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