WSC '24
The Strolling Saint/Pedro Meyer (1991) - Answer- A photograph depicting a surreal street scene with an overcast sky. A saintly figure in white floats above the pavement and casts a shadow on the wall running down the street. A woman and child are walking up some steps whilst, on the righ...
WSC '24
The Strolling Saint/Pedro Meyer (1991) - Answer- A photograph depicting a surreal
street scene with an overcast sky. A saintly figure in white floats above the pavement
and casts a shadow on the wall running down the street. A woman and child are
walking up some steps whilst, on the right of the image, a man is standing under
some plastic sheeting.
Late Visitors to Pompeii/Carel Wilink (1931) - Answer- This is a blend of
metaphysical, magic realism and surrealism that situates suited male figures in a
ruined classical city under a smoking volcano.
Our Lady of the Iguanas/Graciela Iturbide (1979) - Answer- This photograph of a
woman selling iguanas that focuses on the matriarchal nature of the Zapotec Indian
community and documents the role of women as healers, political leaders, sexual
sirens and merchants.
Aerial Rotating House/Albert Robida (1883) - Answer- This shows a house that's
been raised up on a rotating table that makes a statement on overcrowding and
access to light and air for urban residents.
The Romantic Dollarscape/Pedro Alvarez (2003) - Answer- This shows images of
American historical figures like Lincoln, Hamilton, Jackson and Jefferson plus the
representatives of various ethnic groups who landed in Cuba at various times—
Africans, Chinese, Arabs, indigenous people and Spaniards.
Weirdos of Another Universe/Avery Gibbs (2003) - Answer- A series of paintings that
explores the "what ifs" of an imaginary situation where a small population of humans
suddenly exist within an alien world. It is about the feeling of being an outsider after
having entered a new world, and gradually figuring out how to find your place within
it.
A Reversible Anthropomorphic Portrait of a Man Composed of Fruit/Giuseppe
Arcimboldo - Answer- It is known for anthropomorphic representations of fruits,
vegetables, plants, animals and objects.
Kawsbob/Kaws (2010) - Answer- This painting is inspired by the cartoon character
SpongeBob SquarePants.
Soup Cans/Andy Warhol (1962) - Answer- A painting that reflects the artist's life for
twenty years where he used to drink it and have the same lunch every day over and
over again.
Charlie Brown Firestarter/Banksy (2010) - Answer- It features a character emptying a
red can of gasoline onto the pavement with a cigarette protruding from his
recognizable smiling face.
,Life, Miracle Whip and Premium/Brenda O'Connell (2013) - Answer- This painting
zooms in on the everyday even further, focusing on one brand at a time that includes
consumer interest.
Liberation of Aunt Jemima:Cocktail /Betye Saar (1973) - Answer- This painting
combines the iconography of the Black Power Movement, political violence, and
aspirational middle-class American culture. It uses them to critique the racist
stereotypes of black femininity and speak to the revolutionary aims of Black
Liberation movements.
Julian calendar - Answer- It is the 365-day calendar that Julius Caesar made official
in 46 B.C. It replaced a calendar based on lunar cycles. It provided for a leap year
with an extra day every four years. And included an average of 365.25 days each
year.
Gregorian calendar - Answer- It is the system used since 1582 in Western countries
of arranging the months in the year and the days in the months and of counting the
years from the birth of Christ.
Japanese calendar - Answer- It is based on the reign period of the emperor. Each
time a different emperor begins to rule, a new counting of the years begins and the
period acquires a new name. 2019 - Present ~ Reiwa Era. 1989 - 2019 ~ Heisei Era.
1926 - 1989 ~ Showa Era.
Korean calendar - Answer- It is a lunisolar calendar, meaning that it has both Lunar
and Solar features.
Islamic calendar - Answer- It is based on twelve lunar months and consists of 344 or
345 days; the years are reckoned from the Hijra (the time when Muhammad left
Mecca for Medina and founded the first Muslim community) in 622.
Nepali calendar - Answer- It follows the Bikram Sambat (B.S) system which uses
lunar months and solar sidereal year and is also called Nepali Patro. The New year
in Nepalese Calendar begins with the month of Baisakh which falls on mid of April in
Gregorian Calendar (English Calendar).
Lunar calendar - Answer- It is any of various systems for measuring the days,
weeks, and months of the year that are based on the phases of the moon (= the
regular changes in the shape of the moon as it appears to us on earth)
Rumi calendar - Answer- It presents the official Ottoman/Turkish calendar system,
where it follows a Julian year structure, where March is the start of the year.
Mayan calendar - Answer- It serves as the basis for all other calendars used by
ancient Mexican and Central American civilizations. It was based on a ritual cycle of
260 named days and a year of 365 days.
Hindu calendar - Answer- It is based on a year of 12 lunar months; i.e., 12 full cycles
of phases of the Moon. The discrepancy between the lunar year of about 354 days
, and the solar year of about 365 days is partially resolved by intercalation of an extra
month every 30 months.
Solar calendar - Answer- It is any of various systems for measuring the days, weeks,
and months of the year that are based on a year of approximately 365 and a quarter
day, the time it takes for the earth to go around the sun once
After the Ball/Charles Harris (1892) - Answer- The song is a classic waltz in 3/4 time.
In the song, an uncle tells his niece why he has never married. He saw his
sweetheart kissing another man at a ball, and he refused to listen to her explanation.
Many years later, after the woman had died, he discovered that the man was her
brother.
Losing My Religion/REM (1991) - Answer- It is an old southern expression for being
at the end of one's rope, and the moment when politeness gives way to anger.
Pink Flamingo/Alyona Sviridova (1994) - Answer- It is a Russian song that tells the
story of a pink flamingo and the child of the sunset.
Freedom! 90/George Michael (1990) - Answer- It refers to a singer's past success
with Wham! yet also shows a new side of himself as a new man, who is more cynical
about the music business than he had been before.
Black Hole Sun/Soundgarden (1994) - Answer- It illustrates the seemingly hopeless
fantasy, revealing the darkness hidden underneath the smiling face of idyllic, white-
picket fence American life.
Singing in My Sleep/Semisonic (1998) - Answer- The singer is talking about how he
listened to someone's mixtape and it changed his mind about something. He feels
like he's falling in love too quickly, either with the person who made the mixtape or
the songs they chose. He keeps hearing the person's voice singing to him in his
dreams.
Singing in My Sleep/Semisonic (1998) - Answer- The song's meaning is burned.
I Saved the World Today/Eurthmics (1999) - Answer- This song explores themes of
heroism and self-sacrifice.
Upscaling (Super-resolution) - Answer- It is a machine learning task where the goal
is to increase the resolution of an image, often by a factor of 4x or more, while
maintaining its content and details as much as possible. The end result is a high-
resolution version of the original image.
Denoising - Answer- It means removing noise from imagery — which is becoming
more common in the field of image processing and computer vision
Dataset - Answer- It refers to a collection of data that is used to train and test
algorithms and models.
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