A lone tree looms over a pond and green valley in this artist’s pastoral landscape The Kiss of the Earth. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this artist whose Madonna Oriflamma includes his “Banner of Peace” symbol. This artist’s namesake Upper West Side museum exhibits his many abstract Himalayan landscapes.
ANSWER: Nicholas Roerich [or Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh; accept Nicholas Roerich Museum] (The Kiss of the Earth is part of Roerich’s set design for The Rite of Spring.)
[10e] Roerich helped lead Mir iskusstva, or the World of Art movement, which combined influences such as Rococo painting and folk art to critique this group of Russian realists named for their itinerant exhibits.
ANSWER: Wanderers [or Peredvizhniki]
[10m] An artist with this first name led the Nevsky Pickwickians who started the World of Art movement. An academic artist with this first name and the surname Cabanel painted The Birth of Venus and rejected Édouard Manet, creating the Salon des Refusés.
ANSWER: Alexandre [or Alexander; accept Alexandre Cabanel; accept Alexandre Benois or Aleksandr Nikolayevich Benua]
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