A sculpture by this artist unveiled at Rockefeller Center on September 10th, 2002 of a woman tumbling to her death from the World Trade Center was quickly removed after public outrage. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this artist best-known for voyeuristic paintings of suburban sexuality, such as Master Bedroom and Daddy’s Girl.
ANSWER: Eric Fischl
[10e] Scene #2 in Fischl’s Dining Room series shows a potbellied man drinking in front of Gerhard Richter’s painting titled for a “woman” doing this. A “nude” does this in a Duchamp painting displayed at the Armory Show.
ANSWER: descending a staircase [accept Woman Descending a Staircase or Frau die Treppe herabgehend or Nude Descending A Staircase, No. 2 or Nu descendant un escalier n° 2]
[10m] Fischl’s work has been compared to that of this similarly controversial mononymous Polish-French painter. Thousands of museumgoers have petitioned against this artist’s Thérèse Dreaming, one of his paintings allegedly sexualizing pubescent girls.
ANSWER: Balthus [or Balthasar Klossowski de Rola]
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