Question

In a series named for these objects, the artist traced life-size photographs of people, often facing away from the viewer. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these objects, which name a set of paintings by Michelangelo Pistoletto that includes Standing Man. The Nottingham Playhouse commissioned an Anish Kapoor installation titled for the sky and one of these objects.
ANSWER: mirrors [accept Mirror Paintings or Sky Mirror]
[10h] Pistoletto piled these other objects next to a Venus statue in another work, an oversized version of which was targeted by an arson attack. Another Pistoletto work is titled Orchestra of [these objects].
ANSWER: rags [or stracci, or straccio; accept Venus of the Rags or Orchestra of Rags or Venere degli stracci or Orchestra di stracci – Quartetto; prompt on clothing or clothes or cloths]
[10e] Before he began working as an artist, Pistoletto worked in this field involving art. Workers in this field might remove yellowed varnish or add inpainting to decayed areas.
ANSWER: art conservation [or art restoration; or art preservation; accept word forms; accept answers with “painting” in place of “art”]
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