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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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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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 is the name of this work made by Korean-born artist Nam June Paik using metal irons in 1974?

Flux Fleet Travel Ships in the night Irons

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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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The name Dada comes from the French term for

Hobby Horse Nonsense Nothing Surreal

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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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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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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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What filming technique was used by Sam Taylor-Johnson over several days when she made Still Life (2001)?

Timelapse Stop motion animation Fast motion video 3D animation

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Which British artist, interested in light and colour, created this still-life painting The Long Table with Fruit, in 1949?

Vanessa Bell Patrick Heron Frida Kahlo Henri Matisse

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