Clue # 3 Did You Know? Andy Warhol Produced Around 60 Films

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Clue # 3 Did you know? Andy Warhol produced around 60 films. • Andrew Warhola was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was a famous artist during the Pop Art movement. His most famous works are Campbell's Soup Cans, Moonwalk, Marilyn Monroe, Che, and Eight Elvises. • He studied art at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. • He worked with different forms of media such as: painting, printmaking, photography, drawing, sculpture, film and music. • On one of his first jobs his name was misspelled as "Warhol“ and he liked it. • He explored pop culture with brands like Coca Cola, Campbells’ and Watties' soup. In 1961, he began to mass-produce commercial goods with his art. He called it Pop Art. One example was the Campbell's Soup cans. In one of his paintings, he had two hundred Campbell's soup cans. • Andy also used pictures of famous people, repeating the same portrait over and over in different colors. He painted Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor, and Mao Zedong. He used bright colors and silk screening techniques to create his artwork in large quantities. • He opened a new art studio called "The Factory" where he painted, held parties and sold a lot of his art to celebrities. He also founded the New York Academy of Art in 1979. • In 1968, he was shot three times by a woman named Valerie Solanas but he survived. What was the name of his studio where he sold art to celebrities? Question A. Carnegie Mellon B. New York Academy of Art C. Solanas

Question D. The Factory During his lifetime, Warhol…

© Think Tank 2019 Clue # 4 Hint: then Did you know? His full name is Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech. • Salvador Dali was born on May 11, 1904 in Spain. His most famous works are The Persistence of Memory, Christ of Saint John of the Cross, Rose Medidative, and The Ghost of Vermeer. His long mustache was almost as famous as his paintings. • Salvador began drawing and painting as a kid. He enjoyed painting the outdoors. • He moved to Madrid, Spain to study at the Academy of Fine Arts when he was seventeen. He was expelled from school for causing problems with his teachers. • Salvador continued to study classic art, Cubism, Futurism, Impressionism and Dadaism on his own but later became interested in Surrealism. Surrealists believed that a person’s dreams and random thoughts held the secret to the truth. Surrealist paintings often contained strange objects such as melting clocks, eggs, snails and elephants. • In 1931, Dali painted The Persistence of Memory. The painting was a desert scene covered with melting watches. • Salvador Dali and his wife moved the U.S. to escape World War II. After the war, he painted pictures showing the horrors of war and began to paint about religion. During this time he painted Christ of St. John of the Cross in 1951. He started experimenting with

optical illusions, math, science and DNA. He was influenced by the work of Sigmund Freud. Question How old was Dali when studied at the Academy of Fine Arts? A. 16 B. 17 C. 18

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Second number of code : The number of sculptures found by the heirs of ______Edgar Degas MINUS 148.

Third number of code : What number is represented by “ - - . . . ” ? ______

Last number of code : ______What number is the letter “A” in clue #1?

1. Which artist was born in Italy? 4. Which artist viewed himself as a A. Michelangelo Realist? B. Andy Warhol A. Michelangelo C. Salvador Dali B. Andy Warhol D. Edgar Degas C. Salvador Dali D. Edgar Degas 2. Where did Dali study at the 5. Who asked Michelangelo to paint Academy of Fine Arts? the Sistine Chapel? A. Madrid A. Pope Francis II B. Paris B. Pope Julius III C. Caprese C. Pope Julius II D. Carnegie D. Pope Francis III 3. Which artist painted Christ of St. 6. When did Warhol begin to mass John of the Cross? produce his art? A. Michelangelo A. 1951 B. Andy Warhol B. 1961 C. Salvador Dali C. 1971 D. Edgar Degas D. 1981

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