Final Quiz Modern and Contemporary Still Life – Art of the Everyday

Which organisation established the hierarchy of painting genres (in which Still Life came last) in the 17th century?

Académie des Beaux-Arts British School in Rome The Bauhaus Royal College of Art, London

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Which of the following is not a category of still life?

Flower paintings Portraits Food and drink Household objects

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Where were these paintings of fruit, bread, eggs and fish found in Ancient Egypt around 1400 BCE?

In a Book of the Dead On Tutankhamun’s mask In an ancient marketplace On the walls of the Tomb of Menna

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Still Life as a theme and subject in contemporary art…

Lives on by transforming objects in interesting ways Has stopped completely Is unpopular Is only about books

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According to Marcel Duchamp and likeminded artists, anything could be used to make art because...

They hated using paint It was cheaper If they said it was art, it was art Other people said it was not art

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What does ‘Natura Morta’, the Italian word for Still Life, mean?

Everyday life Dead Nature Quiet life Dead animals

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Which artists took Pop Art to a whole new level by making everyday objects into sculptures on a superhuman scale?

Peter Fischli and David Weiss Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Broggen Gilbert and George Jane and Louise Wilson

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Which of the following artists pioneered using found objects like newspapers and wallpaper to make collages?

Pablo Picasso Andy Warhol Dorothea Tanning Leonardo da Vinci

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What was the name of the British Pop Art group that emerged in the 1950s?

The Popular Artists The Independent Group The Dependent Group The Pop Artists

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Artists such as Damien Hirst still make artwork about death and mortality. They are modern day versions of the still life theme...

Readymades Genre painting Vanitas and Memento Mori Found objects

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Which of the following objects would represent the fleeting nature of life in a vanitas or memento mori painting?

A map A cat A tapestry An hourglass

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By including everyday materials and subjects like comics, movies and product packaging, Pop artists were trying to:

Break down the boundaries between high and low art Make people read comics Write pop songs Show an imaginary world

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