Judy Chicago: More Than a Dinner Party Quiz

Answer: Sprayed onto the metal

For this 1964 work, Chicago used a real steel car hood. She sprayed on layers of automotive lacquer, the kind of paint used on cars, and used tape to control the design. She had learned the technique at auto-body school. The finished work was designed to hang on a wall. Getty conservators later used X-rays to study how it was put together.

Answer: Miriam Schapiro

Chicago and Miriam Schapiro taught together in the Feminist Art Program at CalArts, the California Institute of the Arts. For the 1972 "Womanhouse" project, they worked with students and local artists to transform a run-down house in Los Angeles. Its rooms became settings for installations and performances about women's domestic lives. Everyday activities such as cooking, cleaning and ironing became subjects for art.

The house itself formed part of the exhibition.

Answer: Fireworks and flares

The Oakland Museum commissioned "A Butterfly for Oakland" in 1974. Fireworks and flares formed a butterfly shape that appeared in colour and faded as the performance ended. It belonged to Chicago's "Atmospheres" series, which used smoke and fire to change the appearance of outdoor spaces.

She described her aim as softening the landscape. Photographs record the performance, whose colours lasted only a short time.

Answer: Embroidery, quilting and other needlework

Created between 1980 and 1985, the "Birth Project" combined painting and needlework to depict birth and creation. Chicago supplied designs, while skilled needleworkers developed them in fabric and thread. Different pieces used embroidery, quilting, crochet and other techniques.

The finished works credited the people who carried out the needlework. Those credits let viewers recognise the contributions of individual makers as well as the artist who designed the images.

Answer: PowerPlay

"Driving the World to Destruction" belongs to "PowerPlay", a series made between 1982 and 1987. The 1985 painting combines sprayed acrylic and oil paint on linen. Chicago described the series as an examination of masculinity and the use of power, including its harmful effects on men and the wider world. Alongside paintings, she made drawings, weavings and reliefs. Work on the series overlapped with the "Birth Project".

Answer: Photography

Woodman's photography was combined with Chicago's painting in "Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light". They developed it through years of research, travel and work together. The larger project also included tapestry and stained glass made with skilled collaborators.

It examined the Holocaust and connected that history with questions about power and human responsibility. The exhibition first opened at the Spertus Museum in Chicago in 1993.

Answer: Proverbs and everyday sayings

Chicago used proverbs and everyday sayings as starting points for "Resolutions: A Stitch in Time". The works combined painting and needlework, with experienced needleworkers helping to make the images. "Bury the Hatchet" shows Christian, Jewish and Muslim clergy grasping the handle of the same hatchet.

The saying means to end a disagreement, so the image gives the words a literal form. The wider project explored subjects including tolerance, responsibility, hope and change.

Answer: A medieval book of hours

A book of hours was a medieval devotional book containing prayers for different times of day. Chicago adapted that idea to her devotion to cats in "Kitty City". Her watercolours show the individual animals with whom she and Donald Woodman lived. Scenes of feeding, cleaning and other daily routines organise the cats' day. The series was collected in a book published in 2005.

Answer: India

The Chanakya School of Craft in Mumbai, India, made the banners for Dior's spring-summer 2020 couture show. They were displayed inside a huge goddess-shaped structure that Chicago designed for the show in Paris. The embroidered questions imagined a world ruled by women.

Some banners also used applique, in which pieces of fabric are sewn onto a backing. The project brought Indian craft skills into the setting of a French couture show.

Answer: A dam

"Battered" (2016) shows salmon blocked by a dam as they try to swim upstream. Chicago painted the scene on black glass, using paint fixed by firing it in a kiln. It is part of "The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction". The series explores human mortality and threats to other species. It was first exhibited at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in 2019.