The Summer Exhibition rejected a 1913 self-portrait by Laura Knight in which she depicts herself painting in this genre. For 10 points each:
[10m] Women were long banned from painting what genre at the Royal Academy? Mary Richardson slashed a Velázquez painting in this genre that depicts an impossible reflection in a mirror.
ANSWER: nudes [accept nude portraits or paintings of naked people; prompt on a painting of Venus] (The Velázquez painting is the Rokeby Venus.)
[10e] A Guerrilla Girls poster asked if women had to be naked to get into this large New York museum that hosts an annual gala.
ANSWER: Metropolitan Museum of Art [accept the Met; accept the Met Gala]
[10h] This art historian contrasted the “huddled and defenceless” naked body with presentations of “ideal form” in The Nude. Mary Beard presented a sequel to this historian’s popular BBC series Civilisation.
ANSWER: Sir Kenneth Clark [or Kenneth Mackenzie Clark]
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