Round 8: Tossup 5

Months before dying, this artist burned asbestos-covered cardboard with a blowtorch to make “fire paintings.” Arman filled the Iris Clert Gallery with trash in response to an exhibition by this artist that only displayed an empty glass cabinet. In one project, this artist sold certificates of ownership of non-existent spaces for gold, then threw half of the gold into a river. Pierre Restany collaborated with this artist to found (*) New Realism. A material developed by this artist was approximated for an experimental 1993 film on the AIDS crisis by Derek Jarman. This artist had nude models (10[1])cover themselves with paint (10[1])and roll on canvases to create his Anthropometries. For 10 points, name this French artist of The Void who created many monochrome works using an ultramarine pigment that is his namesake “International” shade of blue. ■END■

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