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