Question

In a photograph, this artist poses next to his painting Le Barbare, a work drawing inspiration from the French crime-fiction villain Fantômas. This artist parodied works like Manet’s Le Balcon and David’s Madame Recamier by replacing (-5[1])human figures with coffins in the series (15[1])Perspectives. (15[1])Another (15[1])Fantômas-inspired work shows two men, one holding a club and the other a net, (15[2])waiting to ambush (15[2])a figure standing beside a (*) gramophone. This man depicted (-5[1])himself painting a bird (10[1])while using an unhatched egg as a reference in the painting Clairvoyance. This artist of The Menaced Assassin painted hundreds of identically dressed men raining from the sky (10[1])in Golconda. In a work by this artist, a hovering green apple (10[1])obscures the (10[1])face of a man in a bowler hat. For 10 points, name this Belgian surrealist painter of The Son of Man. (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: René Magritte [or René François Ghislain Magritte]
<JC, Painting and Sculpture>
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Summary

2023 ILLIAC (Cornell)2023-10-21Y4100%50%0%79.25
2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite)2023-10-21Y8100%63%25%74.13

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Robert CondronChicago AOhio State C5815
Shourjo GanguliOhio State AMichigan B5815
Eric YangPurdue BChicago D6115
Jacob SimmonsSIUE APurdue C6115
Dennis YangMichigan ASIUE B70-5
Henry CafaroChicago BChicago C7410
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTLPurdue A10210
Jiming ChenCornell FireRochester B11410
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