Question
An early patron of this artist, John Quinn, displayed his pieces such as Portrait of Mademoiselle Pogany at the Armory Show to popularize modern sculpture in the US. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this sculptor whose international commissions included a never-constructed Temple of Meditation for the Maharajah of Indore. Three World War I memorial sculptures are found in an ensemble by this artist at Târgu Jiu (“TER-goo JEE-oo”).
ANSWER: Constantin Brâncuși (“brin-KOOSH”)
[10e] Brâncuși’s Temple of Meditation would have included many of his sculptures of these animals that he gifted to the Maharajah. Many abstracted forms of these animals by Brâncuși are depicted “In Space” and “In Flight.”
ANSWER: birds
[10h] A group of art patrons admire Brâncuși’s phallic sculpture Princess X in this artist’s Distinguished Air. Another painting by this artist is based on a William Carlos Williams poem about witnessing a speeding fire truck.
ANSWER: Charles Demuth [or Charles Henry Buckius Demuth]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 9 | 20.00 | 100% | 56% | 44% |
Data
| Princeton A | Bard A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Columbia A | Rutgers B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Haverford | Penn A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | NYU B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Yale A | Penn B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Yale B | Rowan A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Vassar | Yale C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Princeton B | Cornell C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia C | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |