Female Artists Quiz: Painters and Sculptors Who Made History

This female artists quiz celebrates painters and sculptors who changed art history, including Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Artemisia Gentileschi, Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, Hilma af Klint, Yayoi Kusama and Louise Bourgeois. Ten questions, 90 seconds.

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Mexico
Which Mexican artist is famous for her vivid self-portraits and her marriage to muralist Diego Rivera?
America
Which American artist is known for huge close-up flowers and the landscapes of New Mexico?
Baroque
Which Italian Baroque painter created the dramatic Judith Slaying Holofernes?
Impressionism
Which American Impressionist, based in Paris, is famous for paintings of mothers and children?
Japan
Which Japanese artist is famous for polka dots and mirrored Infinity Rooms?
Sculpture
Louise Bourgeois created Maman, a giant sculpture of which creature?
Abstraction
Which Swedish painter created abstract works before Kandinsky but asked that they stay hidden for 20 years after her death?
Impressionism
French Impressionist Berthe Morisot married the brother of which painter?
Portraits
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun was the favorite portrait painter of which French queen?
Animals
Rosa Bonheur's famous painting The Horse Fair hangs in which New York museum?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Which Mexican artist is famous for her vivid self-portraits and her marriage to muralist Diego Rivera?
Answer: Frida Kahlo
About a third of Kahlo's paintings are self-portraits. Many reflect the pain she lived with after a bus accident at age 18.
Q2: Which American artist is known for huge close-up flowers and the landscapes of New Mexico?
Answer: Georgia O'Keeffe
O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 sold for 44.4 million dollars in 2014, a record for a female artist at the time.
Q3: Which Italian Baroque painter created the dramatic Judith Slaying Holofernes?
Answer: Artemisia Gentileschi
Artemisia Gentileschi was the first woman admitted to Florence's Academy of the Arts of Drawing, in 1616.
Q4: Which American Impressionist, based in Paris, is famous for paintings of mothers and children?
Answer: Mary Cassatt
Cassatt was invited to exhibit with the Impressionists by Edgar Degas. She also helped American collectors buy Impressionist art.
Q5: Which Japanese artist is famous for polka dots and mirrored Infinity Rooms?
Answer: Yayoi Kusama
Kusama, born in 1929, has used dots since childhood. Her yellow pumpkin sculptures are among the most photographed artworks in the world.
Q6: Louise Bourgeois created Maman, a giant sculpture of which creature?
Answer: A spider
Maman stands more than 9 meters tall. Bourgeois said the spider honored her mother, a weaver who repaired tapestries.
Q7: Which Swedish painter created abstract works before Kandinsky but asked that they stay hidden for 20 years after her death?
Answer: Hilma af Klint
Hilma af Klint's spiritual abstract paintings began in 1906. A major 2018 show at the Guggenheim in New York drew record crowds.
Q8: French Impressionist Berthe Morisot married the brother of which painter?
Answer: Édouard Manet
Morisot married Eugène Manet in 1874. She exhibited in seven of the eight Impressionist exhibitions.
Q9: Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun was the favorite portrait painter of which French queen?
Answer: Marie Antoinette
Vigée Le Brun painted Marie Antoinette many times. She fled France during the Revolution and worked across Europe.
Q10: Rosa Bonheur's famous painting The Horse Fair hangs in which New York museum?
Answer: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bonheur was the most famous female painter of the 19th century. She received special police permission to wear trousers while sketching at horse markets.

Female Artists Quiz – Women Who Shaped Art History

For centuries, women artists faced huge obstacles. They were often barred from art academies, kept out of life-drawing classes and left out of history books. Yet many of them created brilliant work that is now celebrated in the world's greatest museums. This quiz looks at some of the painters and sculptors who broke through and changed how we see art.

In the Renaissance and Baroque periods, artists such as Sofonisba Anguissola and Artemisia Gentileschi won fame in Italy. Gentileschi painted powerful biblical heroines with dramatic light and became the first woman in Florence's art academy. In France, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun painted Marie Antoinette, and Rosa Bonheur became famous for her animal paintings.

The Impressionists included several leading women. Berthe Morisot showed in nearly all of their exhibitions, and Mary Cassatt, an American in Paris, painted tender scenes of family life. In the 20th century, Frida Kahlo turned her life and pain into bold self-portraits, Georgia O'Keeffe painted giant flowers and desert landscapes, and Hilma af Klint quietly invented abstract painting.

Modern artists have pushed even further. Louise Bourgeois built giant spider sculptures, Yayoi Kusama covered rooms in dots and mirrors, and many others now rank among the most influential living artists. Museums and collectors have spent recent decades rediscovering women who were overlooked, and prices for their work have risen sharply.

This quiz covers the lives and works of famous female artists.

What This Quiz Teaches

This quiz is ideal for art lovers, students and museum visitors.

Which female artists led major art movements
The stories behind famous paintings and sculptures
How women artists overcame barriers
Which artists painted queens and Impressionist scenes
Who pioneered abstract art
What makes modern artists like Kusama so popular

Quick Facts About Female Artists

Sofonisba Anguissola served as a court painter to King Philip II of Spain.
Frida Kahlo was the first 20th-century Mexican artist to have a work bought by the Louvre.
Georgia O'Keeffe has her own museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Barbara Hepworth was a leading British modern sculptor.
Tamara de Lempicka's glamorous portraits defined the Art Deco style.
Yayoi Kusama has a museum in Tokyo devoted to her work.