Final Quiz Contemporary Art - Art Explora Academy

Pierre Soulages named his totally black paintings …

Mega-blacks++ Ultra-blacks Outrenoirs Metablacks

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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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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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Artist Sophie Calle often tells stories …

Leaving free rein to her imagination. Of which she is the main subject. related to night and sleeping. That are highly documented, on the ways of life of the peoples across the world.

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To paint, Jackson Pollock practised the technique of …

Dripping Splashing Pouring Flowing

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According to the painter de Kooning, which artist opened up the way for all the abstract Expressionists?

Frank Stella Louise Bourgeois Mark Rothko Jackson Pollock

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In her first artistic performance, The Sleepers, Sophie Calle …

Invited 28 people to sleep in her bed in turn and took photographs of them. Stayed in bed day and night for 3 months, continuously filmed. Turned up the volume of the music every night to prevent the neighbours from sleeping Sneaked into her friends’ bedrooms during the night to take photos of them.

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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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The term “pop” in the Pop Art movement means …

Populist Fireman Pompous Popular

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

Deconstructions Constructions Implants Installations

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