Exam time! (Photo by jackhynes.)
The results are in for the first ever C-Monster artspeak quiz! How did you score? Here are the correct answers:
1. b
2. d
3. e
4. c
5. a
What does your score mean? If you scored…
0 out of 5: Congratulations! You don’t know what any of this crap means either.
1 out of 5: Lucky guess. You’re forgiven.
2 out of 5: Okay, anyone can have two lucky guesses. Be more cautious next time.
3 out of 5: All systems alert. You are getting perilously close to art blowhardiness.
4 out of 5: You’re officially artsy fartsy. Though more fartsy than artsy.
5 out of 5: Drop the Thesaurus and seek help immediately.
After the jump, see how the art pairs with the artspeak.
1. Tree of Winter Dew, 2008 by Rebecca Horn.
b. “These important new paintings, the scale of which are determined by the extent of the artist’s physical reach, evoke personal, metaphorical, and metaphysical influences orchestrated through dynamic gesture.”
2. Untitled (Mustang), 2008 by Josephine Meckseper.
d. “Functioning as literal and metaphorical armatures for an interrogation into the failed ’shock and awe’ phenomenon of a war that has resulted in the death of 4000 service members in Iraq and a crucial election in which one candidate has declared the possibility of occupation continuing in that country for ‘100 years,’ the installation refers to Giorgio Agamben’s concept of ‘the state of exception,’ which allows for monstrosities such as Guantanamo Bay and Blackwater to occur.”
3. Dislocation III, 2008 by Grégory Chatonsky.
e. “Grégory Chatonsky’s work is inspired by the increasing aesthetization of the destruction in the mass medias and it questions the relation between a form and a matter.”
4. Untitled, 2008 by Danielle Van Ark.
c. “By taking a position of absolutes, namely cosmological embeddedness and the influence of nature on human life and society, this exhibit goes against the relativist grain.”
5. JFK by Todd Norsten.
a. “The humble origins of his subjects are employed to investigate the esoteric tenets of modernist painting; and one prevents the other from becoming formally over determined, or too shrill in its cultural observance.”
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Wow, I was sure I’d get 5 out 5. After all, I read things like these pretty often. 2 out 5 – what a humiliation.