Question
This art critic espoused the “moral character” of Jean-Baptiste Greuze’s painting and praised the work of Joseph Vernet in his Promenade Vernet. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this art critic, who praised Jean Siméon Chardin as a “great magician” whose still-lifes represented “nature itself.”
ANSWER: Denis Diderot
[10e] Diderot was especially fond of Vernet’s paintings of these events, one of which occurs amidst a storm. Delacroix’s Raft of the Medusa depicts the suffering survivors of one of these events.
ANSWER: shipwrecks [accept equivalent descriptions of ships sinking]
[10m] In contrast, Diderot scathingly reviewed the “infantile garlands” and “chubby crimson bottoms” by this artist, who painted Venus against a backdrop of green curtains in her toilette for Madame de Pompadour.
ANSWER: François Boucher
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Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Toronto A | Waterloo Basic | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |