Question
A corpse-like Ida Rubinstein lies flat on a dark blue background in this artist’s painting Le Trajet. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this American portraitist known for her frequent use of grayscale in her paintings. This artist’s painting of a nude woman leaning on a bed, White Azaleas, drew comparisons to Edouard Manet’s Olympia.
ANSWER: Romaine Brooks [or Beatrice Romaine Goddard]
[10m] Ida Rubinstein wears one of these objects on a black coat in a Brooks painting set after the Battle of Ypres. Joseph Beuys’s Homogenous Infiltration series depicts these symbols on various felt-covered objects.
ANSWER: a red cross [prompt on cross]
[10e] In a painting of this figure “weeping,” Brooks painted Rubinstein lying on a bed in front of a balcony’s railing. This figure looks away from the viewer and into a mirror in a painting by Diego Velázquez.
ANSWER: Venus [accept Weeping Venus; accept La Venus triste; accept Rokeby Venus; accept Toilet of Venus]
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