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1. Which US landscape painter visited the Northumberland coastal village of Cullercoats between 1881 and 1882?
 
Wesley Homer
Winslow Homer
Homer Wesley
Homer Winslow
 

 
2. Which creature features in the 1991 work by Damien Hurst titled The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living?
 
A pig
A shark
A sheep
A vole
 

 
3. What name is given to the style of painting in which small distinct points of primary colours are used to generate the impression of secondary colours?
 
Pointerism
Pointillism
Pointism
Pointoverism
 

 
4. Who became the first president of the Royal Academy in 1769?
 
Thomas Gainsborough
Francis Hayman
Joshua Reynolds
George Stubbs
 

 
5. What is the name of the 1940 work by Salvador Dali in which a disembodied face hovers over a desert landscape?
 
The Face of War
The Fallacy of War
The Fantasy of War
The Future of War
 

 
6. Which former England wicket keeper-turned artist bought a property in Chipping Sodbury in 1994 which is now an art gallery bearing his name?
 
Alan Knott
Jack Russell
Alec Stewart
Bob Taylor
 

 
7. In which Italian city is the Uffizi Gallery?
 
Florence
Rome
Turin
Venice

It was built between 1560 and 1581 as the offices for the Florentine magistrates
 

 
8. Which radical femist shot Andy Warhol in 1968?
 
Andrea Dworkin
Melissa Farley
Robin Morgan
Valerie Solanas

She shot him three times in his studio, The Factory
 

 
9. What colour pigment is obtained from the rock lapis lazuli?
 
Red
Yellow
Green
Blue
 

 
10. What is the name of the plasticine figure created by TV artist and presenter Tony Hart in 1977?
 
Mephisto
Miffy
Morph
Muffy

Morph sadly perished in the 2005 Aardman Animations fire
 

 
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