Art and Music: Paintings and Pieces

Question 1

Who painted ‘Office in a Small City’

Answer 1

Edward Hopper

Question 2

What period in history is ‘Office in a Small City’ often linked to

Answer 2

Post-war America

Question 3

When was ‘Office in a Small City’ painted

Answer 3

1953

Question 4

Who is the artist in the piece ‘Hiding in the City (Vegetables)’

Answer 4

Liu Bolin

Question 5

Where did Liu Bolin’s inspiration come from for his piece

Answer 5

His sculpting studio in Bejing was broken down in 2005 for the construction of the Bejing Olympic rounds. His first painting was him blended in with his broken studio, to symbolise the hidden aspect (him) behind seemingly mundane items/places (his studio).

Question 6

What type of painting is ‘Office in a Small City’

Answer 6

Oil Painting

Question 7

Who said: “I decided to use my works to make a stand against this atrocity. I began the series ‘Hiding in the City’ as a way of voicing my anger against the atrocity of the government”

Answer 7

Liu Bolin (Hiding in the City (Vegetables)

Question 8

Who said: “My aim was to try to give the sense of an isolated and lonely office interior rather high in the air, with the office furniture which has a very definite meaning to me.”

Answer 8

Edward Hopper

Question 9

What type of painting is ‘Hiding in the City (Vegetables)’

Answer 9

Body painting

Question 10

Who painted ‘Papilla Estelar’

Answer 10

Remedios Varo

Question 11

When was ‘Papilla Estelar’ painted

Answer 11

1958

Question 12

What type of painting is ‘Papilla Estelar’

Answer 12

Oil Painting

Question 13

Where did Remedios Varos’s inspiration come from for her piece

Answer 13

Remedios Varo fled from Spain to Mexico as a result of WWII. European artists were extremely marginalized there, and as a result, Remedios felt isolated and unwelcome.

Question 14

Who painted ‘Here We Are’

Answer 14

Kushana Bush

Question 15

When was ‘Here We Are’ painted

Answer 15

2016

Question 16

What type of painting is ‘Here We Are’

Answer 16

It was painted with gouache, a slightly more pigmented form of watercolours.

Question 17

Where did Kushana Bush get inspiration from for her piece

Answer 17

Her painting (‘Here We Are’) holds aspects of Mughal paintings (derived from Persian art), Medieval paintings and Italian Renaissance pieces.

Question 18

Why might ‘Here We Are’ be considered an ironic title for what the artwork actually is

Answer 18

The way Kushana Bush has made the piece rather complicated and complex makes it anything but clear where we are, despite the title.

Question 19

Who was the artist behind ‘Untitled (Cobweb/Crossings)’

Answer 19

Reena Saini Kallat

Question 20

What type of art is ‘Untitled (Cobweb/Crossings)’

Answer 20

A sculpture made out of stamps in the shape of a

cobweb

Question 21

Where can ‘Untitled (Cobweb/Crossings)’ be found

Answer 21

The sculpture resides on the front of the Bhau Daji Lad Museum, located in Jijamata Udyaan, India

Question 22

Where did Reena Saini Kallat get the inspiration for her piece

Answer 22

Reena took a lot of inspiration from Indian Urban decolonization sprees in the early 90s, when a lot of the street names in India (particularly in Mumbai) were changed from colonial to more indigenous ones.

Question 23

Who are the artists behind ‘Open Border’

Answer 23

Atelier ARI

Question 24

When was ‘Open Border’ created

Answer 24

January 2017

Question 25

Where could you have found ‘Open Border’

Answer 25

It was located on the Assiniboine River in Winnipeg Canada while it was frozen in the winter.

Question 26

What kind of art is ‘Open Border’

Answer 26

‘Open Border’ was a project made out of a 4-meter-tall wall made out of red PVC insulating strips that trap warmth in a narrow space

Question 27

As part of what competition was ‘Open Border’ created

Answer 27

It was created as part of the 2017 ‘warming huts’ competition, which urges architects/artists to build a pavilion along the skating trail in Winnipeg.

Question 28

Where did Atelier ARI get the inspiration for their piece

Answer 28

‘Open Border’ pushed people to try and interact more with relatives and strangers alike. It was also built to counter the tenser political climates at the time; Donald Trump wanted to build a wall to separate people, so this wall would unite them.

Question 29

What was the meaning behind ‘Open Border’

Answer 29

It reflected the human spirit to unite and become one, despite geographical differences and falsely justified prejudices.

Question 30

Who painted ‘Self-portrait with a Jewish Identity Card’

Answer 30

Felix Nussbaum

Question 31

When was ‘Self-portrait with a Jewish Identity Card’ painted?

Answer 31

1943

Question 32

Where did Felix Nussbaum get the inspiration for his piece

Answer 32

Felix Nussbaum was a German Jew who was heavily targetted by the Nazis. He lived in fear for his and his family’s lives simply because of their religion, and channelled that into his artwork.

Question 33

What does the Yellow star in ‘Self-portrait with a Jewish Identity Card’ represent

Answer 33

The Yellow Star is the star a David, a telltale sign of strong Jewish religion. Felix Nussbaum (the artist of the piece) was a strong Jew.