Jean-Michel Basquiat - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

Two pink-faced police officers hold batons in a painting by this artist that features the word DEFACEMENT followed by a question mark in the background. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this artist of The Death of Michael Stewart. A cage-like top hat sits on top of a black figure in this artist’s painting Irony of Negro Policeman.

ANSWER: Jean-Michel Basquiat

[10e] Irony of Negro Policeman was painted shortly after Basquiat’s move away from this medium towards gallery art. Banksy is another artist who works in this medium.

ANSWER: graffiti [accept street art; prompt on spray paint; prompt on murals or wall art]

[10h] Irony of Negro Policeman was painted the same year as this other Basquiat painting, one of the few works of white men painted by Basquiat. This painting depicts a menacing white police figure wearing a peaked cap.

ANSWER: La Hara

<EW, Painting and Sculpture>

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Summary


California (South)	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	11.00	100%	10%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	7	11.43	100%	14%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	14.17	100%	42%	0%

Data


Arizona State	UC Santa Barbara	0	10	10
UCLA B	UCSD A	0	10	10
Toronto Metropolitan	Carleton University	0	10	10
Guelph	McMaster A	0	10	10
Queen's	Toronto B	10	10	20
Brock	Toronto D	0	10	10
Toronto E	Simon Fraser	0	10	10
Waterloo B	Toronto F	0	10	10
McGill B	UBC A	0	10	10
Ottawa	UBC B	0	10	10
McGill A	Waterloo A	0	10	10
Toronto G	Western B	0	10	10
NC State B	Liberty B	0	10	10
North Carolina A	Liberty C	0	10	10
Liberty A	North Carolina C	0	10	10
North Carolina B	South Carolina B	0	10	10
Virginia Tech A	Virginia	10	10	20
Virginia Tech B	William and Mary	0	10	10
UCLA A	UCSD B	10	10	20
Indiana B	Chicago E	0	10	10
Chicago B	Chicago D	0	10	10
Chicago A	Chicago C	0	10	10
Notre Dame B	Northwestern D	0	10	10
Purdue A	Illinois B	10	10	20
Illinois A	Illinois C	0	10	10
Brandeis A	Harvard B	0	10	10
Brandeis B	MIT	10	10	20
Brown	Yale	10	10	20
Iowa State	Carleton College	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	Missouri A	0	10	10
Washington A	Claremont	0	10	10
Birmingham	LSE	10	10	20
Cambridge A	Imperial A	10	10	20
Manchester	Cambridge B	10	10	20
Cambridge C	Oxford C	0	10	10
Imperial B	Durham	10	10	20
Edinburgh A	Bristol	0	10	10
Southampton A	Edinburgh B	0	10	10
Cardiff	Imperial C	0	10	10
Montpellier	UCL	0	10	10
Oxford B	Southampton B	0	10	10
Warwick A	Oxford A	10	10	20
Warwick B	City St. George's	0	10	10
Harvard A	Bowdoin A	0	10	10
Southern Connecticut State	Bowdoin B	0	10	10
Indiana A	Northwestern B	0	10	10