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Question

Hélio Oiticica (“AY-lee-oo oy-chee-SEE-kuh”), Lygia Clark (“LEE-zhuh clark”), and several other Brazilian artists of the Neoconcrete movement were inspired by a 1951 retrospective on a student of this school named Max Bill. For 10 points each:

[10m] Paul Klee (“clay”) and Wassily Kandinsky taught at what functionalist, Weimar-era design school founded in Germany by Walter Gropius?

ANSWER: Bauhaus (“BAU-house”) [or Staatliches Bauhaus]

[10h] Clark’s painting Unity No. 1 depicts one of these things with a white border and projects slightly from the wall. Kazimir Malevich painted a black one of these objects like a religious icon for a Suprematist exhibition.

ANSWER: squares [accept Black Square or Chernyi Kvadrat; prompt on shapes or quadrilaterals or rectangles]

[10e] Oiticica’s Cosmacocas installations were inspired by his cocaine highs, during which he wrote an ode dedicated to this Romanian sculptor of The Endless Column and Bird in Space.

ANSWER: Constantin Brâncuși (“brin-KOOSH”) [accept “Brancusias”]

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Southern California	Main	Y	7	15.71	57%	71%	29%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	11.11	44%	44%	22%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	11	20.00	73%	91%	36%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	5	20.00	80%	60%	60%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	12	16.67	58%	75%	33%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	20.00	78%	67%	56%
Northeast	Main	Y	11	19.09	55%	91%	46%
Pacific	Main	Y	8	17.50	63%	88%	25%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	20.00	75%	75%	50%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	12.00	0%	80%	40%
UK (South)	UK	Y	8	15.00	38%	75%	38%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	6.00	0%	60%	0%

Data


UCSD A	Claremont B	10	10	10	30
Claremont A	UC Santa Barbara	10	10	10	30
UCLA A	UCLA F	10	0	0	10
UCLA C	UCLA D	10	0	10	20
UCLA E	Claremont C	0	0	0	0
UCLA B	UCSD B	10	0	10	20
USC A	UC Irvine	0	0	0	0
Waterloo B	Guelph A	0	0	0	0
Toronto C	McMaster A	0	0	0	0
Toronto D	Toronto A	10	10	10	30
Toronto B	Waterloo A	10	0	0	10
Toronto E	Waterloo C	10	10	10	30
Brock A	Toronto F	0	0	0	0
Toronto G	McMaster B	0	0	10	10
McMaster C	Toronto H	0	0	10	10
Queen's A	Toronto I	10	0	0	10
Michigan B	CWRU A	10	10	10	30
CWRU B	Michigan State A	10	0	10	20
Michigan A	Louisville A	10	10	10	30
Louisville B	Ohio State B	10	0	10	20
Louisville D	CWRU C	10	10	10	30
Ohio State A	Michigan C	10	10	10	30
Michigan D	Kentucky	10	0	0	10
Ohio State D	Michigan State D	10	0	10	20
Ohio State C	Pittsburgh	10	0	10	20
Louisville C	WVU A	10	0	0	10
Michigan State C	WVU B	0	0	0	0
JMU A	Duke A	0	10	0	10
Liberty C	Liberty B	10	0	10	20
VCU A	UNC D	10	10	10	30
Virginia Tech C	UNC B	0	10	10	20
William & Mary B	Liberty A	10	0	10	20
Rutgers B	Columbia A	10	0	10	20
George Mason A	Maryland A	10	0	10	20
George Mason B	Vassar A	10	10	10	30
NYU C	George Mason C	10	0	0	10
Johns Hopkins	Penn	10	10	10	30
Princeton	Lehigh B	10	0	0	10
Maryland C	Maryland B	10	10	0	20
NYU B	Lehigh A	10	0	0	10
Rutgers A	NYU A	10	10	10	30
Rutgers C	Rowan	0	0	10	10
Rutgers D	Stony Brook	0	0	10	10
Columbia B	Vassar B	0	0	0	0
William Woods University A	Chicago B	10	0	10	20
Illinois Blue	WashU Grizzlers	0	0	10	10
Illinois Canada	Illinois Urbana	10	10	10	30
Illinois Champaign	Iowa A	10	10	10	30
Illinois Orange	Rose-Hulman A	10	10	10	30
Indiana A	Chicago A	10	10	10	30
Indiana B	Iowa B	0	0	0	0
Purdue B	Purdue A	10	10	10	30
Purdue C	WashU Grolars	0	0	0	0
Williams A	Amherst A	10	10	10	30
British Columbia B	Washington State	10	0	10	20
Texas	Arizona State A	0	0	0	0
Washington Atlantic	Washington Masu	10	0	10	20
Alberta B	Washington Chinook	10	0	0	10
Washington Steelhead	Washington Chum	10	0	10	20
Auburn A	Georgia Tech F	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Emory A	10	0	10	20
Auburn B	Georgia A	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Clemson C	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech E	Tennessee Tech	10	0	10	20
Mississippi State A	Auburn C	10	10	10	30
Clemson B	Sewanne	10	10	10	30
Chipola College	South Carolina A	10	10	10	30
Tennessee A	Clemson A	0	0	0	0
Vanderbilt B	Vanderbilt C	10	0	0	10
Boston College A	Williams B	10	10	0	20
Boston University A	Tufts B	10	10	10	30
Brown B	Brandeis Mozart	10	0	10	20
Dartmouth A	Tufts A	10	0	0	10
Dartmouth B	MIT A	10	10	10	30
MIT B	Dartmouth C	0	0	0	0
Amherst B	Southern Connecticut State University A	10	0	0	10
Boston College B	Tufts C	10	0	10	20
Brown A	Vermont B	10	10	10	30
Williams C	Brandeis Beethoven	10	0	0	10
Alberta A	Washington Pink	10	10	10	30
British Columbia C	Arizona State B	10	10	10	30
Washington Sockeye	British Columbia A	10	0	0	10
Durham A	Durham C	10	0	0	10
Edinburgh C	Edinburgh B	10	0	0	10
Edinburgh A	Edinburgh D	10	0	0	10
Sheffield B	Sheffield A	10	10	0	20
York	Durham B	0	10	0	10
Oxford	Bristol	10	10	0	20
Cambridge B	Cambridge A	10	10	10	30
Cambridge D	Birmingham	10	0	0	10
Imperial A	Imperial B	10	10	0	20
Imperial C	Imperial D	0	0	10	10
Cambridge E	LSE	10	0	0	10
Cardiff	Southampton	10	0	10	20
Warwick	Cambridge C	0	0	0	0
RIT A	Binghamton A	10	0	0	10
Cornell D	Binghamton B	10	0	0	10
Binghamton C	ESF	0	0	0	0
Cornell C	Cornell B	0	0	0	0
Cornell A	RIT B	10	0	0	10