Building Blocks
These three things were used in Denes' work Rice/Tree/Burial.
What is planting rice in the ground, wrapping metal chains around trees in a zig-zag pattern, and burying a haiku poem she had written?
This Hungarian-born American woman collaborated with the government of Finland to create her art piece Tree Mountain.
Who is Agnes Denes?
This artistic piece, created by Hans Haake, intended to use the freezing temperatures and a waterfall to freeze ice on a rope, however something went wrong. (For the point say what went wrong and what it was called.)
What is Ice Rope? The weather patterns were unpredictable and therefore the water didn't freeze onto the rope.
Wheatfield: A confrontation felt out of place because of what?
The Fourth World by Kent Monkman, has European settlers wearing camouflage, representing what?
It represents more of a fashion statement, aligning its wearer with the mass popularization of military style.
These two columns were used in the world around the time of the Late Classical Period.
What are Doric and Corinthian columns?
This style of decoration, architecture, and design that is characterized by the depiction of leaves and flowers in flowing, sinuous lines is also known as?
What is Art Nouvaeu?
This project was founded due to hurricane Katrina which recognized childhood lead poisoning.
What is the Fundred project?
Church Rock Spill, an artistic photograph of two ponds filled with toxic waste was shot from this view.
What is an Ariel view?
How many nations attended Rio de Janeiro's Earth Summit in 1992?
172 Nations!
This is what Rebecca Belmore used to build the megaphone in Speaking to Their Mother.
What is wood and animal hide?
This art form, popularized around World War II, was used by artists such as Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, and Jackson Pollock.
What is Abstract Expressionist Art?
Shrimp farm, created by Helen and Newton Harrison was significant because of what two things?
It created the first known instance of mud crabs mating in a controlled environment as well as making them question their previous works.
What is a toxic sublime and who is best known for using it in their art?
A toxic sublime is colorful images of polluted areas (such as rivers and dumps). Edward Burtynsky is best known for using toxic sublime in his art.
How did Allora and Calzadilla view the Apollo 11 mission as?
This material was primarily used by Noah Purifoy, specifically in his work Offshore Drilling.
What was rusted scrap metal/bolts and debris. (This is also known as junk art. :D)
This artist, commonly associated with Calzadilla, worked on a series of pieces located in Vieques.
Who is Allora?
How many tons of toxins were dumped into Love Canal by the Occidental Petroleum company?
21,000 tons of toxins.
This river was polluted with toxic waste in LaToya Ruby Frazier's photographic series Flint is Family.
What is the Flint river?
This artistic piece, created by Subhankar Banerjee was an Ariel view of penguins walking in a straight line.
What was Caribou Migration I?
Bonnie Devine used this to create her canoe in her work Battle for the Woodlands.
What is hundreds of pages from her masters thesis?
This is an artistic technique in which one artist strategically uses the form of another artwork to give it new meaning.
What is Appropriation?
These five animals were displayed on Bonnie Devine's artistic series Battle for the Woodlands as the five great lakes.
What are buffalo, otter, turtle, rabbit and leviathan?
This event happened at Three Mile Island.
What is America's worst nuclear power plant experience? (The fuel melted inside of the reactors causing a spill of radioactive material leading to a reactor meltdown.)
This is when Noah Purifoy was born.
What is 1917?