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Fun Trivia: A : Art World Figures

Special Sub-Topic: About Art and Artists


Which artist makes miniature environments out of paper and card which, when photographed, look like actual places?

    Thomas Demand. Thomas Demand's work is of impeccable quality - At first you think they are just photographs of offices, photocopiers etc etc. The photographs (which he enlarges to scale with actual rooms) look as if you could walk right into them and you have no idea they are paper models until you are told.

Which is a Salvador Dali painting?
    The Persistence of Memory. This is one of Dali's most famous works, with the melting clock faces.

What is the name of the company Mark Rothko was commissioned to do a series of painting for but he refused to hand the paintings over because he did not like the environment they were going to be hanged in?
    Seagrove. The Four Seasons paintings which were commissioned for the Seagrove building can be seen at TATE Modern in London.

When is it free for everyone to enter the Louvre in Paris?
    First Sunday in each month.

Which of these is not a famous Picasso painting?
    Les Sirenes. Les Sirenes was painted by Gustave Moreau.

Ferdinand Knopff belonged to which art movement?
    Symbolists. Knopff is famous for paintings such as 'The Blood of Medusa' and 'I Close the Door Upon Myself'.

In which year did Andy Warhol famously paint Marilyn Monroe?
    1962. In this year Warhol also painted his Campbell's soup cans.

Which art movement came first?
    Graffiti art. Graffiti art first started in the very early 80s, Neo-Abstraction slightly later in the early 80s, Conceptual Abstraction in the mid 80s and abject art in the late 80s.

Which artist in the late 70s and early 80s photographed herself in different female roles from housewife to prostitute?
    Cindy Sherman. Cindy Sherman's later work became somewhat darker featuring decay and rotting food.

What year did Joseph Beuys die?
    1986. Andy Warhol died the following year.

Which artist invited his audience to take away part of his sculptures, whether it be a sweet from a pile in the corner of a room or a piece of blue paper from a stack?
    Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Felix died of AIDS in 1996.

Who painted 'Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue'?
    Barnett Newman. Barnett Newman's large paintings - some 20 ft in length at times -simply overwhelmed the spectator.

Who painted 'Ophelia Floating Down River'?
    Millais. Millet used a live model floating in a bath to paint this composition.

In 1984 who was the first recipient of the Turner Prize?
    Malcolm Morley. Malcolm Morley was influential in the hyper realist movement of the 60s with his photo accurate paintings of ocean liners - His later work was far looser.

Who's exhibition called 'Stroke' in 1993 consisted of painting the Karsten Schubert Gallery with chocolate?
    Anya Gallaccio. Visitors licked the walls if they had the nerve.


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