🎨 Art and colors trivia for kids - painters and mixing

Kids 6-12 and families 12 questions

Grab your imaginary paintbrush! This quiz is about mixing colors and the famous artists who painted some of the world's best-known pictures.

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Which of these is a primary color in painting?

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Which of these is a primary color in painting?
Answer: Blue. The painter's primary colors are red, yellow and blue.
What color do you get when you mix blue and yellow paint?
Answer: Green. Blue and yellow make green.
What color do you get when you mix red and white paint?
Answer: Pink. Adding white to red makes it lighter - pink!
Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci painted it in the early 1500s.
Which painting did Vincent van Gogh make?
Answer: The Starry Night. "The Starry Night" shows a swirling night sky over a village.
Who painted "The Scream"?
Answer: Edvard Munch. Edvard Munch was a painter from Norway.
In which museum can you see the Mona Lisa?
Answer: The Louvre in Paris. The Mona Lisa hangs in the Louvre, behind protective glass.
Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Answer: Michelangelo. Michelangelo painted it lying and standing on tall scaffolding.
On the color wheel, which color is opposite red?
Answer: Green. Red and green are complementary colors, so they sit opposite each other.
Which artist is famous for cubism, painting people with shapes and angles?
Answer: Pablo Picasso. Picasso helped invent cubism with his friend Georges Braque.
Claude Monet is famous for painting lots of...
Answer: Water lilies. Monet painted the water lilies in his garden pond many times.
What do you usually get if you mix red, yellow and blue paint together?
Answer: A dark brown. Mixing all three primary paints makes a muddy brown.

Quick answers

Which of these is a primary color in painting?

Blue. The painter's primary colors are red, yellow and blue.

What color do you get when you mix blue and yellow paint?

Green. Blue and yellow make green.

What color do you get when you mix red and white paint?

Pink. Adding white to red makes it lighter - pink!

Who painted the Mona Lisa?

Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci painted it in the early 1500s.

Which painting did Vincent van Gogh make?

The Starry Night. "The Starry Night" shows a swirling night sky over a village.

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