Hepburn
C) Lee Krasner
D) Grace Kelly
  • 7. What was the title of one of Pollock's most famous drip paintings?
A) Starry Night
B) The Persistence of Memory
C) Guernica
D) Number 1A, 1948
  • 8. Which museum is home to one of the most extensive collections of Jackson Pollock's work?
A) The National Gallery of Art
B) The Guggenheim Museum
C) The Louvre
D) The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
  • 9. What technique is Jackson Pollock most famous for?
A) Pointillism
B) Cubism
C) Fauvism
D) "Drip technique"
  • 10. What was the name of Pollock's father before he changed it?
A) Polk
B) Smith
C) McCoy
D) Jackson
  • 11. Which Mexican muralist influenced Jackson Pollock?
A) José Clemente Orozco
B) David Alfaro Siqueiros
C) Diego Rivera
D) Frida Kahlo
  • 12. Who was Jackson Pollock's teacher at the Art Students League?
A) Pablo Picasso
B) Georgia O'Keeffe
C) Thomas Hart Benton
D) Frida Kahlo
  • 13. What did Pollock's mother do as a teenager?
A) Worked in a factory
B) Taught school
C) Was an artist
D) Made and sold dresses
  • 14. In which year did Jackson Pollock move to New York City with his brother?
A) 1956
B) 1945
C) 1930
D) 1928
  • 15. Who introduced Jackson Pollock to the use of liquid paint?
A) The Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros
B) Peggy Guggenheim
C) Marcel Duchamp
D) Dr. Joseph L. Henderson
  • 16. In what year did Pollock begin using paint pouring techniques?
A) 1943
B) 1938
C) 1942
D) 1936
  • 17. Who was Jackson Pollock's therapist from 1938 through 1941?
A) Violet Staub de Laszlo
B) Dr. Joseph L. Henderson
C) Peggy Guggenheim
D) Marcel Duchamp
  • 18. What type of therapy did Pollock undergo during his struggle with alcoholism?
A) Jungian psychotherapy
B) Art therapy
C) Cognitive-behavioral therapy
D) Freudian analysis
  • 19. Who suggested that Pollock paint the mural on canvas rather than a wall?
A) Peggy Guggenheim
B) Clement Greenberg
C) Dr. Joseph L. Henderson
D) Marcel Duchamp
  • 20. What was the size of the mural Pollock created for Peggy Guggenheim's townhouse?
A) 6-by-12-foot
B) 8-by-20-foot
C) 10-by-30-foot
D) 5-by-15-foot
  • 21. Which art critic described Pollock's talent as 'volcanic'?
A) Clement Greenberg
B) Marcel Duchamp
C) Dr. Joseph L. Henderson
D) Peggy Guggenheim
  • 22. Who influenced Jackson Pollock's 'drip' paintings according to art critic Clement Greenberg?
A) The Navajo sand artist
B) David Alfaro Siqueiros
C) Michel Tapié
D) Janet Sobel
  • 23. What type of paintings did Pollock create after 1951 that were darker in color?
A) 'Drip period' paintings
B) 'Black pourings'
C) Figurative elements with vibrant colors
D) Navajo-inspired sand art
  • 24. What gallery did Pollock move to that was more commercial?
A) Sidney Janis Gallery
B) Studio Paul Facchetti in Paris
C) Betty Parsons Gallery
D) Alfonso Ossorio's private collection
  • 25. What personal issue did Pollock struggle with due to pressure from collectors?
A) He developed a severe anxiety disorder.
B) He faced financial bankruptcy.
C) His alcoholism deepened.
D) He became reclusive and stopped painting.
  • 26. In which year did Pollock and Krasner get married?
A) 1948
B) 1942
C) 1945
D) 1950
  • 27. Who did Krasner introduce Pollock to that helped further his career?
A) John Bernard Myers
B) Fritz Bultman
C) Peggy Guggenheim
D) Herbert Matter
  • 28. How did Fritz Bultman refer to Pollock in relation to Krasner?
A) "Uninfluenced by his wife"
B) "An artist who didn't need guidance"
C) "Krasner's creation, her Frankenstein"
D) "A genius independent of Lee"
  • 29. In what year did Jackson Pollock paint his last two paintings?
A) 1957
B) 1954
C) 1956
D) 1955
  • 30. Who survived the car accident that killed Jackson Pollock?
A) Tony Smith
B) Edith Metzger
C) Ruth Kligman
D) Lee Krasner
  • 31. Where are Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner buried?
A) Cemetery of the Holy Cross, Sedona
B) Woodlawn Cemetery, New York
C) Green River Cemetery in Springs
D) Forest Lawn Memorial Park
  • 32. Which artist influenced Pollock through the concept of fumage?
A) David Alfaro Siqueiros
B) Wolfgang Paalen
C) Pablo Picasso
D) Janet Sobel
  • 33. What term did Harold Rosenberg coin in his 1952 ARTnews article?
A) 'Action painting'.
B) 'Drip technique'.
C) 'Abstract expressionism'.
D) 'Color field painting'.
  • 34. Which organization sponsored exhibitions of Pollock's work?
A) The Guggenheim Foundation.
B) The National Endowment for the Arts.
C) The Museum of Modern Art.
D) The Congress for Cultural Freedom, backed by the CIA.
  • 35. Which artist made 'all-over composition' a hallmark of his works in the 1960s?
A) Frank Stella.
B) Helen Frankenthaler.
C) Jackson Pollock.
D) Morris Louis.
  • 36. In a 2004 poll, what rank was One: Number 31, 1950 given among modern art pieces?
A) First.
B) Eighth-most influential.
C) Not ranked.
D) Fiftieth.
  • 37. Who was initially set to play Lee Krasner in one of the early 1990s Pollock biographical projects?
A) Barbra Streisand
B) Ruth Kligman
C) Marcia Gay Harden
D) Leelee Sobieski
  • 38. Which actor was set to portray Jackson Pollock in the project involving Barwood Films and TriBeCa Productions?
A) Robert De Niro
B) Ed Harris
C) Al Pacino
D) Ben Affleck
  • 39. What was the title of the memoir by Ruth Kligman that a second Pollock biographical project in the early 1990s was based on?
A) Jackson Pollock: A Biography
B) To a Violent Grave
C) Love Affair (1974)
D) An American Saga
  • 40. Who directed and starred in the film 'Pollock' released in 2000?
A) Robert De Niro
B) Harold Becker
C) Ed Harris
D) Barbra Streisand
  • 41. Which organization did not authorize or collaborate with the film 'Pollock'?
A) The Pollock-Krasner Foundation
B) Barwood Films
C) TriBeCa Productions
D) Paramount Pictures
  • 42. In which magazine did Henry Adams claim that Jackson Pollock wrote his name in the painting 'Mural'?
A) Smithsonian magazine
B) Time
C) Artforum
D) The New Yorker
  • 43. What was the insured value of Jackson Pollock's painting 'Mural' as mentioned in Smithsonian magazine?
A) $200 million
B) $140 million
C) $50 million
D) $100 million
  • 44. Who introduced a bill to force the sale of Jackson Pollock's 'Mural' held by the University of Iowa?
A) Robert De Niro
B) Scott Raecker
C) Henry Adams
D) Ed Harris
  • 45. In which movie is Jackson Pollock's painting 'Free Form' shown throughout?
A) Love Affair
B) Ex Machina
C) The Accountant (2016)
D) Pollock
  • 46. Who gifted the painting 'Free Form' to Anna Kendrick's character in 'The Accountant'?
A) Harold Becker's character
B) Ed Harris's character
C) Robert De Niro's character
D) Ben Affleck's character
  • 47. Which film features a pivotal scene with a monologue about artificial intelligence and Jackson Pollock?
A) The Accountant
B) Ex Machina
C) Pollock
D) Love Affair
  • 48. Who described the challenge of engineering a cognitive state in 'Ex Machina' as similar to Pollock's painting process?
A) Harold Becker
B) Nathan Bateman
C) Ben Affleck
D) Ed Harris
  • 49. Which government purchased 'Number 11, 1952' in 1973?
A) French government
B) American government
C) British government
D) Australian Gough Whitlam government
  • 50. What is another name for 'Number 11, 1952'?
A) No. 5, 1948
B) Number 28, 1951
C) Number 19 (1948)
D) Blue Poles
  • 51. Which painting became the world's most expensive painting in November 2006?
A) 'No. 5, 1948'
B) 'Number 19 (1948)'
C) 'Number 28, 1951'
D) 'Number 11, 1952'
  • 52. In which year did 'Number 28, 1951' sell at Christie's?
A) 2012
B) 1998
C) 2023
D) 2006
  • 53. Who purchased Pollock's painting 'Number 17A' in February 2016?
A) Kenneth C. Griffin
B) Gough Whitlam
C) Christie's
D) David Geffen
  • 54. Which gallery announced exclusive global representation of Pollock in 2024?
A) Australian National Gallery
B) Christie's
C) Kasmin
D) Museum of Modern Art
  • 55. In what year was the Pollock-Krasner Authentication Board created?
A) 2003
B) 1990
C) 1978
D) 1985
  • 56. Which technique was used for the first time by researchers at the University of Oregon to evaluate the authenticity of paintings?
A) Infrared spectroscopy
B) X-ray fluorescence
C) Fractal analysis
D) Pigment chromatography
  • 57. What unusual feature did 'Untitled 1950' contain that raised authenticity concerns?
A) Only natural earth pigments
B) Pigments only used in the 1940s
C) Yellow paint pigments not commercially available until about 1970
D) No yellow pigments at all
  • 58. In what year did Richard Taylor use computer analysis to show similarities between Pollock's painted patterns and fractals?
A) 2005
B) 2015
C) 1983
D) 1999
  • 59. What was the success rate of a 2015 study using fractal analysis to distinguish real from fake Pollocks?
A) 85%
B) 75%
C) 93%
D) 99%
  • 60. In what year did the Pollock-Krasner Foundation achieve a 99% success rate using AI based on fractals?
A) 2024
B) 2015
C) 2003
D) 1999
  • 61. What effect do Pollock's fractals have on observers, according to cognitive neuroscientists?
A) Increased anxiety
B) Stress-reduction
C) Confusion
D) Excitement
  • 62. Which organization is the U.S. copyright representative for the Pollock-Krasner Foundation?
A) Archives of American Art
B) Stony Brook University
C) International Foundation for Art Research
D) Artists Rights Society
  • 63. When do regular tours of the Pollock-Krasner House and Studio occur?
A) Only in winter
B) All year round
C) From May through October
D) Only during summer
Created with That Quiz — where test making and test taking are made easy for math and other subject areas.