Shoeless Trivia: Episode 10 (Art)

I’m also pretty bad at fine arts questions.

  1. This is not your Dada’s art installation. In fact it might piss you off. A photo by Alfred Stiegletz is all that remains of Fountain, a 1917 piece by what artist, who signed the work R. Mutt?
  2. The painting below is by what American painter and printmaker? It also include contributions by Edgar Degas, with whom the artist had a close professional and personal relationship while she was in Paris.
  3. Philosophy, Medicine, and Jurisprudence are a series of ceiling paintings by Gustave Klimt. What institution commissioned the paintings for its Great Hall but never displayed them because they were deemed pornographic and obscene?
  4. The still below is from a popular 1986 movie. Where is this scene set? Be specific – the city is not enough.
  5. The image below shows a series of four paintings by Normal Rockwell representing the “four freedoms” articulated in President Franklin Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union address. Which freedom is represent by the painting that has been redacted?

↓ Answers below ↓

  1. Marcel Duchamp
  2. Mary Cassat
  3. University of Vienna
  4. Art Institute of Chicago
  5. Freedom from want

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