Question
Answer the following about the artists who founded the Spiral group, a Harlem-based collective of African American artists, for 10 points each.
[10e] The group was co-founded by Romare (“ROH-muh-ree”) Bearden, whose works in this medium include The Calabash. This medium was used for Hannah Höch’s Cut with the Kitchen Knife as well as synthetic cubist works by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
ANSWER: collage [accept photomontage]
[10h] This co-founder of the Spiral group shifted from a socialist realist style to the abstract expressionism of political paintings such as Harlem Turns White and the jazz-influenced Twilight Sounds.
ANSWER: Norman Lewis [or Norman Wilfred Lewis]
[10m] Spiral group co-founder Charles Alston sculpted a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. that is now exhibited in this room alongside Childe Hassam’s The Avenue in the Rain and Rembrandt Peale’s “Porthole Portrait.”
ANSWER: Oval Office [prompt on the White House] (The portrait is of George Washington.)
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Summary
2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 23 | 15.22 | 83% | 65% | 4% |
Data
Michigan | Berkeley A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Florida | Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Columbia A | Brown | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Toronto B | Chicago D | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Claremont Colleges | Ottawa | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Cornell A | Columbia B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Chicago A | Cornell B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Georgia Tech | South Carolina | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
WUSTL A | Harvard | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Illinois | McGill | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Iowa State | Virginia | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Johns Hopkins | Minnesota B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Kentucky | Indiana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NYU | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Waterloo | North Carolina B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Northwestern | Maryland | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Penn | Yale B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Duke | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Stanford | Truman State | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Yale A | Texas | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Toronto A | North Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Vanderbilt | Purdue | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
WUSTL B | Arizona State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |