Which 1934 Max Ernst collage novel consists of 182 images made from Victorian illustrations?
Answer
Une semaine de bonté
85 Surrealism In Art Trivia Questions with Answers
85 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What is the title of Salvador Dalí’s 1936 painting of soft beans linked to the Spanish Civil War?
Answer
Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War)
Which artist created the 1936 sculpture Lobster Telephone?
Answer
Salvador Dalí
Which 1947 Leonora Carrington painting is titled The Giantess?
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The Giantess
Which 1929 René Magritte painting is titled The Treachery of Images?
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The Treachery of Images
Which 1938 exhibition in Paris was titled Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme?
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Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme
Which 1937 Surrealist painting by Wolfgang Paalen shows a crystal landscape?
Answer
Pays interdit
Which artist created the 1929 painting The Accommodations of Desire?
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Salvador Dalí
What was the name of the 1938 Paris exhibition that united international Surrealists?
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Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme
Which Paris art gallery hosted the first Surrealist exhibition in 1925?
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Galerie Pierre
Who founded the Surrealist movement by publishing the 1924 Surrealist Manifesto?
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André Breton
Which 1929 René Magritte painting shows a pipe above the words “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”?
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The Treachery of Images
Which 1957 painting by Remedios Varo shows a cloaked figure creating birds from musical notes?
Answer
Creation of the Birds
What name did Salvador Dalí give his 1930s paranoiac-critical method of creating art?
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Paranoiac-critical method
Which 1928 Surrealist film by Germaine Dulac is based on a screenplay by Antonin Artaud?
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The Seashell and the Clergyman
Who created the 1929 Surrealist film Un Chien Andalou with Salvador Dalí?
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Luis Buñuel
Which 1929 Salvador Dalí painting is titled The Great Masturbator?
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The Great Masturbator
Which 1938 Salvador Dalí artwork combines a telephone receiver with a lobster?
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Lobster Telephone
Which 1923 Man Ray artwork is a metronome with a photograph of an eye attached to it?
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Object to Be Destroyed
Which 1917 play by Guillaume Apollinaire introduced the word “Surrealism”?
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Les Mamelles de Tirésias
Which 1962 Luis Buñuel film traps wealthy dinner guests in a room they cannot leave?
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The Exterminating Angel
Which Surrealist artist painted The Giantess, also known as The Guardian of the Egg, in 1947?
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Leonora Carrington
Who invented decalcomania as a Surrealist painting technique in the 1930s?
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Oscar Domínguez
What is the name of the Surrealist drawing game in which players hide earlier contributions?
Answer
Exquisite corpse
Which 1936 exhibition in London was the first International Surrealist Exhibition in Britain?
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The International Surrealist Exhibition
What 1913 Marcel Duchamp artwork is widely regarded as the first readymade?
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Bicycle Wheel
Which 1924–25 Joan Miró painting depicts a colorful imaginary world known as the Carnival of Harlequin?
Answer
The Harlequin's Carnival
Which 1927 René Magritte painting depicts a murder scene interrupted by three observers?
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The Menaced Assassin
Which 1938 painting by Leonora Carrington is titled Self-Portrait (Inn of the Dawn Horse)?
Answer
Self-Portrait (Inn of the Dawn Horse)
Which 1924 book by André Breton formally defined the principles of Surrealism?
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The First Surrealist Manifesto
Which 1938 René Magritte painting shows a steam locomotive emerging from a fireplace?
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Time Transfixed
What is the title of Salvador Dalí’s 1944 painting of a sleeping woman supported by a horse, a tiger and a pomegranate?
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Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening
Which 1937 René Magritte painting shows a man facing a mirror that reflects the back of his head?
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Not to Be Reproduced
Which 1936 exhibition in London was organized by Roland Penrose and Herbert Read as a major international Surrealist show?
Answer
The International Surrealist Exhibition
Which 1935 René Magritte painting shows a large eye reflecting a cloudy sky?
Answer
The False Mirror
Which 1937 Salvador Dalí painting depicts a desert landscape with a soft, burning giraffe?
Answer
The Burning Giraffe