Question
In a series named for these objects, the artist traced life-size photographs of people, often facing away from the viewer. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these objects, which name a set of paintings by Michelangelo Pistoletto that includes Standing Man. The Nottingham Playhouse commissioned an Anish Kapoor installation titled for the sky and one of these objects.
ANSWER: mirrors [accept Mirror Paintings or Sky Mirror]
[10h] Pistoletto piled these other objects next to a Venus statue in another work, an oversized version of which was targeted by an arson attack. Another Pistoletto work is titled Orchestra of [these objects].
ANSWER: rags [or stracci, or straccio; accept Venus of the Rags or Orchestra of Rags or Venere degli stracci or Orchestra di stracci – Quartetto; prompt on clothing or clothes or cloths]
[10e] Before he began working as an artist, Pistoletto worked in this field involving art. Workers in this field might remove yellowed varnish or add inpainting to decayed areas.
ANSWER: art conservation [or art restoration; or art preservation; accept word forms; accept answers with “painting” in place of “art”]
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Summary
2025 ACF Nationals | 04/19/2025 | Y | 22 | 13.64 | 96% | 36% | 5% |
Data
Arizona State | UC Berkeley A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Chicago B | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Cornell A | Harvard | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Florida | Cornell B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Indiana | Illinois B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
MIT | Yale | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Ottawa | Maryland | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Columbia A | Michigan | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Chicago A | Minnesota | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Virginia | NYU | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Stanford | Ohio State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
RIT | Penn State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Texas | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
North Carolina B | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Toronto B | WUSTL B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Illinois A | Toronto C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Georgia State | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Virginia Tech | UCF | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Vanderbilt | North Carolina A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
WUSTL A | Iowa State | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
LSE | Waterloo A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
British Columbia | Winona State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |