Can You Match These Lesser-Known Paintings to Their Artists?

Question: Which artist, inspired by late-night Top 100 TV shows and best-seller lists, painted The Hip One Hundred (1998)?

Answer: Inspired by late-night Top 100 TV shows and best-seller lists, Peter Davies painted The Hip One Hundred  (1998) and other chart-centric pieces.

Question: Which artist created I’m in the Mood for Love (1961), which incorporates handwritten text and stencilled letters and numerals recalling graffiti?

Answer: David Hockney’s I’m in the Mood for Love (1961) incorporates handwritten text and stencilled letters and numerals recalling graffiti.

Question: The Death of Nelson (1952) was painted by which British Neo-Romantic artist?

Answer: The Death of Nelson  (1952) was painted by the British Neo-Romantic artist John Minton. Minton’s painting is a reworking of a famous fresco in the House of Lords, made by 19th-century history painter Daniel Maclise. 

Question: Which artist, who was tutored by Henri Matisse, painted Boats in the Harbor, Collioure (1905)?

Answer: André Derain painted Boats in the Harbor, Collioure in the summer of 1905, when Derain, together with his tutor Henri Matisse, worked in a small Mediterranean fishing port near the Spanish border. 

Question: Which emerging artist painted Christ at Emmaus (1963) as a student at the Royal College of Art in London?

Answer: Patrick Caulfield painted Christ at Emmaus (1963) as a student at the Royal College of Art in London. Along with many of his peers, Caulfield was drawn toward Pop art, and this work has Pop’s characteristic impersonal flatness and graphic aesthetic.

Question: Which artist combines elements of Expressionism and conceptual art in Young Boys (1993)?

Answer: Marlene Dumas combines elements of Expressionism and conceptual art in Young Boys (1993) and other work. In her often-disturbing work, Dumas insists on confronting difficult subjects such as childhood abuse and the sexual exploitation of women.

Question: Which artist, who painted Fingering Vanitas (2015), described the choice to use her own image in her work as a way to “have imagery in the world that reflected [her] identity”?

Answer: Mequitta Ahuja, painter of Fingering Vanitas (2015) described the choice to use her own image in her work as a way to “have imagery in the world that reflected [her] identity.” Fingering Vanitas was first exhibited as a part of a series of allegorical paintings that were conceived to go beyond the self-portrait, to reflect on the act of painting itself.

Question: Which Pop artist painted Drinka Pinta Milka (1962), a work that referred to a long-running Cadbury’s ad?

Answer: Derek Boshier Drinka Pinta Milka  (1962) referenced a long-running Cadbury’s ad that featured the much-remembered but meaningless slogan “a glass and a half of full cream milk per half pound.”

Question: Which Belgian-born artist, one of the youngest artists ever to have a solo show at the Tate Modern, painted Within (2001)?

Answer: Belgian-born and British-based artist Luc Tuymans, one of the youngest artists ever to have a solo show at the Tate Modern, painted Within (2001).