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Pablo Picasso
Contributed by: Downes
  • 1. When was Pablo Picasso born?
A) 1925
B) 1900
C) 1881
D) 1856
  • 2. In which country was Pablo Picasso born?
A) Italy
B) France
C) Germany
D) Spain
  • 3. What art movement was Picasso a co-founder of?
A) Cubism
B) Surrealism
C) Impressionism
D) Abstract Expressionism
  • 4. Which famous painting by Picasso depicts the bombing of a Basque town during the Spanish Civil War?
A) The Weeping Woman
B) Guernica
C) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
D) The Old Guitarist
  • 5. How many wives did Picasso have?
A) 1
B) 4
C) 2
D) 3
  • 6. What type of artwork is Picasso's 'Bust of a Woman'?
A) Watercolor
B) Oil Painting
C) Print
D) Sculpture
  • 7. What was the name of Picasso's first wife?
A) Olga Khokhlova
B) Marie-Thérèse Walter
C) Jacqueline Roque
D) Françoise Gilot
  • 8. Where did Picasso spend most of his adult life?
A) United States
B) France
C) Italy
D) Spain
  • 9. Which art form did Picasso explore towards the end of his life?
A) Glassblowing
B) Fiber Art
C) Woodworking
D) Ceramics
  • 10. What was the name of the artist studio in Paris where Picasso worked for many years?
A) Bateau-Lavoir
B) Montmartre Studios
C) Left Bank Atelier
D) Champs-Élysées Atelier
  • 11. What is the title of one of Picasso's famous self-portraits created in 1907?
A) Blue Self-Portrait
B) Self-Portrait with Striped Shirt
C) The Absinthe Drinker
D) Self-Portrait with Palette
  • 12. What year did Picasso pass away?
A) 1973
B) 1960
C) 1985
D) 1995
  • 13. Which artist was a close friend of Picasso and together they developed Cubism?
A) Salvador Dalí
B) Georges Braque
C) Henri Matisse
D) Vincent van Gogh
  • 14. What was Pablo Ruiz Picasso's full birth name?
A) Tommaso Pablo Ruiz
B) Pablo Ruiz y Blasco
C) Pablo Picasso López
D) Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
  • 15. What was Picasso's father's profession?
A) Musician
B) Painter and art professor
C) Sculptor
D) Writer
  • 16. At what age did Picasso begin formal artistic training under his father?
A) Ten
B) Sixteen
C) Seven
D) Thirteen
  • 17. What was the subject of Picasso's first words according to his mother?
A) Palette
B) Paintbrush
C) Pencil (piz, piz)
D) Canvas
  • 18. Which city did Picasso consider his true home during times of sadness or nostalgia?
A) A Coruña
B) Málaga
C) Madrid
D) Barcelona
  • 19. What was the name of Picasso's sister who died when he was eight years old?
A) María
B) Conchita
C) Pilar
D) Dolores
  • 20. Which art school did Pablo Ruiz y Picasso's father become a professor at in A Coruña?
A) Prado Museum School
B) Cubist Art Institute
C) Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
D) School of Fine Arts
  • 21. How long did it take Picasso to complete the entrance exam for the advanced class at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona?
A) One week
B) Three days
C) Two weeks
D) One month
  • 22. What was Picasso's reaction to formal instruction after moving to Madrid?
A) He excelled in all his courses.
B) He transferred to another school.
C) He disliked it and stopped attending classes soon after enrolment.
D) He became the top student of his class.
  • 23. Which artist's works did Picasso especially admire at the Prado Museum?
A) El Greco
B) Claude Monet
C) Pablo Ruiz y Blasco
D) Vincent van Gogh
  • 24. What did Picasso's father and uncle decide to do for him at age 16?
A) Allow him to travel Europe for inspiration.
B) Enroll him in the School of Fine Arts in A Coruña.
C) Have him work as an apprentice painter.
D) Send him to Madrid's Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
  • 25. Under whose training did Picasso begin his artistic education before 1890?
A) Juan-Eduardo Cirlot
B) His father
C) Francisco de Asís Soler
D) Max Jacob
  • 26. In what year did Picasso's career as a painter officially begin?
A) 1900
B) 1894
C) 1896
D) 1893
  • 27. What was Picasso's first Parisian friend who helped him learn the language?
A) Francisco de Asís Soler
B) Max Jacob
C) Carles Casagemas
D) Juan-Eduardo Cirlot
  • 28. Which painting is a well-known etching from Picasso's Blue Period depicting a blind man and a sighted woman?
A) The Frugal Repast
B) La Vie
C) Portrait of Soler
D) Celestina
  • 29. What theme is recurrent in Picasso's works during the Blue Period?
A) War and conflict
B) Nature and landscapes
C) Blindness
D) Joy and happiness
  • 30. During which period did Picasso's style feature lighter tones with orange and pink colors?
A) The Cubism Period
B) The Rose Period
C) The Surrealism Period
D) The Blue Period
  • 31. What character became a personal symbol for Picasso during the Rose Period?
A) The harlequin
B) The clown
C) The juggler
D) The mime
  • 32. Who was Picasso's mistress that he met in Paris in 1904?
A) Marie-Thérèse Walter
B) Fernande Olivier
C) Olga Khokhlova
D) Dora Maar
  • 33. In what year did Picasso join the art gallery opened by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler?
A) 1904
B) 1907
C) 1910
D) 1905
  • 34. Who was among the first champions of Georges Braque and Cubism along with Picasso?
A) Henri Matisse
B) Fernande Olivier
C) Leo Stein
D) Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
  • 35. Which area in Paris was a hub for artists like Picasso during the early 20th century?
A) Montparnasse
B) Saint-Germain-des-Prés
C) Latin Quarter
D) Le Marais
  • 36. Which year is considered a transition between Picasso's Blue Period and Rose Period?
A) 1904
B) 1907
C) 1899
D) 1906
  • 37. Which painting marks the beginning of Picasso's African-influenced Period?
A) Nude with Raised Arms
B) Guernica
C) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
D) Three Women
  • 38. What inspired the two figures on the right in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?
A) Works of Matisse
B) Iberian sculpture
C) Cubist paintings by Georges Braque
D) African artefacts seen at Palais du Trocadéro
  • 39. In what year did Picasso publicly exhibit Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?
A) 1916
B) 1909
C) 1911
D) 1907
  • 40. In what year was Picasso arrested in connection with the theft of the Mona Lisa?
A) 1911
B) 1916
C) 1907
D) 1923
  • 41. Which style did Picasso adopt following World War I?
A) Surrealism
B) Neoclassical
C) Cubism
D) Impressionism
  • 42. What did Picasso allegedly tell his partner Françoise Gilot about women?
A) 'Women are machines for suffering.'
B) 'Women are my muses.'
C) 'Women are the source of inspiration.'
D) 'Women are my greatest supporters.'
  • 43. What did Picasso do until 3 a.m. the night before his death?
A) Played music
B) Sculpted
C) Wrote poetry
D) Painted
  • 44. In which year did Pablo Picasso make his first trip to Italy?
A) 1917
B) 1925
C) 1939
D) 1940
  • 45. What did Picasso say when asked if he created Guernica?
A) It was a collaborative work with other artists.
B) I was inspired by the events of the time.
C) Yes, I painted it for the war effort.
D) No, you did.
  • 46. What ballet was Picasso designing when he met Olga Khokhlova?
A) Giselle.
B) Swan Lake.
C) The Rite of Spring.
D) Erik Satie's Parade.
  • 47. Who did Picasso begin a romantic relationship with after the liberation of Paris in 1944?
A) Geneviève Laporte
B) Françoise Gilot
C) Olga Khokhlova
D) Dora Maar
  • 48. Who took over Picasso's work after Kahnweiler's contract terminated?
A) Léonce Rosenberg.
B) Ambroise Vollard.
C) Paul Rosenberg.
D) Gertrude Stein.
  • 49. Who influenced Picasso's use of a black and white scheme in Guernica through her photography?
A) Dora Maar
B) Marie-Thérèse Walter
C) Fernande Olivier
D) Olga Khokhlova
  • 50. With whom did Picasso collaborate on Pulcinella in 1920?
A) Claude Debussy.
B) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
C) Ludwig van Beethoven.
D) Igor Stravinsky.
  • 51. What motif replaced the harlequin in Picasso's work during the 1930s?
A) Sphinx
B) Minotaur
C) Bull
D) Harpy
  • 52. Who was the director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City that held a major retrospective of Picasso's works in 1939 and 1940?
A) Dora Maar
B) André Breton
C) Alfred Barr
D) Francisco Franco
  • 53. In which decade did a Swiss insurance company purchase two Picasso paintings?
A) The 1970s
B) The 1960s
C) The 1940s
D) The 1950s
  • 54. What medium did Picasso contribute to most importantly?
A) Sculpture
B) Ceramics
C) Painting
D) Prints
  • 55. Which journalist described Picasso as 'wayward and even malicious'?
A) Antoine Romand
B) Jonathan Weinberg
C) Alfred Frankenstein
D) André Breton
  • 56. Which painting style did Picasso use for the Woman with a Mantilla in 1917?
A) Surrealist
B) Pointillist
C) Neoclassical
D) Cubist
  • 57. Who was the art patron that hosted Picasso and Khokhlova for their honeymoon?
A) Alice Prin (Kiki de Montparnasse).
B) Eugenia Errázuriz.
C) Sonia Delaunay.
D) Nadezhda von Meck.
  • 58. What was Picasso's age when he received the special honour exhibition at the Louvre?
A) 85
B) 100
C) 90
D) 75
  • 59. Who wrote the catalogue for the 'Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris' exhibition?
A) Henri Matisse
B) Anne Baldassari
C) Jacqueline Picasso
D) Pablo Picasso
  • 60. What prize did Picasso receive from the Soviet government in 1950?
A) The Nobel Peace Prize.
B) The Lenin Peace Prize.
C) The Stalin Peace Prize.
D) The Franco-Russian Art Award.
  • 61. What type of paint did Picasso often use in his paintings?
A) Watercolor
B) Acrylic paint
C) Oil paint
D) Common house paint
  • 62. Which magazine wrote about Picasso's influence during his 1939 retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art?
A) Artforum
B) Time magazine
C) Life magazine
D) The New Yorker
  • 63. How many of his paintings did Picasso assist in putting together for the Avignon Arts Festival?
A) 250
B) 300
C) 201
D) 150
  • 64. What was the name of Picasso's second wife?
A) Jacqueline Roque
B) Dora Maar
C) Olga Khokhlova
D) Marie-Thérèse Walter
  • 65. Which painting by Velázquez did Picasso reinterpret in the 1950s?
A) Las Meninas
B) Rokeby Venus
C) Portrait of Pope Innocent X
D) The Surrender of Breda
  • 66. Who was entrusted by Pablo Picasso to constitute the catalogue raisonné of his work?
A) Mila Gagarin
B) Olga Khokhlova
C) Christian Zervos
D) Françoise Gilot
  • 67. Which city hosted the exhibition 'Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris' in 2010?
A) Seattle, Washington, USA
B) Los Angeles, California, USA
C) New York City, New York, USA
D) Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • 68. Who did Picasso include declarations of his love for in many Cubist works?
A) Olga Khokhlova.
B) Eva Gouel (Marcelle Humbert).
C) Dora Maar.
D) Françoise Gilot.
  • 69. Who was the director of the Avignon Arts Festival that visited Picasso?
A) Jacqueline Roque
B) Jean Cocteau
C) Paul Puaux
D) Henri-Georges Clouzot
  • 70. How much older was Picasso than Françoise Gilot?
A) 30 years
B) 50 years
C) 20 years
D) 40 years
  • 71. Who supervised the publication of 11 additional volumes after Zervos' death?
A) Olga Khokhlova
B) Mila Gagarin
C) Françoise Gilot
D) Jacqueline Roque
  • 72. Which prize did Picasso receive in 1962?
A) The International Artist of the Year Award.
B) The Stalin Peace Prize.
C) The Nobel Peace Prize.
D) The Lenin Peace Prize.
  • 73. Who wrote about Picasso dominating Western art in the 20th century in 1998?
A) Salvador Dalí
B) Robert Hughes
C) John Berger
D) Gertrude Stein
  • 74. How many volumes did Christian Zervos and Mila Gagarin publish for Picasso's complete works?
A) 40 volumes
B) 33 volumes
C) 25 volumes
D) 15 volumes
  • 75. Who declared Picasso as 'one of ours' in 1925?
A) Dora Maar
B) André Breton
C) Francisco Franco
D) Alfred Barr
  • 76. What did Picasso sometimes add to his paint to vary its texture?
A) Sand
B) Acrylic
C) Water
D) Oil
  • 77. Who smuggled bronze to Picasso for his artwork during the war?
A) His friends in the art community.
B) Local black market dealers.
C) German sympathizers.
D) The French Resistance
  • 78. What caused Pablo Picasso's death?
A) A heart attack brought on by pulmonary edema
B) Car accident
C) Stroke
D) Cancer
  • 79. Where were the two Picasso paintings deposited after being sold by the insurance company?
A) Kunstmuseum Basel
B) Louvre Museum, Paris
C) Museo del Prado, Madrid
D) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • 80. Which artistic medium did Picasso continue to use despite German restrictions during World War II?
A) Charcoal drawing
B) Oil painting
C) Watercolor
D) Bronze casting
  • 81. What was the name of the villa where Picasso stayed during his honeymoon?
A) Château de Versailles.
B) Palazzo Pitti.
C) Villa Medici.
D) Villa near Biarritz.
  • 82. In what year was the Chicago Picasso sculpture unveiled?
A) 1955
B) 1973
C) 1967
D) 1960
  • 83. What was the height of the public sculpture commissioned for Chicago?
A) 40-foot-high (12 m)
B) 60-foot-high (18 m)
C) 30-foot-high (9 m)
D) 50-foot-high (15 m)
  • 84. Until what year was Guernica entrusted to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City?
A) 1960
B) 1975
C) 1981
D) 1945
  • 85. Which art movement was later seen as prefigured by Picasso's late works?
A) Neo-Expressionism
B) Surrealism
C) Cubism
D) Abstract Expressionism
  • 86. How much was Picasso's estate valued at when settled in 1976?
A) $240 million
B) $1 billion
C) $500 million
D) $100 million
  • 87. In which year did Pablo Picasso receive a special honour exhibition at the Louvre Museum in Paris?
A) 1998
B) 1939
C) 1954
D) 1971
  • 88. What was Picasso considered by his friends during the 1939 retrospective?
A) The greatest artist alive
B) An ordinary painter
C) A corrupting influence
D) A minor figure in art
  • 89. How many poems did Picasso write between 1935 and 1959?
A) More than 300
B) Less than 100
C) Exactly 200
D) Over 500
  • 90. Who was Picasso's 'Golden muse' that he met in 1927?
A) Dora Maar
B) Marie-Thérèse Walter
C) Olga Khokhlova
D) Fernande Olivier
  • 91. What concept defined in the Manifeste du surréalisme did Picasso not fully embrace?
A) Psychic automatism in its pure state
B) Primitivism
C) Neoclassicism
D) Cubism
  • 92. In what year was Claude Picasso born?
A) 1947
B) 1950
C) 1945
D) 1949
  • 93. Where was the Museum Picasso Eugenio Arias' Collection established?
A) Madrid
B) Barcelona
C) Seville
D) Buitrago del Lozoya
  • 94. What title was Picasso given by the city of Basel?
A) Mayor for life
B) Honorary citizen
C) Artistic director
D) Cultural ambassador
  • 95. In which year did Picasso's children gain full legal rights to use the name Picasso?
A) 1973
B) 1961
C) 1955
D) 1986
  • 96. According to the text, who had more influence on nominally vanguard art over the past 30 years than Picasso?
A) Marcel Duchamp
B) Salvador Dalí
C) Pablo Picasso
D) Henri Matisse
  • 97. Which painting by Picasso was analyzed using a nanoprobe in 2012?
A) Girl before a Mirror (1932)
B) The Red Armchair (1931)
C) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)
D) Guernica (1937)
  • 98. In which year did Picasso marry Olga Khokhlova?
A) 1941
B) 1923
C) 1935
D) 1918
  • 99. In which city was the 3rd Sculpture International held where Picasso exhibited in 1949?
A) Paris
B) Philadelphia
C) Chicago
D) New York
  • 100. How long was Picasso's affair with Geneviève Laporte?
A) Two years
B) One year
C) Six weeks
D) Three months
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