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Beyond the Brushstroke: A Hard Painting Inquiry

Challenge your expertise with six demanding questions about painting history, techniques, and analysis.

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Quiz Questions

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1
Which of these iconic paintings, completed in 1432, has been the subject of the most documented thefts and is considered the most frequently stolen artwork in history?
Question 1
2
A critic, upon seeing an exhibition in 1905, derogatorily called the artists 'fauves' (wild beasts). Which of the following paintings is most definitively a product of that Fauvist movement?
Question 2
3
In technical art analysis, what does the term 'pentimento' specifically describe?
Question 3
4
Which of the following monumental 20th-century paintings, serving as a potent anti-war symbol, was specifically created for the Spanish Pavilion at the 1937 Paris International Exposition?
Question 4
5
What is a famously meticulous and symbolically loaded detail found in Jan van Eyck's 'Arnolfini Portrait' (1434)?
Question 5
6
Whose mid-19th century work is most frequently cited by art historians as a direct and major precursor to both Impressionism and later abstract expressionist painting, due to its emphasis on light and loose brushwork over precise form?
Question 6

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