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

What are the objects in Singapore-born artist Simryn Gill’s artwork Channel #23?

Shells from the Malaysian mangrove shoreline Seaweed from the Malaysian mangrove shoreline Starfish from the Malaysian mangrove wetlands Rubbish from the Malaysian mangrove Forest

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Conceptual art became popular in the 1960s and 1970s. What is the genre most concerned with?

Media and techniques The environment Ideas Abstraction

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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 landmark did Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrap as their last piece of work in 2021?

Trafalgar Square's column in London The Vatican Church in Rome A Pyramid in Giza The Arc de Triomphe in Paris

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What kinds of things did not inspire Pop artists?

Old landscape paintings Hollywood films Billboards Television

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Which of the following products did Pop artist Andy Warhol often feature in his work?

Marmite Kaboom cereal Pop-Tarts Campbell’s Soup

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Which French poet wrote the first Surrealist Manifesto - La Révolution Surréaliste – in 1924?

Jean-Michel Basquiat André Breton Virginia Woolf Agatha Christie

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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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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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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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What is surprising about this pile of socks photographed by German-born photographer Wolfgang Tillmans in 2003?

They really smell He stole them None of them fit him The arrangement of them is carefully staged

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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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