Final Quiz Contemporary Art - Art Explora Academy

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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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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Pierre Soulages named his totally black paintings …

Mega-blacks++ Ultra-blacks Outrenoirs Metablacks

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

Deconstructions Constructions Implants Installations

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Jason Pollock is said to have had the idea of painting by placing his canvas on the ground and drawing inspiration from …

Ancient Roman artists American Najavo Indians The Yolngu, an indigenous Australian people Techniques used in the building industry

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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 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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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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