Jackson Pollock - 2024 PACE NSC

Question

This artist took offense at Bruno Alfieri’s description of his creative process in Time, sending a telegraph to the magazine stating, “NO CHAOS DAMN IT.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this artist who was mentored on breaking free from the strictures of his teacher Thomas Hart Benton by the printmaker Stanley William Hayter. This alcoholic artist died in a car crash aged 44.

ANSWER: Jackson Pollock [or Paul Jackson Pollock]

[10h] In the 1990s, conservators at MoMA unsuccessfully tried to recreate Pollock paintings by studying the films this German-American photographer made of Pollock at work.

ANSWER: Hans Namuth

[10e] Pollock was a central figure in this modern art movement, which was championed by the critic Clement Greenberg.

ANSWER: Abstract Expressionism [or AbEx; accept action painting or gestural abstraction; prompt on the New York School; prompt on drip painting; prompt on abstract art or abstraction; reject “Expressionism”]

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Data

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total
Alabama Cyber Tech	Johns Creek A	10	0	10	20
Beavercreek	Barrington	10	0	10	20
Canyon Crest	Hastings	0	0	10	10
Carbondale	Detroit Catholic Central C	0	0	10	10
Carl Sandburg	Elkhorn North	0	0	0	0
Chattahoochee	Cincinnati Hills	10	0	10	20
Choate Rosemary Hall	Johns Creek B	0	0	10	10
Downingtown STEM	Georgetown Day	0	0	10	10
Durham AT	Thomas Jefferson C	10	0	10	20
Fairfield County AT	Kinkaid	0	10	10	20
Freeman	Stevenson B	0	0	10	10
Heights	Belmont	0	10	10	20
Hoover B	Walter Payton B	0	0	10	10
Hunter B	St. Thomas	0	0	0	0
Innovation Academy B	Hoover A	0	0	0	0
James W. Robinson	Great Valley	0	0	10	10
Livingston B	Solon	0	0	10	10
Maggie Walker A	Lindbergh	0	0	10	10
Maggie Walker B	Okemos	0	0	10	10
Maggie Walker C	Detroit Catholic Central B	0	0	10	10
Mexico	Hunter A	0	0	10	10
Norfolk Academic Guild	DuPage County AT	0	0	0	0
Northmont A	Livingston A	10	0	10	20
Northmont B	Bloomington	10	0	10	20
Owensboro	Walter Payton A	10	0	10	20
Richard Montgomery A	Detroit Catholic Central A	10	0	10	20
Richard Montgomery B	University Lab	10	0	10	20
Saint Joseph	Winston Churchill B	0	0	10	10
Seven Lakes	St. Xavier	0	0	10	10
St. Mark's	Lambert	0	0	10	10
Stevenson A	Lightridge	10	0	10	20
Strake Jesuit	Thomas Jefferson A	10	10	10	30
Thomas Jefferson B	Innovation Academy A	10	0	10	20
Thomas Jefferson D	McLean B	10	0	10	20
West Point	McLean A	0	0	10	10
Winston Churchill A	William Fremd	0	0	10	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	Heard	PPB	Easy %	Medium %	Hard %
2024 PACE NSC	06/08/2024	Y	36	13.33	89%	36%	8%