Belgium's quirky obsession with surrealism
- 1. Who is considered the father of Belgian surrealism?
A) Salvador Dalí
B) Joan Miró
C) Pablo Picasso
D) René Magritte
- 2. Where is the Magritte Museum located?
A) Brussels
B) Ghent
C) Bruges
D) Antwerp
- 3. Which famous surrealist painting features a pipe inscribed with the words 'Ceci n'est pas une pipe'?
A) Guernica
B) The Persistence of Memory
C) The Treachery of Images
D) The Son of Man
- 4. What year did René Magritte die?
A) 1954
B) 1967
C) 1983
D) 1975
- 5. Which famous surrealist artist was born in Ostend, Belgium?
A) Salvador Dalí
B) Frida Kahlo
C) James Ensor
D) Pablo Picasso
- 6. In the surrealist manifesto, who is nicknamed 'The Pope of Surrealism'?
A) Pablo Picasso
B) Joan Miró
C) Salvador Dalí
D) André Breton
- 7. Which Belgian city is known as the birthplace of artist René Magritte?
A) Lessines
B) Ixelles
C) Tournai
D) Schaerbeek
- 8. What is the title of René Magritte's famous painting of a bowler-hatted man with an apple hiding his face?
A) The Persistence of Memory
B) Guernica
C) The Treachery of Images
D) The Son of Man
- 9. Who said 'Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision'?
A) André Breton
B) Salvador Dalí
C) Pablo Picasso
D) Joan Miró
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