Modern ART EXPLAINED

Question 1

French born of half Cuban heritage, this painter is stylistically difficult to pin down. The only cubist to attend the armory show, he wrote the Dada magazine 391, and dallied with surrealism before returning to more figurative work

Answer 1

Francis PICABIA

Question 2

The leading female figure of the constructivist and productivist movements, who was the wife of Alexander Rodchenko?

Answer 2

Vavara STEPANOVA

Question 3

One of the most famous Montmartre painters to have been born there, who is as famous for his cityscapes as for questions as to which of the many lovers of Suzanne Valadon was his real father?

Answer 3

Maurice UTRIĹLO

Question 4

Cold Dark Matter (An Exploded View) and the Folkestone Mermaid are works by which British female sculptor and installation artist?

Answer 4

Cornelia PARKER

Question 5

Whats was the signature on Duchamp’s Fountain?

Answer 5

R Mutt 1917

Question 6

Fleeing the Armenian genocide, he became a leading US abstract expressionist till his suicide in 1948.

Answer 6

Arshile GORKY

Question 7

HUsband of okeefe

Answer 7

Alfred stieglitz

Question 8

In which US city is the Georgia OK for museum

Answer 8

Santa Fe

Question 9

16 worldwide high end contempoary galeeries

Answer 9

GAGOSIAN

Question 10

S african born, amsterdam based female painter

Answer 10

Marlene dumas

Question 11

French word describing european response to absract expreßionism

Answer 11

Tachisme

Question 12

Which German artist a leading figure of the Tachisme movement Took his own life in Paris in 1951

Answer 12

WOLS