"Work of Art: The Next Great Artist" Season 2 Quiz

Answer: A stained glass image of a bear

Arriving to meet their fellow competitors at the Brooklyn Museum, the artists were met by China Chow and Simon de Pury and led to their first challenge-- coming face to face with a room of kitsch art. Each artist needed to select a piece from this room and use it to exhibit their own style for the judges.

The winner of this first task was Michelle who selected a wood totem and created a paper skeleton sculpture as a companion piece. She took the first immunity. In the end, Bayeté's failed piece about race, Sucklord's clay mock-up of Gandalf the wizard, and Ugo's line drawing based on a gold and red wood carving failed to interest the judges. Ugo became the first eliminated artist.

Answer: Parkour

In task two, the artists met with a group of people performing parkour and were told that their next task would be done in teams. They would each be judged individually since only one would be eliminated, but there would be a winning team. Both groups failed to interest Simon during their studio visit and they were each forced to recreate their themes.

The winning team chose the theme 'Play With Me' and consisted of Bayeté, Dusty, Kymia, Michelle, Sara, Sarah, and Sucklord. Bayeté ended up winning individual immunity for a looped video of himself spinning in a circle.

The other team, whose theme was 'Loop', failed to impress. Kathryn, whose works consisted of fake organs made of dough and food colouring in tableau, was eliminating for straying too far from the theme and for virtually replicating her previous works.

Answer: Two artists would be eliminated

For task three, each artist needed to create an example of Pop Art to impress the judging panel. In addition, while no one would receive immunity from this particular challenge, the winner would be given a two-page spread in "Entertainment Weekly" with their piece.

This ended up being won by Young with his piece about California's Proposition 8. A number of pieces didn't click with the judges, however. Had he not had immunity from the previous task, according to the judges, Bayeté likely would've fallen to the bottom.

Instead, Leon's fragmented piece about American branding and Jazz-Minh's lackluster and unclear pair of images forced them out of the running.

Answer: A local schoolchild

The fourth challenge featured ten artists vying for immunity. In this task the artists needed to speak to schoolchildren enrolled in after-school arts programs about their art pieces and create a sort of companion piece to compliment and enhance the work. Kymia, whose child created a still life of a vegetable on the beach, won the immunity by extending the message she originally had behind the painting.

The bottom three were Sucklord, Tewz, and Sara J. but it was ultimately Tewz' piece, a concrete statue of letters spelling the word 'GROW', which spelled his end.

Answer: The disappearance of Ai Weiwei

For task 5, the artists visited the "New York Times" and walked away with stacks of newspapers from which they could derive their next inspiration. Using a headline of their choice they would need to make a piece that would be displayed in the New York Times Building.

They would also receive a cash prize. Young ended up winning the task with a series of pieces resembling blacked-out newspapers titled 'Where is Ai Weiwei?'. Bayeté became the sixth eliminated artist for his gaudy attempt at using a revival of "Sister Act 2: The Musical" as the basis of his piece.

Answer: Street art

In the sixth challenge, with eight artists remaining, the competitors hit the streets and met with China Chow and Simon de Pury at the Manhattan Bridge overpass to discover their canvases would be on the side of a building. Their goal was to create the strongest piece of street art to impress the judges. Young and Dusty shared the win on this one but would not receive immunity (as immunity would no longer appear in the competition).

They shared $30,000 for their victory using a piece about a conversation between the two of them. Sucklord and Sarah K.'s piece, a large-scale labyrinth, fared worst with the judges and Sucklord was eliminated after three previous appearances in the bottom.

Answer: Michelle

For task number seven, the remaining seven artists needed to integrate parts found inside a disassembled Fiat 500 into a new work of art. This meant that all artists would be doing a sculptural piece. Sara J. won her first task with a sculptural work called "Backfire" consisting of a muffler and the inner foam of the car seats.

This earned her a $25,000 reward. In the end, Michelle was eliminated for creating a work too derivative of her previous pieces and too underwhelming for the task at hand.

Answer: Sell it

With six artists remaining, they were taken to a neighbourhood park in the city and told that they would need to work in pairs of their choice to create art that they could sell in a craft fair as well as art that could be ready for the gallery. Young and Sara J., Dusty and Kymia, and Lola and Sarah K. each created something to be worn as well as their own unique pieces to sell.

The winners, Young and Sara J., ended up selling unique underwear and art as well as Sara's portraitures. As such they split $30,000 and could not be eliminated. Sarah K. ended up going home for creating simplistic hats out of construction paper.

Answer: Car parts

In challenge nine, the five remaining artists ended up traveling to Cold Springs, New York on the train and were told that they would have two hours to explore the town, meet some of its citizens, and ask permission to create an Americana portraiture for viewing in the gallery. Dusty was eliminated for his piece, a mosaic of candy depicting a little girl; the judges felt it was too derivative of his first entry. Lola was also eliminated for creating a too-abstract piece about local numismatists out of paper money.

Answer: Kymia

For three months, the final three artists would have the opportunity to create a final show to display at Phillips de Pury & Company in New York City. Sara J. came in third place with her show titled 'Anonymous Contemplations', a series of installation pieces and a filmed performance art piece based on others' secrets. Young's exhibition, 'Bool-sa-jo', was based on his father's passing and featured several material and photography pieces.

He came in second. The winner ended up being Kymia, whose exhibit, 'Not For Long, My Forlorn', was a painting-heavy show about death and loss.

She won the $100,000 prize and the spread in "Blue Canvas" magazine as well as the show at the Brooklyn Museum.