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What technique defines the art style known as Pointillism?

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  1. 1 Easy

    How many varieties of Campbell's Soup did Andy Warhol paint?

    Answer: Thirty-two

    Why: At the Ferus Gallery in 1962 the canvases sat on shelf-like ledges, and dealer Irving Blum bought the whole set for 1,000 dollars.

  2. 2 Medium

    What do ants symbolize in Salvador Dali's surrealist paintings?

    Answer: Decay and death

    Why: Dali traced the motif to a childhood bat he found crawling with ants; they also swarm a hand in the 1929 film Un Chien Andalou.

  3. 3 Hard

    Why did the Mona Lisa become world-famous in 1911?

    Answer: It was stolen

    Why: Vincenzo Peruggia, who had worked at the Louvre, carried it out under his smock, and for two years crowds came to stare at the empty wall.

  4. 4 Easy

    Why does the Mona Lisa appear to have no eyebrows or eyelashes?

    Answer: They faded from over-cleaning

    Why: Vasari described her eyebrows as lifelike, and multispectral scans presented in 2007 found the trace of one painted brow hair.

  5. 5 Medium

    Who was the model for Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring?

    Answer: Nobody knows

    Why: It is a tronie, a study of a character type rather than a portrait, and that outsized pearl was probably imitation glass.

  6. 6 Hard

    Why did Caravaggio have to flee Rome in 1606?

    Answer: He killed someone

    Why: A papal sentence made him an outlaw anywhere the Pope ruled, so he painted on the run in Naples, Malta and Sicily until his death in 1610.