In the 1950s, this artist became one of the first to sell works created under the influence of LSD, as he sketched “monsters” he saw while tripping under the supervision of a Harvard psychiatrist. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Jewish artist whom Willem de Kooning once dubbed the “first Abstract Expressionist.” This artist’s mid-20th-century paintings of cadavers may reflect pogroms he witnessed as a child in Latvia.
ANSWER: Hyman Bloom [or Hyman Melamed]
[10m] Bloom gave a teenaged Robert Eggers books of engravings by Renaissance artists, including Albrecht Dürer and this Alsatian printmaker whose The Temptation of St Anthony was recreated by a teenaged Michelangelo.
ANSWER: Martin Schongauer [or Martin Schön; or Hübsch Martin]
[10e] Bloom’s cadaver paintings exhibit the influence of this favorite painting of his, an altarpiece of the crucifixion by Matthias Grünewald.
ANSWER: Isenheim Altarpiece
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