Final Quiz Contemporary Art - Art Explora Academy

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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How did artist Damien Hirst develop his fascination with death?

After a near-death experience. By working at the morgue. By moving close to a cemetery. When his mother died.

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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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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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The artist Frank Stella is part of the … movement

Minimalist Pop Art New Realism From conceptual art

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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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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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In his works of art, the artist Gerhard Richter particularly addressed the issue of ………

The meaning of existence. The body in the art of performance. The importance of gestures in painting. Use of video images.

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Louise Bourgeois’s giant spiders represent …

Her father Herself Her favourite pet Her mother

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New Realism is a ……… movement

French American German Switzerland

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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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Op Art was headed up by …

Bridget Riley Victor Vasarely Julio Le Parc Kehinde Wiley

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