abstract expressionism - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

Answer the following about artists championed by art critic Clement Greenberg, for 10 points each.

[10e] In the essay “American-Type Painting,” Greenberg promoted artists from this movement, focusing particularly on the “all-over” paintings of Jackson Pollock.

ANSWER: abstract expressionism [or abstract expressionists; or AbEx; prompt on New York School; prompt on action painting or drip painting by asking “what broader movement is that a part o?f”; reject “abstraction” or “expressionism”]

[10h] In the late 1960s, Greenberg befriended a Guyanese artist with this first name who created several “map paintings.” Another artist with this first name used black, geometric patterns in pieces such as Die Fahne Hoch! (“dee FAH-nuh HOKE”).

ANSWER: Frank [accept Frank Bowling or Richard Sheridan Patrick Michael Aloysius Franklin Bowling; accept Frank Stella or Frank Philip Stella]

[10m] Frank Stella’s belief that painting must have this quality led Greenberg to call him a “post-painterly” abstract artist. The cover of Kanye West’s Graduation by Takashi Murakami exemplifies a “super” form of this quality.

ANSWER: flatness [or being flat; accept Superflat; prompt on being 2-dimensional or 2D]

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California	Main	Y	5	24.00	100%	80%	60%
Canada	Main	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
Florida	Main	Y	6	13.33	100%	17%	17%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Midwest	Main	Y	6	10.00	67%	17%	17%
North	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
Northeast	Main	Y	3	13.33	67%	33%	33%
Overflow	Main	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	9	13.33	100%	33%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	2	10.00	50%	0%	50%
Southeast	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
UK	Main	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	4	10.00	75%	0%	25%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	14.00	80%	40%	20%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	5	18.00	80%	80%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	1	0.00	0%	0%	0%

Data


Berkeley B	Stanford C	10	0	10	20
Berkeley C	UCSC	10	0	10	20
Berkeley D	Stanford A	10	10	10	30
Stanford B	Berkeley E	10	10	0	20
Berkeley A	Berkeley F	10	10	10	30
UCLA A	UCLA D	10	10	10	30
Toronto H	McMaster C	10	0	0	10
Toronto A	Toronto D	10	10	10	30
Ottawa	Toronto B	10	0	0	10
Toronto K	Toronto I	10	0	0	10
Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto G	10	0	0	10
CWRU A	OSU A	10	0	0	10
OSU C	Pitt B	10	10	10	30
OSU D	Pitt A	10	0	0	10
UCF A	UF D	10	0	10	20
Queen's A	Carleton	10	0	0	10
Clemson A	North Carolina B	10	0	0	10
Tusculum	North Carolina A	0	0	0	0
Liberty B	South Carolina B	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech B	Tennessee A	0	0	0	0
Virginia Tech A	Tennessee B	10	0	0	10
Virginia A	South Carolina A	10	10	10	30
George Mason A	Notre Dame E	10	0	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	Georgetown B	10	0	10	20
Maryland A	Maryland C	10	0	0	10
NYU A	VCU A	10	10	10	30
Penn A	NYU B	10	0	0	10
Princeton A	Rowan A	10	10	10	30
Swarthmore A	Columbia A	10	0	0	10
Columbia C	Rutgers B	0	0	0	0
Truman State	WashU D	10	10	10	30
WashU A	WashU C	10	0	0	10
Chicago C	Chicago B	10	0	0	10
Illinois A	UIC	10	0	10	20
Indiana A	Michigan B	10	0	10	20
Illinois C	Kentucky	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame A	Chicago A	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame C	Notre Dame B	10	0	0	10
Louisville A	Notre Dame D	10	0	0	10
Purdue A	Michigan A	10	0	0	10
Louisville B	Purdue C	10	0	0	10
Carleton	Iowa State	10	0	0	10
Minnesota A	Nebraska	0	10	0	10
Brown C	Bowdoin A	10	0	0	10
Brown A	Yale A	10	0	10	20
Cornell-UG	Brown B	10	0	10	20
Harvard	Tufts B	10	0	0	10
British Columbia D	Simon Fraser	10	0	0	10
Washington A	British Columbia A	10	0	0	10
Washington B	British Columbia B	10	0	0	10
Northwestern A	Texas A	10	0	0	10
Arizona State A	Northwestern C	10	10	0	20
Northwestern B	Alberta B	10	0	0	10
Tulsa	Texas B	0	0	0	0
Auburn A	Huntsville A	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Huntsville B	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech C	10	0	10	20
UAB A	Georgia Tech A	0	0	0	0
Bruin A	Vanderbilt B	10	10	10	30
Warwick A	Birmingham A	0	0	0	0
Oxford A	Bristol A	10	0	10	20
Imperial A	LSE A	10	0	10	20
Manchester A	Sheffield A	10	0	10	20
Cambridge A	Southampton A	10	10	10	30
Rochester	RIT B	0	0	0	0