Junya Watanabe’s Spring 2026 collection paired deconstructed jeans with shirts emblazoned with portraits by Elizabeth Peyton and this artist. For 10 points each:
[10h] Watanabe designed a shirt printed with what earlier artist’s portrait of Hans Jæger reclining on a sofa in a blue overcoat? A black-and-white self-portrait of this artist depicts him “with Skeleton Arm.”
ANSWER: Edvard Munch
[10m] On another shirt from the collection, Watanabe printed a self-portrait of Tove Jansson performing this action. While studying in Antwerp, Vincent van Gogh painted a “skull of a skeleton” performing this action as a joke.
ANSWER: smoking [or smoke; accept specific forms of smoking such as smoking a pipe or smoking a cigarette] (The second line refers to van Gogh’s Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette.)
[10e] Many of Watanabe’s blazers in the collection used prints inspired by the patterns of this mid-18th-century movement exemplified by Jean-Antoine Watteau and Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
ANSWER: Rococo [or Late Baroque; prompt on Baroque]
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