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

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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What was the title of Marcel Duchamp’s readymade artwork that caused a stir in 1917?

Urinal Readymade R Mutt Fountain

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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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What does ‘Natura Morta’, the Italian word for Still Life, mean?

Everyday life Dead Nature Quiet life Dead animals

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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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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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To reflect comic strips and mass-produced printing methods, how did Roy Lichenstein use colour?

He chose them at random He only used black and white He used as many different colours as possible He mainly used primary colours

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Which Pop artist, who loved repetition, said “I want to be a machine”.

Pauline Boty Andy Warhol Jackson Pollock Louise Bourgeois

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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 installation art?

An environment which surrounds the viewer and unifies a whole space A marble statue When something is installed somewhere forever It’s a kind of painting

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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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