Packet L: Bonus 18
Hélio Oiticica (“AY-lee-oo oy-chee-SEE-kuh”), Lygia Clark (“LEE-zhuh clark”), and several other Brazilian artists of the Neoconcrete movement were inspired by a 1951 retrospective on a student of this school named Max Bill. For 10 points each:
[10m] Paul Klee (“clay”) and Wassily Kandinsky taught at what functionalist, Weimar-era design school founded in Germany by Walter Gropius?
ANSWER: Bauhaus (“BAU-house”) [or Staatliches Bauhaus]
[10h] Clark’s painting Unity No. 1 depicts one of these things with a white border and projects slightly from the wall. Kazimir Malevich painted a black one of these objects like a religious icon for a Suprematist exhibition.
ANSWER: squares [accept Black Square or Chernyi Kvadrat; prompt on shapes or quadrilaterals or rectangles]
[10e] Oiticica’s Cosmacocas installations were inspired by his cocaine highs, during which he wrote an ode dedicated to this Romanian sculptor of The Endless Column and Bird in Space.
ANSWER: Constantin Brâncuși (“brin-KOOSH”) [accept “Brancusias”]
<Editors, Painting and Sculpture> | Packet L
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 102 | 16.76 | 56% | 75% | 37% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brock A | Toronto F | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| McMaster C | Toronto H | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Queen's A | Toronto I | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | M |
| Toronto B | Waterloo A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | M |
| Toronto C | McMaster A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Toronto D | Toronto A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MHE |
| Toronto E | Waterloo C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MHE |
| Toronto G | McMaster B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Waterloo B | Guelph A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern California | Main | ✓ | 7 | 15.71 | 57% | 71% | 29% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | Main | ✓ | 9 | 11.11 | 44% | 44% | 22% |
| Great Lakes | Main | ✓ | 11 | 20.00 | 73% | 91% | 36% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | ✓ | 5 | 20.00 | 80% | 60% | 60% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | ✓ | 12 | 16.67 | 58% | 75% | 33% |
| Midwest | Main | ✓ | 9 | 20.00 | 78% | 67% | 56% |
| Northeast | Main | ✓ | 11 | 19.09 | 55% | 91% | 46% |
| Pacific | Main | ✓ | 8 | 17.50 | 63% | 88% | 25% |
| Southeast | Main | ✓ | 12 | 20.00 | 75% | 75% | 50% |
| Upstate NY | Main | ✓ | 5 | 6.00 | 0% | 60% | 0% |
| UK (North) | UK | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 0% | 80% | 40% |
| UK (South) | UK | ✓ | 8 | 15.00 | 38% | 75% | 38% |