Question
Henri Matisse’s cut-outs were influenced in part by the elaborate geometric patterns that adorn works in this medium made by the Kuba people. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this material that is often dyed brown with fermented mud in Malian bògòlanfini and resist-dyed with wax in the Javanese batik. This material is also used for African wax-prints and in many garments like the dashiki.
ANSWER: cloth [or clothing; or textiles; or weaving; or tapestry; or fabric]
[10h] This British-Nigerian artist and member of the Young British Artists uses many colorful Ankara cloths in his signature headless mannequin sculptures like the one in his The Swing (After Fragonard).
ANSWER: Yinka Shonibare (“YEEN-kah sho-nih-BAH-ray”)
[10m] Ghanaian artist El Anatsui uses bottle caps to produce his own cloth following the same method used to create this traditional cloth. Many African-American students wear stoles made from this cloth at their graduations.
ANSWER: kente cloth
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Summary
2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 56% | 67% | 56% |
Data
Columbia A | Penn B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Columbia C | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cornell C | Haverford | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Princeton A | NYU B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Yale A | Penn A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Princeton B | Vassar | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Rutgers A | Rowan A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
NYU A | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Yale C | Rutgers B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |