Abstract Art quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   What art form did Kandinsky want his paintings to work like?

   Answer: Music

   Why: Music lent him his titles too: Kandinsky named whole series of canvases Compositions and Improvisations.

2. 2 Medium

   Who gave Calder's moving sculptures the name 'mobiles'?

   Answer: Marcel Duchamp

   Why: The name works twice over in French, where mobile means both something that moves and a motive.

3. 3 Hard

   What does the full title of Malevich's Red Square say it shows?

   Answer: A peasant woman

   Why: The canvas shows neither a woman nor, strictly, a square: two sides of the red shape slant.

4. 4 Easy

   What was 'Pierre Brassau', a painter praised by critics in 1964?

   Answer: A chimpanzee

   Why: The artist was Peter, a four-year-old chimp from Sweden's Borås Zoo, and a tabloid journalist set up the show to test the critics.

5. 5 Medium

   Which movement did Malevich launch in 1915?

   Answer: Suprematism

   Why: The name proclaims the supremacy of pure artistic feeling over any picture of real objects.

6. 6 Hard

   Which restaurant were Rothko's Seagram murals painted for?

   Answer: The Four Seasons

   Why: None of them ever hung there: Rothko withdrew from the commission and returned the money he had been paid.