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                                        Matching Quiz

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        Please select from the following list of match words.

Migrant life vests, performance art, Neo Pointillism, Imperfect Paintings, Tate Modern museum, lines or dots, Emil Nolde, Anish Kapoor, Olafur Eliasson, Silvia Bachli, Roy Lichtenstein

        Complete each line with the best matching word.

1. She made brush drawings of graceful lines and curves.

2. German Expressionist master of figurative brush drawings.

3. Lichtenstein's name for his abstract paintings with a part that extends beyond the rectangular frame.

4. Carsten Holler created giant esthetic enclosed tubes that people could slide within, where?

5. Shiny giant bean in Millennium Park, Chicago was made by?

6. Yoko Ono invited people to snip off pieces of her clothing as an example of what kind of art?

7. Ai Weiwei wrapped what around the columns of the Konzert Haus in Berlin?

8. He filled some regions of his paintings with lines or dots.

9. Name of the modern art made in the divisionism style of Seurat and Signac.

10. He created a whole environment inside the Tate Modern museum in London.

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     Quiz answers are further down below two artworks by Bart Vargas. Our first one is called Portal 1 from 2016.  Could it be appropriate for Christmas?  I hope so.  This post was written in the days before Christmas.   

                                

and another one, by name Bull's Eye 5 of 2011
   


        I suggest you visit the website bartvargas.com. 
        In each work, do you think he cut up and reassembled a single prior artwork? On the bull's eye do you see some other paint splotches at the seams? Are they intentional? What character do they give?
        I suspect the flat art is cut then mounted on solid thicker material, perhaps plywood. The effect seems jarring yet cohesive. Which of the works do you think was harder to cut and assemble?
       Which one would you rather own? Or better yet, if you owned both, where in your house would you put each? Why?
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Quiz answers

1. She made brush drawings of graceful lines and curves.
Silvia Bachli
2. German Expressionist master of figurative brush drawings.
Emil Nolde
3. Lichtenstein's name for his abstract paintings with a part that extends beyond the rectangular frame.
Imperfect paintings
4. Carsten Holler created giant esthetic enclosed tubes that people could slide within, where?
Tate Modern Museum
5. Shiny giant bean in Millennium Park, Chicago was made by?
Anish Kapoor
6. Yoko Ono invited people to snip off pieces of her clothing as an example of what kind of art?    Performance Art
7. Ai Weiwei wrapped what around the columns of the Konzert Haus in Berlin?    Migrant life vests
8. He filled some regions of his paintings with lines or dots.
Roy Lichtenstein
9. Name of the modern art made in the divisionism style of Seurat and Signac. Neo Pointillism
10. He created a whole environment inside the Tate Modern museum in London.    Olafur Eliasson

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