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This artist painted a moonlit urban landscape in The Petrified City, made during a trip to Angkor Wat after the end of his ménage à trois with Gala and Paul Éluard. Lewd children’s rhymes inspired the title of a painting by this artist whose main figure is modeled on a Konkomba corn bin. This husband of Dorothea Tanning cut up Victorian pulp fiction for A Week of Kindness and other collage novels. An open gate and a knob protrude from a painting by this artist (-5[1])in which a girl holds a knife up to a bird. This artist, whose alter ego was named Loplop, (10[2])scratched paint and rubbed pencil onto uneven surfaces in his methods of grattage and frottage. For 10 points, what (10[1])German-born surrealist painted Ubu Imperator, The Elephant Celebes, and Two Children (10[1])Are Threatened by a Nightingale? ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: Max Ernst [or Maximilian Maria Ernst]
<Toronto B, Painting and Sculpture>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Nathan ZhangCornell BGeorge Washington A84-5
Aum MundheRutgers ANYU B10310
Eshan PantNYU AGeorge Washington B10310
Jerry VinokurovJohn Jay CollegeMaryland B12210
William OrrYale AHaverford A13310
Sam MacchiVassar AColumbia C13910
Ivvone ZhouPenn AHaverford B1390

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