Final Quiz Contemporary Art - Art Explora Academy

Op Art consisted in …

Creating works in a highly spontaneous, improvised manner. Using forms and colours to create optical illusions. Creating works under the influence of opium. Dismantling everyday objects and exhibiting the pieces as objects of art.

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What has changed in sculpture compared with installations?

The sculptures may no longer be moved, now that they are installed. An installation is always a combination of several media: sound, images, lights... The work is also created to change our perception of the place where it is presented. The work must be exhibited and viewed in a gallery.

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Works by Arman, an iconic New Realist artist, are largely based on …

The re-use of objects. Monochrome. Classical painting techniques. The arts of fire.

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Who does the photographer Cindy Sherman use as a model most of the time?

Her partner. Her artist friends. A rag doll. Herself.

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Op Art was headed up by …

Bridget Riley Victor Vasarely Julio Le Parc Kehinde Wiley

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Arte Povera artists created …

Works that are sold at a low price. In community. Using very little resources. In a very short time.

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From the 60s onwards, sculpture changed, taking the form of …

Deconstructions Constructions Implants Installations

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The artist Frank Stella is part of the … movement

Minimalist Pop Art New Realism From conceptual art

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Several buildings in Paris such as the Philharmonic Orchestra building or the Quai-Branly Museum, are the work of architect …

Frank Lloyd Wright Le Corbusier Zaha Hadid Jean Nouvel

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According to its founder, Pierre Restany, New Realism is …

"A power that has a purpose and must serve the evolution and refinement of the human" “A poetic recycling of urban, industrial and advertising reality”. “A great destructive, negative work to be done”. “A new beauty, the beauty of speed.”

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The artist Yves Klein has given his name to …

Yves Saint-Laurent’s company, of which he was co-founder. The blue that he patented under the name International Klein Blue. A big American off-the-peg brand. The Pompidou centre, renamed “Georges Pompidou-Yves Klein Museum.”

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To paint, Jackson Pollock practised the technique of …

Dripping Splashing Pouring Flowing

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