Final Quiz Contemporary Art - Art Explora Academy

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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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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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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Pierre Soulages named his totally black paintings …

Mega-blacks++ Ultra-blacks Outrenoirs Metablacks

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During the 100 most prized artists in 2019 we find …

Only 8 women. Only 12 women. Only 23 women. 99 women.

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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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New Realism is a ……… movement

French American German Switzerland

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The artist Jeff Koons is an heir of …

Pop Art Abstract Expressionism New Realism From Arte Povera.

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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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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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Louise Bourgeois’s giant spiders represent …

Her father Herself Her favourite pet Her mother

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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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