Arshile Gorky - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

In 2021, a painting by this artist depicting green foliage wrapped in cloudy blues was discovered to be taped beneath another work by this artist entitled The Limit. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this artist who used his trademark biomorphic shapes in that 1947 painting, Untitled, Virginia Summer. This artist depicted Armenian gardens in The Liver Is the Cock's Comb.

ANSWER: Arshile Gorky [or Vosdanigh Manough Adoian]

[10h] Untitled, Virginia Summer was painted the same year as this other Gorky painting, which depicts a thin black leg with a bright red foot. This painting was likely a response to Gorky's studio burning and his cancer diagnosis.

ANSWER: Agony

[10e] 1947 was also the year Gorky's The Liver Is the Cock's Comb was shown in Paris as part of this art movement's final exhibition. Artists from this movement include Gorky's friend André Breton and Salvador Dalí.

ANSWER: surrealism [or surrealists]

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2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	14.29	100%	29%	14%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	15.56	100%	56%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%

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Brown	MIT B	0	0	10	10
Harvard	RIT	10	0	10	20
MIT A	Yale	0	0	10	10
Pittsburgh	CWRU	0	0	10	10
Ohio State A	Michigan B	0	0	10	10
Michigan A	Ohio State B	10	0	10	20
Columbia B	Columbia A	10	0	10	20
John Jay	JHU B	10	0	10	20
Maryland A	Maryland B	10	0	10	20
JHU A	Mount Sinai	0	0	10	10
Maryland C	NYU A	0	0	10	10
Swarthmore	NYU B	0	0	10	10
Texas B	Oklahoma	0	0	10	10
Texas A	Central Oklahoma	0	0	10	10
Purdue B	Northwestern B	0	0	10	10
UChicago B	UChicago C	0	0	10	10
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rusty shackleford	abg academy	10	0	10	20
UChicago A	Illinois	10	0	10	20
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Ottawa 67s	Toronto Sunshine Bubbles	0	0	10	10
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Berkeley A	Free Win	10	0	10	20
In Search of Lost Clues	Stanford A	10	0	10	20
Berkeley B	Stanford B	10	0	10	20
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Bristold	Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh	0	0	10	10
Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli	Chimp Brisket	10	0	10	20
Hail to the Sheaf	Coughing Baby	10	0	10	20
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Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance	To buzz is to be perceived	0	0	10	10
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question mark	Of Mice and Penn	10	0	10	20
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VT A	UNC A	0	0	10	10
Truman State	WashU Kiki	10	0	10	20
VJ Edgecombe School of Interior Design - Edwardsville	WashU Bouba	0	0	10	10
McGill B	Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça	0	0	10	10