Question
This island’s colonial depiction in Jean-Gabriel Charvet’s (“shar-vay’s”) wallpaper Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique (“leh soh-vazh deh lah mer pah-see-feek”) inspired Lisa Reihana’s scrolling video in Pursuit of Venus [infected]. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this island where women create tifaifai quilts. Paul Gauguin (“goh-gawn”) painted When Will You Marry? on his second trip to this island.
ANSWER: Tahiti [or Otaheite; accept Kingdom of Tahiti or Royaume de Tahiti]
[10h] Gauguin recounted his first trip to Tahiti in this woodcut album named for the fragrant gardenias of Tahitian women. King Pōmare V is the only man in this book, which features an “ethnographic” photo of a Tongan woman.
ANSWER: Noa Noa [or Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal]
[10m] Gauguin created this painting of his teenage “wife” Teha’amana on his first trip to Tahiti. Griselda Pollock has read this painting as a response to Manet’s Olympia for its nude, prone subject and enigmatic figure in the background.
ANSWER: Spirit of the Dead Watching [or Manao tupapau; or Watching the Spirit of the Dead or Spirit of the Dead Watching Over or Spirit of the Dead Watches]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Penn A | WUSTL B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |