Art Challenge – Test Your Knowledge of Famous Painters

Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) was a Spanish painter and the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal. He was an individualistic artist of the Baroque period who had a remarkable power of observation in portraying both the living model and still life.

Joan Miró (1893-1983) was a Catalan artist who combined abstract art with Surrealist fantasy. His mature style evolved from the tension between his fanciful, poetic impulse and his vision of the harshness of modern life.

Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 -1901) was a French painter and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the sometimes decadent affairs of those times.

Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was a painter who was an important leader in the development of modern abstract art and a major exponent of the Dutch abstract art movement known as De Stijl (“The Style”). In his mature paintings, Mondrian used the simplest combinations of straight lines, right angles, primary colours, and black, white, and gray.

Max Ernst (1891-1976) was a German painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism in Europe.

René François Ghislain Magritte (1889-1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions about the nature and boundaries of reality and representation.

Bruegel the Elder (1525-1569) was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes.

William Turner (1775-1851) was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolorist. He is known for his expressive coloring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings.

Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) was a French Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens’s highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style.

Botticelli (1445-1510) was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli’s posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century, when he was rediscovered by the Pre-Raphaelites who stimulated a reappraisal of his work.

Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) was a French artist and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. Toward the end of his career, he became increasingly interested in painting pure landscapes.

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation and influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century, whose work formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and early 20th century Cubism.

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor who sought to achieve a “primitive” expression of spiritual and emotional states in his work. The artist is particularly well known for his creative relationship with Vincent van Gogh as well as for his self-imposed exile in Tahiti, French Polynesia.