Quiz Quiz: Which Art Activist Are You? <section><h2><h2></h2><h2 align="center" style="text-align:left;"><strong>Which Art Activist Are You?<o:p></o:p></strong></h2></h2><p><p>Some artists believe they can change the world one work of art at a time. Do you believe that everyone, no matter how small, can make a difference? </p><p><o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p></p><p>Take this quiz to find out which art activist you are!<o:p></o:p></p></p></section><section><h2><h2><h2><strong>You are Ai Weiwei!</strong><o:p></o:p></h2></h2></h2><p><p>Ai Weiwei is a famous Chinese artist and human rights activist whose art makes us think about how we’re affecting our planet. Like Ai, you are worried about our impact on the environment, and you want to do everything you can to stop climate change.<o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p>This sculpture might look like a real tree but it’s actually made up of the dead branches, roots and trunks of many trees. The dead wood makes us think about how we are damaging nature.<o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p>With his work, Ai wants to make people re-look at what we have done. Could you use materials from the natural world to make a statement about climate change?<o:p></o:p></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong>You are Yayoi Kusama</strong>!</h2></h3><p><p>Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist with a strong political conscience. She has also been called ‘the princess of polka dots’ because her work has one thing in common: dots!<o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p>Some of her earliest paintings are about the horrors of war. In 1968, she wrote a letter to the President-to-be, Richard Nixon, saying: ‘Our earth is like one little polka dot among millions of other[s], one orb full of hatred... amid the peaceful, silent [ones]...’<o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p>What would you write in a letter to your Prime Minister? <o:p></o:p></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong>You are Kara Walker! </strong></h2></h3><p><p>Kara Walker is an artist who isn’t afraid to talk about the horrible histories that have been hidden from us. Her work explores racial stereotypes and wrestles with how the past is remembered, and how it is forgotten at the same time.<o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p>Kara Walker is well-known for her big cut paper silhouettes. A silhouette is an outline of a shape or figure in one colour - in this case, black, almost like shadows!<o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p>This piece, <em>The Keys to the Coop</em>, is a large silhouette of a young girl and a chicken in a cartoon-like style. It can be seen as a comment on stereotypes associated with slavery and African-American history. Like silhouettes, stereotypes reduce the full complexity of human beings.<o:p></o:p></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong>You are the Guerrilla Girls!</strong></h2></h3><p><p>The Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous group of feminist artists who fight sexism in the art world and who use gorilla masks to protect their identities! <o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p>But don’t worry, boys are allowed too. Like the Guerrilla Girls, you believe in gender equality and that both sexes should be equal.<o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p><o:p>You might think we spelled Gorilla wrong, but Guerrilla Warfare means when smaller groups of people get together to fight bigger ones (sometimes whole armies!)</o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p>The Guerrilla Girls used the language of advertising to get their messages across. In the 1980s, they pasted up their posters on the streets of New York in the middle of the night! What might your poster say?<o:p></o:p></p></p></section><section><h2><h2>When you fight crime, you like to wear:</h2></h2></section><section><h3><h2>Do you work well with other people? </h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2>Your best skill is: </h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2>What would you consider a productive day? </h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2><h2>What are your favourite materials? <o:p></o:p></h2></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2>What sort of art do you like most?</h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2><p>In one word, you’d describe yourself as: <o:p></o:p></p></h2></h3></section> You might like Quiz: Which art collective do you belong to? Quiz: Which Artist Should Design Your School Uniform? Make a Protest Poster Make a Robot
