Question
This artist’s barbaric and childlike drawings are described in a work that praises him as a “passionate spectator” and a “man of the world.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this French watercolor artist and Crimean War correspondent whom Charles Baudelaire declared “the painter of modern life.”
ANSWER: Constantin Guys (“gheez”) [or Ernest-Adolphe Guys de Saint-Hélène; prompt on M.G.]
[10h] In one of Guys’s many depictions of this class of working-class French women, two of them appear in front of a pair of top hat-wearing men. Patricia Tillburg analyzed the midinette as a descendant of these women, whose French name reflects their simple clothes.
ANSWER: grisettes [or grizettes; accept Two Grisettes]
[10e] Baudelaire claimed that Guys would likely ignore “ancient statuary” for an opportunity to “savor” a portrait of a woman by Thomas Lawrence or this other artist, the first president of the Royal Academy of Arts.
ANSWER: Joshua Reynolds
<SM, Painting and Sculpture>
Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 11 | 11.82 | 100% | 18% | 0% |
Data
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Lisan al-Quib | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Punished "Venom" BHSU | var merchants | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | Les Missourables | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| The Empire Bikes Back | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| BHSU B | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| We Need New Names | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |