 - 1. Which David Bowie album features Vasarely's work in the background of the original British cover?
A) Hunky Dory B) The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust C) David Bowie (1969, also called Space Oddity) D) Aladdin Sane
- 2. Where was the first exhibition of Vasarely's work in Spain held?
A) Fundación Juan March, Madrid B) Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Canarias C) Arkas Art Center, Alaçatı D) Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas
- 3. How many paintings and drawings were included in the 2000 Madrid exhibition?
A) 30 B) 65 C) 47 D) 100
- 4. What was the date range for the Vasarely exhibition at the Fundación Juan March in Madrid?
A) 14 January - 23 April 2012 B) 24 July - 9 September 2000 C) 31 May - 16 July 2000 D) 14 January - 23 April 2000
- 5. Which museum showed the Madrid exhibition after the Fundación Juan March?
A) Arkas Art Center B) Musée en Herbe, Paris C) Centre Georges Pompidou D) Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
- 6. What were the dates of the exhibition at the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno?
A) 14 January - 23 April 2000 B) 31 May - 16 July 2000 C) July - September 2024 D) 24 July - 9 September 2000
- 7. Where was the exhibition shown following Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 2000?
A) Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife B) Musée en Herbe, Paris C) Saint-Firmin Palace in Gordes D) Zichy Palace, Óbuda
- 8. What were the dates for the exhibition at the Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Canarias?
A) 24 July - 9 September 2000 B) July - December 2024 C) 14 January - 23 April 2000 D) 31 May - 16 July 2000
- 9. In what year was a new Vasarely exhibit mounted at the Musée en Herbe in Paris?
A) 2012 B) 2019 C) 2024 D) 2000
- 10. What was the title of the 2019 temporary exhibition of Vasarely's work displayed in Paris?
A) Chevalier de L'Ordre B) Le Partage des Formes C) Arkas Collection D) Space Oddity
- 11. In which Paris institution was 'Le Partage des Formes' displayed in 2019?
A) Musée en Herbe B) Centre Georges Pompidou C) Fundación Juan March D) Saint-Firmin Palace
- 12. When was the permanent exhibition of Vasarely's work in the Arkas Collection inaugurated?
A) May 2012 B) September 2019 C) January 2000 D) July 2024
- 13. Where is the permanent exhibition of the Arkas Collection displayed?
A) Saint-Firmin Palace in Gordes B) Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris C) Arkas Art Center in Alaçatı D) Zichy Palace in Budapest
- 14. What prize did Vasarely win in 1964?
A) Chevalier de L'Ordre de la Légion d'honneur B) Gold Medal at the Milan Triennial C) Art Critics Prize D) Guggenheim Prize
- 15. Which French honor was awarded to Vasarely in 1970?
A) Chevalier de L'Ordre de la Légion d'honneur B) Gold Medal at the Milan Triennial C) Guggenheim Prize D) Art Critics Prize
- 16. Which city's Art Critics Prize was awarded to Vasarely?
A) Madrid B) Milan C) Brussels D) Paris
- 17. What medal did Vasarely win at the Milan Triennial?
A) Bronze Medal B) Silver Medal C) Gold Medal D) Platinum Medal
- 18. In which French palace was the Vasarely Museum located from 1970 to 1996?
A) Zichy Palace in Óbuda B) Aix-en-Provence Palace C) Arkas Art Center D) Saint-Firmin Palace in Gordes, Vaucluse
- 19. In what year did the Vasarely Museum in the Saint-Firmin Palace close?
A) 1976 B) 1996 C) 1987 D) 1970
- 20. Where and when was the Fondation Vasarely established?
A) Gordes, Vaucluse in 1970 B) Pécs, Hungary in 1987 C) Aix-en-Provence, France in 1976 D) Budapest, Hungary in 1976
- 21. In what year did the Vasarely Museum open in Pécs, Hungary?
A) 1996 B) 1970 C) 1987 D) 1976
- 22. In which Hungarian palace did a Vasarely Museum open in 1987?
A) Aix-en-Provence Palace B) Arkas Art Center C) Saint-Firmin Palace D) Zichy Palace, Óbuda, Budapest
- 23. What is Victor Vasarely's original birth name?
A) Jean-Pierre Yvaral B) Carlos Raúl Villanueva C) Vásárhelyi Győző D) Sándor Bortnyik
- 24. In which city was Victor Vasarely born?
A) Piešťany B) Paris C) Budapest D) Pécs
- 25. Which artwork by Vasarely, created in 1937, is considered one of the earliest examples of Op art?
A) Blue Study B) Zebra C) Tribute to Malevitch D) Self Portrait
- 26. What subject did Vasarely begin studying at Eötvös Loránd University in 1925?
A) Applied graphic art B) Architecture C) Medicine D) Traditional academic painting
- 27. What was the name of the private art school modeled on Bauhaus studies that Vasarely enrolled in during 1928/1929?
A) Foundation Vasarely B) Denise René gallery C) Podolini-Volkmann Academy D) Műller
- 28. Who was the founder of the private art school Műller that Vasarely attended in Budapest?
A) William C. Seitz B) Sándor Bortnyik C) Jacques Prévert D) Timo Sarpaneva
- 29. What was the name of the fellow student whom Vasarely married in 1930?
A) Denise René B) Claire Spinner C) Győző Vásárhelyi D) Yvaral
- 30. What was the professional name used by Vasarely's artist son, Jean-Pierre?
A) Zebra B) Vega C) Yvaral D) Suomi
- 31. In which year did Vasarely leave Hungary and settle in Paris?
A) 1959 B) 1930 C) 1925 D) 1942
- 32. Which advertising agencies did Vasarely work for in Paris between 1930 and 1935?
A) Denise René and René Breteau B) Salyut 7 and UNESCO C) Műller, Bauhaus, and Studio Linie D) Havas, Draeger, and Devambez
- 33. During his early career in the 1930s, what type of work did Vasarely primarily do?
A) Ceramic wall creator B) Graphic designer and poster artist C) Medical researcher D) Architectural consultant
- 34. In which year was Vasarely's Blue Study painted?
A) 1937 B) 1929 C) 1954 D) 1941
- 35. In which year was the work Girl-power created?
A) 1934 B) 1937 C) 1946 D) 1935
- 36. In which year was Chess Board created?
A) 1935 B) 1947 C) 1937 D) 1934
- 37. What was the name of the period from 1944 to 1947 where Vasarely experimented with various styles without finding a unique voice?
A) Vega B) Belles-Isles C) Folklore planétaire D) Les Fausses Routes – On the wrong track
- 38. Who wrote the introduction to the catalogue for Vasarely's 1946 exhibition at Denise René's gallery, placing him among the surrealists?
A) Jacques Prévert B) Will Burtin C) Georges Pompidou D) William C. Seitz
- 39. What term did Jacques Prévert create to describe Vasarely's surrealistic paintings?
A) imaginaries B) serial art C) kinematic images D) unites plastiques
- 40. Which of the following works is associated with Vasarely's Les Fausses Routes period?
A) The Blind Man B) Tribute to Malevitch C) Zebra D) Chess Board
- 41. The Denfert series of works was influenced by the white tiled walls of which metro station?
A) Centre Pompidou B) Gordes C) Paris Denfert – Rochereau D) Annet-sur-Marne
- 42. What inspired Vasarely's Belles-Isles works during a 1947 vacation at the Breton coast?
A) Cubic houses in Provence B) White tiled metro station walls C) Ball-bearings D) Ellipsoid pebbles and shells
- 43. What architectural structures led Vasarely to the composition of the Gordes/Cristal group of works?
A) Metro station walls B) Cubic houses C) Renaissance palaces D) Spacecraft
- 44. What technique did Vasarely use to create his kinetic images developed from Gordes works between 1951 and 1955?
A) Superimposed acrylic glass panes B) Transposing black-white photographs into three colors C) Permutations of geometric forms cut from a square D) Spherical swelling grids
- 45. What is the title of the ceramic wall picture co-designed by Vasarely in 1954 at the University of Caracas?
A) Hommage à l'hexagone B) Tribute to Malevitch C) Georges Pompidou D) Self Portrait
- 46. What was the name of the manifesto published by Vasarely during the kinetic art period?
A) Yellow Manifest B) Folklore Manifest C) Plastic Alphabet Manifest D) Op Art Declaration
- 47. According to Vasarely's Yellow Manifest, who is considered the sole creator relying on visual kinetics?
A) The designer B) The artist's assistant C) The architect D) The viewer
- 48. Under what name did Vasarely present his strict palette of colours and forms to the public in 1963?
A) Les Fausses Routes B) Folklore planetaire C) Belles-Isles D) Vega
- 49. Which series by Vasarely consists of endless transformations of indentations and relief adding color variations to create a perpetual mobile of optical illusion?
A) Zebra B) Tribute to the hexagon C) Belles-Isles D) Denfert
- 50. In which museum exhibition was Vasarely included in 1965, curated under the direction of William C. Seitz?
A) Le Mouvement B) The Responsive Eye C) Vision '67 D) Folklore planetaire
- 51. Which Vasarely series plays with spherical swelling grids creating an optical illusion of volume?
A) Chess Board B) Vega C) Gordes/Cristal D) Zebra
- 52. Which designer invited Vasarely to make a presentation at the Vision '67 conference at New York University in October 1967?
A) Timo Sarpaneva B) Carlos Raúl Villanueva C) Jacques Prévert D) Will Burtin
- 53. On what date did Vasarely open his first dedicated museum in a renaissance palace in Gordes?
A) 2 March 1959 B) 15 March 1997 C) 5 June 1970 D) 9 April 1906
- 54. What problem is currently affecting the Foundation Vasarely museum building in Aix-en-Provence?
A) Confiscation by space agencies B) Complete demolition by the government C) Total destruction by fire D) Water leaking from the ceiling damaging pieces
- 55. Which Finnish designer's Suomi tableware did Vasarely decorate for the German Rosenthal porcelain maker's Studio Linie?
A) Carlos Raúl Villanueva B) Sándor Bortnyik C) Timo Sarpaneva D) Will Burtin
- 56. Who took 154 specially created serigraphs by Vasarely into space on board the Salyut 7 spacecraft in 1982?
A) William C. Seitz B) Jean-Loup Chrétien C) Georges Pompidou D) Yvaral
- 57. For the benefit of which organization were the space-flown Vasarely serigraphs later sold?
A) Foundation Vasarely B) Museum of Modern Art C) UNESCO D) Centre Pompidou
- 58. How many works were featured in the second Hungarian Vasarely museum established in Budapest in 1987?
A) Over 500 works B) More than 400 works C) A 500-piece tableware run D) 154 serigraphs
- 59. At what age did Victor Vasarely die?
A) 74 B) 82 C) 65 D) 90
- 60. In which city did Victor Vasarely die on 15 March 1997?
A) Budapest B) Gordes C) Pécs D) Paris
- 61. In what year was Vasarely's Self Portrait painted?
A) 1946 B) 1954 C) 1937 D) 1941
- 62. In what year was Vasarely's work The Blind Man created?
A) 1935 B) 1941 C) 1946 D) 1959
- 63. In which French département is Arcueil, where Vasarely opened an atelier after WWII, located?
A) Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur B) Lot C) Val-de-Marne D) Seine-et-Marne
- 64. In which French département is Annet-sur-Marne, where Vasarely settled in 1961, located?
A) Lot B) Val-de-Marne C) Seine-et-Marne D) Pécs
- 65. What was the name of Claire Spinner, Vasarely's wife, prior to their marriage?
A) A museum director B) An advertising consultant C) A space cosmonaut D) A fellow student
- 66. Where did Vasarely live mostly before settling in Saint-Céré during 1942/1944?
A) The Foundation Vasarely B) Annet-sur-Marne C) Cheap hotels D) A renaissance palace
- 67. During which decades did Vasarely develop his style of geometric abstract art using a minimal number of forms and colours?
A) During the 1920s medical studies B) Only in the year 1937 C) After his death in 1997 D) Over the three decades following his early work
- 68. What type of artistic production did Vasarely explore alongside art and sculpture using optical illusion?
A) Traditional wood carving B) Classical portrait photography C) Landscape watercolor painting D) Industrial design
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