- 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) The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
C) Hunky Dory
D) Aladdin Sane
- 2. Where was the first exhibition of Vasarely's work in Spain held?
A) Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas
B) Fundación Juan March, Madrid
C) Arkas Art Center, Alaçatı
D) Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Canarias
- 3. How many paintings and drawings were included in the 2000 Madrid exhibition?
A) 47
B) 65
C) 100
D) 30
- 4. What was the date range for the Vasarely exhibition at the Fundación Juan March in Madrid?
A) 24 July - 9 September 2000
B) 14 January - 23 April 2012
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) Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
B) Musée en Herbe, Paris
C) Centre Georges Pompidou
D) Arkas Art Center
- 6. What were the dates of the exhibition at the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno?
A) July - September 2024
B) 31 May - 16 July 2000
C) 24 July - 9 September 2000
D) 14 January - 23 April 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) Zichy Palace, Óbuda
C) Saint-Firmin Palace in Gordes
D) Musée en Herbe, Paris
- 8. What were the dates for the exhibition at the Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Canarias?
A) 14 January - 23 April 2000
B) 31 May - 16 July 2000
C) 24 July - 9 September 2000
D) July - December 2024
- 9. In what year was a new Vasarely exhibit mounted at the Musée en Herbe in Paris?
A) 2019
B) 2012
C) 2000
D) 2024
- 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) Saint-Firmin Palace
B) Fundación Juan March
C) Centre Georges Pompidou
D) Musée en Herbe
- 12. When was the permanent exhibition of Vasarely's work in the Arkas Collection inaugurated?
A) May 2012
B) January 2000
C) July 2024
D) September 2019
- 13. Where is the permanent exhibition of the Arkas Collection displayed?
A) Zichy Palace in Budapest
B) Arkas Art Center in Alaçatı
C) Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris
D) Saint-Firmin Palace in Gordes
- 14. What prize did Vasarely win in 1964?
A) Gold Medal at the Milan Triennial
B) Art Critics Prize
C) Guggenheim Prize
D) Chevalier de L'Ordre de la Légion d'honneur
- 15. Which French honor was awarded to Vasarely in 1970?
A) Gold Medal at the Milan Triennial
B) Chevalier de L'Ordre de la Légion d'honneur
C) Guggenheim Prize
D) Art Critics Prize
- 16. Which city's Art Critics Prize was awarded to Vasarely?
A) Brussels
B) Milan
C) Paris
D) Madrid
- 17. What medal did Vasarely win at the Milan Triennial?
A) Platinum Medal
B) Bronze Medal
C) Silver Medal
D) Gold Medal
- 18. In which French palace was the Vasarely Museum located from 1970 to 1996?
A) Zichy Palace in Óbuda
B) Saint-Firmin Palace in Gordes, Vaucluse
C) Arkas Art Center
D) Aix-en-Provence Palace
- 19. In what year did the Vasarely Museum in the Saint-Firmin Palace close?
A) 1987
B) 1996
C) 1976
D) 1970
- 20. Where and when was the Fondation Vasarely established?
A) Budapest, Hungary in 1976
B) Aix-en-Provence, France in 1976
C) Pécs, Hungary in 1987
D) Gordes, Vaucluse in 1970
- 21. In what year did the Vasarely Museum open in Pécs, Hungary?
A) 1996
B) 1987
C) 1976
D) 1970
- 22. In which Hungarian palace did a Vasarely Museum open in 1987?
A) Arkas Art Center
B) Aix-en-Provence Palace
C) Zichy Palace, Óbuda, Budapest
D) Saint-Firmin Palace
- 23. What is Victor Vasarely's original birth name?
A) Carlos Raúl Villanueva
B) Vásárhelyi Győző
C) Jean-Pierre Yvaral
D) Sándor Bortnyik
- 24. In which city was Victor Vasarely born?
A) Budapest
B) Pécs
C) Piešťany
D) Paris
- 25. Which artwork by Vasarely, created in 1937, is considered one of the earliest examples of Op art?
A) Blue Study
B) Tribute to Malevitch
C) Self Portrait
D) Zebra
- 26. What subject did Vasarely begin studying at Eötvös Loránd University in 1925?
A) Traditional academic painting
B) Medicine
C) Architecture
D) Applied graphic art
- 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) Podolini-Volkmann Academy
C) Műller
D) Denise René gallery
- 28. Who was the founder of the private art school Műller that Vasarely attended in Budapest?
A) William C. Seitz
B) Jacques Prévert
C) Sándor Bortnyik
D) Timo Sarpaneva
- 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) 1942
B) 1959
C) 1925
D) 1930
- 32. Which advertising agencies did Vasarely work for in Paris between 1930 and 1935?
A) Műller, Bauhaus, and Studio Linie
B) Denise René and René Breteau
C) Salyut 7 and UNESCO
D) Havas, Draeger, and Devambez
- 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) Architectural consultant
D) Ceramic wall creator
- 34. In which year was Vasarely's Blue Study painted?
A) 1954
B) 1941
C) 1937
D) 1929
- 35. In which year was the work Girl-power created?
A) 1934
B) 1946
C) 1935
D) 1937
- 36. In which year was Chess Board created?
A) 1935
B) 1934
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) Folklore planétaire
B) Les Fausses Routes – On the wrong track
C) Vega
D) Belles-Isles
- 38. Who wrote the introduction to the catalogue for Vasarely's 1946 exhibition at Denise René's gallery, placing him among the surrealists?
A) William C. Seitz
B) Georges Pompidou
C) Jacques Prévert
D) Will Burtin
- 39. What term did Jacques Prévert create to describe Vasarely's surrealistic paintings?
A) kinematic images
B) serial art
C) imaginaries
D) unites plastiques
- 40. Which of the following works is associated with Vasarely's Les Fausses Routes period?
A) Chess Board
B) Zebra
C) The Blind Man
D) Tribute to Malevitch
- 41. The Denfert series of works was influenced by the white tiled walls of which metro station?
A) Gordes
B) Centre Pompidou
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) White tiled metro station walls
B) Ball-bearings
C) Cubic houses in Provence
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) Tribute to Malevitch
B) Self Portrait
C) Georges Pompidou
D) Hommage à l'hexagone
- 46. What was the name of the manifesto published by Vasarely during the kinetic art period?
A) Plastic Alphabet Manifest
B) Yellow Manifest
C) Folklore 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 viewer
C) The architect
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) Belles-Isles
B) Les Fausses Routes
C) Folklore planetaire
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) Denfert
C) Belles-Isles
D) Tribute to the hexagon
- 50. In which museum exhibition was Vasarely included in 1965, curated under the direction of William C. Seitz?
A) Vision '67
B) Folklore planetaire
C) The Responsive Eye
D) Le Mouvement
- 51. Which Vasarely series plays with spherical swelling grids creating an optical illusion of volume?
A) Gordes/Cristal
B) Zebra
C) Vega
D) Chess Board
- 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) Jacques Prévert
C) Will Burtin
D) Carlos Raúl Villanueva
- 53. On what date did Vasarely open his first dedicated museum in a renaissance palace in Gordes?
A) 5 June 1970
B) 15 March 1997
C) 2 March 1959
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) Water leaking from the ceiling damaging pieces
C) Total destruction by fire
D) Complete demolition by the government
- 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) Sándor Bortnyik
D) Carlos Raúl Villanueva
- 56. Who took 154 specially created serigraphs by Vasarely into space on board the Salyut 7 spacecraft in 1982?
A) Georges Pompidou
B) Yvaral
C) Jean-Loup Chrétien
D) William C. Seitz
- 57. For the benefit of which organization were the space-flown Vasarely serigraphs later sold?
A) UNESCO
B) Centre Pompidou
C) Foundation Vasarely
D) Museum of Modern Art
- 58. How many works were featured in the second Hungarian Vasarely museum established in Budapest in 1987?
A) More than 400 works
B) A 500-piece tableware run
C) Over 500 works
D) 154 serigraphs
- 59. At what age did Victor Vasarely die?
A) 90
B) 65
C) 82
D) 74
- 60. In which city did Victor Vasarely die on 15 March 1997?
A) Gordes
B) Paris
C) Budapest
D) Pécs
- 61. In what year was Vasarely's Self Portrait painted?
A) 1946
B) 1954
C) 1941
D) 1937
- 62. In what year was Vasarely's work The Blind Man created?
A) 1941
B) 1946
C) 1959
D) 1935
- 63. In which French département is Arcueil, where Vasarely opened an atelier after WWII, located?
A) Val-de-Marne
B) Lot
C) Seine-et-Marne
D) Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- 64. In which French département is Annet-sur-Marne, where Vasarely settled in 1961, located?
A) Pécs
B) Seine-et-Marne
C) Val-de-Marne
D) Lot
- 65. What was the name of Claire Spinner, Vasarely's wife, prior to their marriage?
A) An advertising consultant
B) A fellow student
C) A museum director
D) A space cosmonaut
- 66. Where did Vasarely live mostly before settling in Saint-Céré during 1942/1944?
A) Cheap hotels
B) A renaissance palace
C) Annet-sur-Marne
D) The Foundation Vasarely
- 67. During which decades did Vasarely develop his style of geometric abstract art using a minimal number of forms and colours?
A) Over the three decades following his early work
B) After his death in 1997
C) Only in the year 1937
D) During the 1920s medical studies
- 68. What type of artistic production did Vasarely explore alongside art and sculpture using optical illusion?
A) Classical portrait photography
B) Industrial design
C) Landscape watercolor painting
D) Traditional wood carving
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