Test Your Aesthetics Knowledge

Put your knowledge of aesthetics to the test with these 12 questions on the philosophy of beauty and art!

published on August 23
1/12

Who is known for defining art as 'the expression of emotions'?

Who is known for defining art as 'the expression of emotions'?
Plato
Kant
Tolstoy
Wittgenstein
2/12

Which art movement rejected traditional forms in favor of abstraction?

Surrealism
Cubism
Abstract Expressionism
Dadaism
3/12

Who wrote 'The Birth of Tragedy' and discussed the Apollonian and Dionysian elements in art?

Martin Heidegger
Arthur Schopenhauer
Friedrich Nietzsche
Immanuel Kant
4/12

Which philosopher emphasized the concept of 'sublime beauty' in his aesthetics?

David Hume
Jean-Paul Sartre
Edmund Burke
John Dewey
5/12

Who coined the term 'aesthetic distance' in relation to art appreciation?

Who coined the term 'aesthetic distance' in relation to art appreciation?
Arthur Danto
Theodor Adorno
Claudia Card
Victor Shklovsky
6/12

Which artist is associated with the concept of 'readymades' in art?

Which artist is associated with the concept of 'readymades' in art?
Yoko Ono
Damien Hirst
Marcel Duchamp
Yves Klein
7/12

Who is known for the 'less is more' philosophy in design and architecture?

Mies van der Rohe
Frank Gehry
Rem Koolhaas
Zaha Hadid
8/12

Which artist is famous for his paintings featuring melting clocks?

Pablo Picasso
Salvador Dali
Joan Miro
Frida Kahlo
9/12

Who wrote 'The Birth of the Clinic' and discussed the relationship between aesthetics and medicine?

Michel Foucault
Jacques Derrida
Jean Baudrillard
Julia Kristeva
10/12

Which philosopher emphasized the concept of 'formalism' in art appreciation?

Which philosopher emphasized the concept of 'formalism' in art appreciation?
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Emanuel Swedenborg
Roger Scruton
Clive Bell
11/12

Who is considered the founder of the Bauhaus school of design?

Who is considered the founder of the Bauhaus school of design?
Walter Gropius
Le Corbusier
Alvar Aalto
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
12/12

Which art movement sought to break away from traditional rules and embrace individual expression?

Impressionism
Realism
Expressionism
Rococo