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

Artists such as Damien Hirst still make artwork about death and mortality. They are modern day versions of the still life theme...

Readymades Genre painting Vanitas and Memento Mori Found objects

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Which organisation established the hierarchy of painting genres (in which Still Life came last) in the 17th century?

Académie des Beaux-Arts British School in Rome The Bauhaus Royal College of Art, London

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What period was this painting by Dutch artist Clara Peeters made?

Baroque The Dutch Golden Age The Renaissance The Dark Ages

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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 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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Which of the following is not a category of still life?

Flower paintings Portraits Food and drink Household objects

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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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What is the name of this artwork by Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss, made in 1987?

A chain reaction The Way Things Go Whoosh! The Kettle’s Boiling!

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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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British artist Cornelia Parker transforms everyday objects so we can look at them in with fresh eyes. She often does this through...

An act of violence or destruction Making copies of objects Hiding objects Writing about them

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When artists such as Picasso and Braque showed objects from different perspectives at the same time in the same picture this was called...

Post-impressionism Impressionism Cubism Dadaism

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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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