Hélio Oiticica (“AY-lee-oo oy-chee-SEE-kuh”), Lygia Clark (“LEE-zhuh clark”), and several other Brazilian artists of the Neoconcrete movement were inspired by a 1951 retrospective on a student of this school named Max Bill. For 10 points each:
[10m] Paul Klee (“clay”) and Wassily Kandinsky taught at what functionalist, Weimar-era design school founded in Germany by Walter Gropius?
ANSWER: Bauhaus (“BAU-house”) [or Staatliches Bauhaus]
[10h] Clark’s painting Unity No. 1 depicts one of these things with a white border and projects slightly from the wall. Kazimir Malevich painted a black one of these objects like a religious icon for a Suprematist exhibition.
ANSWER: squares [accept Black Square or Chernyi Kvadrat; prompt on shapes or quadrilaterals or rectangles]
[10e] Oiticica’s Cosmacocas installations were inspired by his cocaine highs, during which he wrote an ode dedicated to this Romanian sculptor of The Endless Column and Bird in Space.
ANSWER: Constantin Brâncuși (“brin-KOOSH”) [accept “Brancusias”]
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