Quizzes and Riddles

“...Something pointless and out of fashion”, you've probably heard in a well-known song. But then everything spun into quite a dashing plot. We also created a test for you here. Try to guess the artist who depicted this or that hat. And maybe you’ll look out a suitable design for your summer hat.

Sometimes artists are ahead of their time. Or they flirt with the past. And then it is difficult to determine the age of the work without looking into the catalogue or museum plate under the picture. However, we believe in you – you just got to try!

This is a win-win test of your knowledge of the artist’s life and work. In the final, you will receive a tip from Leonardo. While in the process, you’ll enjoy: either your own success, or the fact that you learn something new. Let’s get started!

Kazimir Malevich is remembered in art history as the inventor of Suprematism. On his way to the Black Square, he tried himself in many other art movements as well. And even after, Malevich kept on experimenting. We will show you 20 pictures. Only 10 of them are by Malevich. Your task is to find out the paintings executed by Kazimir Malevich.

A real painter is always looking for a suitable sitter. It is much easier if an artist is a parent, as the suitable models run nearby. Moreover, they are constantly running... But if only they ran! They strive to unscrew something or to break it off! Therefore, the artist says to his child who acts as a model: "Sit quietly for at least half an hour!" And he clutches at paints, pencils, pastels, and starts drawing... Let`s see if you can identify the right pair: portraitist - his child?

If people traditionally try to smile in photographs, still in paintings you will not often see a cheerful facial expression, not to mention a laughing subject. Although, the exceptions do exist! You will hardly find a person who can not recognize the smile of Gioconda. Can you identify the author of the painting by its detail with a smiling subject?

For a long time, women were only painted by male painters. Ladies could not study at an art academy or paint nudity. "Women's" genres were just still life and landscape. The situation persisted until the middle of the XIX century, when painters and paintresses equaled at least in the choice of their subjects. A seductive, playful, but now also strong, confident woman has become different on both sides of the canvas. Turn on your intuition and guess who painted these female images - a painter or a paintress.

In this quiz, there will be no immense Dutch bouquets with dozens of various plants. Just one flower per one still life. Your task is to specify its name.

These women potty-trained future geniuses, fed them with porridge, bought them their first pencils. Certainly, the sons made their portraits. You need to guess whose mother is depicted on each of the ten.

What did the progressive American artists mean? Here we have 12 paintings with unclear content. Fortunately, the authors gave the pictures names to explain everythng! You just have to choose the right version of the title of each piece.

They were the first admired spectators, the first hard critics and favourite models of the artists. They did not understand them and supported them, they calmed them down and were angry with them, they reconciled with their poverty and enjoyed their glory with their husbands. They all have one similar feature: they have always been painted for love. Can you guess where is the wife of Rubens, Cezanne or Monet?

Children are the subjects of all the paintings in this quiz. Take it to check out if you can say that the questions were childish!

Pieter Bruegel the Elder is one of the most recognizable and original masters in the history of art. From two similar paintings (or their details) choose the one executed by Bruegel.

“The more I live, the more I regret how little I know,” Claude Monet once said tying to measure the immeasurable. In this quiz you have a chance to see how well you know Monet by answering twelve 'how many' questions about the life of a great Impressionist. Good luck!

Impressionism is associated with an instant impression, light, colored shadows, separate brushstrokes, and France. Expressionism implies the artist's experiences, broken gestures, defiantly bright or dirty-dark colors, and the associations take us to Germany and Austria. But is it really simple to identify a particular painting? Are you sure that you will not confuse Monet and Schiele?

“Му five-year-old nephew/grandchild/neighbor`s son could do that,” a comment like that would have been a chart topper of reaction to art works that do not fit in with the conservative art views. Well, can you unmistakably identify which picture had already taken its rightful place at a museum and which one still is kept in a home folder among other treasures? Child’s drawings for the experiment were provided by the Arthive team members.

Sometimes artists come up with strange, unexpected and unusual names for their works, inviting the viewer to unravel the hidden associations between the title and the image. Sometimes on the canvases there are clues that make it possible to understand the course of artist's thought - and it turns deciphering into an intriguing game. Let’s begin!

To mark the beginning of the harvest season, Arthive prepared a special fruit-and-vegetable test for you. The task is very simple: we show you a painting, which depicts a vegetable or fruit (or an edible plant), and you have to guess what it is. But be careful: apples are not always what they seem, and painting is not just Realism!

This quiz is rather simple. You don’t need special knowledge to answer the following 15 questions. It is enough to recall your school lessons of history and literature. Let`s try it!

There were nobody in the twentieth century who captured the spirit of the New World in such a full, varied and fun way as the cult artist Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), a long-time illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post, Dickens of the Pencil and Brushes, the greatest expert on the American mentality. Decide what happens on Rockwell illustrations - and find out what percentage of you are American.