WorksheetsThe Empty Bed
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
The artwork, The Empty Bed, was denounced as filthy, disgusting, immoral, not even really art
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False
One of the critiques about the Empty Bed is that it is too personal
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False
1. The Empty Bed was displayed at the Tate, one of England’s most prestigious venues for contemporary art and was purchased by a collector for ________million pounds in 2014
1.5
2.5
3.5
4.5
Emin’s work is about sex, either as joke or trauma
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The Empty Bed is the tension between presence and ________________
absence
appearance
attention
existence
Empty Bed taps into roots saturated with spiritual significance because we are talking about the oddness of being creatures created both ___________and _______________
to rest, to move
to stop, to run
to live, to die
to wait, to stay
For the author, Van Gogh’s painting of his bedroom evokes a question, “What of me remains within it? In what way do I remain?”
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Mantegna’s Dead Christ captures a Christ who is playing dead
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What comforts the mind, especially the religiously faithful mind, in looking at Mantegna’s painting is that Christ is so very, very dead
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Christ, in the Dead Christ paintings, is a solution to the problem of death. He is a participant in the problem of death
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False
Theologically, the Empty Bed is about the living self of Tracey Emin who lay in that bed in 1998
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False
