Question
The Summer Exhibition rejected a 1913 self-portrait by Laura Knight in which she depicts herself painting in this genre. For 10 points each:
[10m] Women were long banned from painting what genre at the Royal Academy? Mary Richardson slashed a Velázquez painting in this genre that depicts an impossible reflection in a mirror.
ANSWER: nudes [accept nude portraits or paintings of naked people; prompt on a painting of Venus] (The Velázquez painting is the Rokeby Venus.)
[10e] A Guerrilla Girls poster asked if women had to be naked to get into this large New York museum that hosts an annual gala.
ANSWER: Metropolitan Museum of Art [accept the Met; accept the Met Gala]
[10h] This art historian contrasted the “huddled and defenceless” naked body with presentations of “ideal form” in The Nude. Mary Beard presented a sequel to this historian’s popular BBC series Civilisation.
ANSWER: Sir Kenneth Clark [or Kenneth Mackenzie Clark]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 12.22 | 100% | 11% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida | 2024-11-16 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 20.00 | 89% | 56% | 56% |
Data
| UChicago D | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UChicago A | Notre Dame | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue A | UIUC C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UIUC D | Purdue C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Indiana A | UChicago C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| UChicago B | UIUC A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UIUC B | Purdue D | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WashU B | Purdue B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WashU D | SIUE A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |