Les Nabis - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

Along with several of his fellow students at the Académie Julian, Maurice Denis helped found this group based on the philosophy of positivism. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this group, whose members also included Pierre Bonnard. Paul Sérusier’s painting The Talisman is considered the first painting by this group, whose name was derived from the Hebrew word for “prophet.”

ANSWER: Les Nabis (“lay na-BEE”)

[10e] The members of Les Nabis can be seen discussing this artist in Denis’s painting titled “Homage to” this artist. That painting shows one of this Post-Impressionist’s many still lifes of fruit.

ANSWER: Paul Cézanne

[10h] Following the disbandment of Les Nabis, Denis painted a series of Fauvist-inspired mythological works set at these locations. Denis’s Bacchus and Ariadne shows a nude family at one of these places inspired by his villa at Perros-Guirec.

ANSWER: beach [prompt on the ocean]

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Summary


Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	8.00	80%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	7	8.57	57%	14%	14%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	1	10.00	0%	0%	100%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	9	10.00	44%	33%	22%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	5	6.00	60%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	6	15.00	83%	50%	17%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	11.67	75%	33%	8%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	6	11.67	83%	33%	0%

Data


Michigan State	CWRU B	0	0	0	0
Michigan A	Ohio State C	0	10	0	10
Michigan C	Ohio State B	0	10	0	10
CWRU A	Pittsburgh	0	10	0	10
James Madison B	Liberty C	0	0	0	0
VCU	Liberty A	0	10	0	10
Liberty B	James Madison A	0	10	0	10
North Carolina C	South Carolina A	0	0	10	10
South Carolina B	Wake Forest	0	0	0	0
Virginia Tech A	Virginia Tech B	10	10	0	20
William and Mary	Virginia	0	10	0	10
NC State A	North Carolina B	0	0	10	10
Illinois A	Chicago A	10	10	0	20
Purdue B	Chicago B	0	0	0	0
Chicago D	Northwestern B	0	0	0	0
Chicago E	Indiana C	0	0	0	0
Indiana A	Illinois B	10	10	0	20
Illinois C	Notre Dame A	0	10	0	10
Indiana B	Notre Dame B	10	0	10	20
Northwestern C	Northwestern D	0	10	10	20
Chicago C	Purdue A	0	0	0	0
Southern Connecticut State	Bowdoin A	0	0	0	0
Dartmouth A	Brown	0	10	0	10
Dartmouth B	Bowdoin B	0	0	0	0
MIT	Harvard B	0	10	0	10
Yale	Brandeis B	0	10	0	10
Sewanee	Kentucky	0	0	10	10
Alabama A	Louisville A	0	10	0	10
Bruin	Mississipi State	10	10	0	20
Louisville B	Tennessee A	10	10	0	20
WashU A	Alabama B	10	10	0	20
WashU B	Tennessee B	0	10	0	10
UCL	Birmingham	10	10	0	20
Manchester	Bristol	10	10	0	20
Cambridge B	Cambridge A	0	10	10	20
Cardiff	Cambridge C	0	0	0	0
Oxford C	City St. George's	0	0	0	0
Oxford A	Edinburgh A	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh B	Imperial B	0	10	0	10
Southampton A	LSE	0	10	0	10
Montpellier	Durham	10	0	0	10
Oxford B	Warwick B	0	10	0	10
Southampton B	Imperial C	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Warwick A	0	10	0	10
Catholic	NYU C	0	0	0	0
John Jay	Vassar	10	10	0	20
Maryland B	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	NYU A	10	10	0	20
NYU B	Maryland A	0	10	0	10
Rutgers A	Georgetown	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Ohio State A	0	10	0	10