Question
Two women in black-and-white are seated against a red background in this artist’s painting The Conversation. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this artist who appears with yellow skin and block arms in a 1937 portrait. A man who had previously mused over Marie-Thérèse Walter created a series of this artist weeping.
ANSWER: Dora Maar [or Henriette Theodora Markovitch]
[10e] Picasso’s Weeping Woman series of Maar was his immediate response to the 1937 bombing of this Spanish town, which he later depicted in a scene featuring an eye-like lightbulb above a screaming horse.
ANSWER: Guernica [or Gernika]
[10m] Maar’s many surrealist photographs include one of a hand emerging from one of these objects. A woman modeled on Simonetta Vespucci stands on one of these objects in a 1486 painting.
ANSWER: shell [or seashell; accept hand-shell] (The painting is Botticelli’s Birth of Venus.)
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