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1. What name is given to the Japanese art of paper folding?
 
Bonsai
Haiku
Ikebana
Origami

Ikebana is flower arranging
 
 
2. What term was coined by American art critic Harold Rosenberg in 1952 to describe the technique used by Jackson Pollock and others?
 
Action painting
Daub painting
Smear painting
Splash painting
 
 
3. John Constable's 1821 painting The Hay Wain depicts a cart crossing which East Anglian river?
 
River Blyth
River Dove
River Orwell
River Stour
 
 
4. The English painters John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt founded which art movement?
 
The Pre-Raphaelites
The Pre-Reformation
The Pre-Renaissance
The Pre-Romantics
 
 
5. Which English sculptor was born in Castleford, Yorkshire in 1898?
 
Alfred Gilbert
Barbara Hepworth
Jessie Lipscomb
Henry Moore

Hepworth was born in Wakefield in 1903
 
 
6. What is the name of Salvador Dali's 1931 painting featuring the famous 'melting clocks'?
 
The Paradox of Memory
The Persistence of Memory
The Phenomenon of Memory
The Plasticity of Memory

It's also been known as Soft Watches and Droopy Watches
 
 
7. What nationality was the graphic artist M C Escher, whose works often contained mathematically impossible constructions?
 
Austrian
Belgian
Dutch
German
 
 
8. Which French artist painted A Bar at the Folies-Bergere in 1882?
 
Paul Gauguin
Edouard Manet
Claude Monet
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

For sharp-eyed English beer lovers, a couple of bottles of Bass can be seen
 
 
9. The Tate Gallery opened its second regional gallery in 1993 in which Cornish seaside town?
 
Newquay
Padstow
Penzance
St Ives
 
 
10. Clarice Cliff made her name in the 20th century in which branch of the arts?
 
Ceramics
Drawing
Painting
Sculpture
 
 
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