critical quotes

Question 1

graysonperry on gender

Answer 1

‘there is great pressure on society to sell us the idea of being either totally male or totally female.’

Question 2

grayson perry on benin bronzes

Answer 2

’ I really love Benin Bronzes from West Africa; they’re incredibly dignified and powerful. This is Jazz as a kind of Benin-style Peter Pan. ‘

Question 3

grayson perry quotes on huhne

Answer 3

‘white middle class man facing colllapse of power and status he once enjoyed’

“A white, middle-class, middle-aged, heterosexual man, an identity group that hides in plain sight.”

‘defult man’

Question 4

perry quote on saint Sebastian

Answer 4

‘If Chris saw himself as a modern day Saint Sebastian, I noticed how the arrows kept on bouncing off. I realised that my portrait would need to reflect this seeming invincibility.’

Question 5

quote of artemisia gentilleschi’s ‘feminism’

Answer 5

‘femenist spirit’ Mary Garrad

Question 6

shiva nataraja

Answer 6

‘perfect expression of rhythmic movement in the world’ rodin

Question 7

eleveation of the cross

Answer 7

H. Perry Chapman

She sees Rembrandt this was part of him re-casting himself as a ‘Court Painter’ in the style of Rubens, van Dyck or Titian, rather than the more mundane role as an artist in a free-market Dutch economy.

Question 8

BRITISH MUSEUM CURATOR ON THE BENIN BRONZES

Answer 8

we were puzzled at such a highly developed an art among a race so entirely barbarous.

Question 10

guardian quote on zaha hadid

Answer 10

‘queen of the curve’
the guardian

Question 11

heydar aliyev centre quote

Answer 11

There’s definitely a connection between fluidity – the fluid line and calligraphy – and what I am doing now

zaha hadid