Loaded Questions 1/8/22 - Art

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1. The Aqua Tower in Chicago is the tallest woman-designed building in the world, completed in 2009 and designed by what American architect?

2. Theodore Rousseau and Jean-Francois Millet co-founded what art movement, named for a village near the Forest of Fountainbleu?

3. Who is "in His Study at the Tuileries" in an 1812 portrait by Jacques-Louis David?

4. Chryselephantine sculptures are typically made with what two materials?

5. Thomas Cole and William Cullen Bryant are depicted in the painting "Kindred Spirits" by what member of the Hudson River School? He also painted "The Capture of Major Andre".

6. What term is used for art classes where students make studies of nude models?

7. One of Annie Leibovitz's best known non-magazine photographs is one of her lover Susan Sontag wearing what kind of suit?

8. What British sculptor and winner of the 1994 Turner Prize designed the 66ft tall sculpture "Angel of the North" located in Gateshead in Tyne and Wear?

9. While on loan at MoMA, what three-words were defaced onto "Guernica" by Tony Shafrazi, in response to the My Lai massacre?

10. "Song of the Towers" and "An Idyll of the Deep South" are paintings in the series "Aspects of Negro Life", a series by what Harlem Renaissance artist?

11. What shade of green names the style of Chinese pottery glazed with a jade color?

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ANSWERS
1. Jeanne Gang
2. Barbizon
3. Emperor Napoleon
4. Ivory, gold
5. Asher Durand
6. Life classes
7. Bear suit
8. Antony Gormley
9. Kill Lies All
10. Aaron Douglas
11. Celadon