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