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In a painting inspired by a magazine, an artist performs this action as his lover Peter Schlesinger, wearing a pink suit jacket, (20[2])looks down. (20[1])In an 1885 (20[1])painting, an artist controversially depicted himself in the bottom right corner performing this action alongside his students. A person performing (20[1])this action is represented by a white blotch of paint behind a protruding yellow (*) rectangle, in front of palm trees and an empty director’s chair, in a painting by David Hockney. A (10[1])boy stands (10[1])on a stone wall and watches (10[1])as young men perform this action (10[1])in a (10[1])Thomas (10[2])Eakins (10[2])painting. (10[3])For 10 points, (10[1])a Georges Seurat painting depicts boys performing what action along the Seine “at (10[2])Asnières (10[1])■END■ (10[13])

ANSWER: swimming [or word forms such as having a swim; accept The Swimming Hole; accept synonyms such as bathing; accept Bathers at Asnières or Une Baignade, Asnières; accept having a dip; accept floating or wading; accept diving or jumping into a pool or jumping into water; prompt on jumping; prompt on splashing; prompt on being naked or nude] (The first painting is Hockney’s Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures). Hockney’s other painting clued is A Bigger Splash.)
<Ganon Evans, Fine Arts - Painting - 1945+&gt; ~28628~ &lt;Editor: Chandler West>
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Hazel DePreist-SullivanHastingsMaggie Walker A2120
Camden WilliamsMexicoMcLean A2120
Abigail LeeThomas Jefferson BBeavercreek2320
Evan SchleckHunter AStrake Jesuit2620
Aditya ShivaswamySt. Mark'sGeorgetown Day4620
Lucas ArdeleanInnovation Academy ABarrington7810
Omkar MaratheWilliam FremdMcLean B8010
Ben YanceyDetroit Catholic Central AThomas Jefferson C8610
Alvin GuoWinston Churchill AKinkaid9210
Beckett GilmoreOwensboroCincinnati Hills9410
Ryan SmithDowningtown STEMOkemos9510
Matias RoaWalter Payton AChattahoochee9510
Isaac McCollumHoover ABelmont9610
Tate OsborneAlabama Cyber TechWest Point9610
Bridget ScrantonNorthmont BGreat Valley9710
Bryce CruiseHeightsLivingston B9710
David BlackUniversity LabJohns Creek B9710
Sonny BracamontesHoover BCarl Sandburg10010
Ryan DaiCarbondaleSaint Joseph11310
Jack MangrumInnovation Academy BFreeman11310
Sophia WuLivingston ALambert11410
Philip CalabreseDetroit Catholic Central BElkhorn North11510
Brady ShihDetroit Catholic Central CWinston Churchill B11510
Campbell BrownSt. ThomasFairfield County AT11510
Sky HongChoate Rosemary HallMaggie Walker C11510
Eli CaseyNorfolk Academic GuildLindbergh11510
Michelle YuRichard Montgomery ANorthmont A11510
Nam DangRichard Montgomery BHunter B11510
Aditya KhambekarSeven LakesDuPage County AT11510
Janani GollapalliLightridgeSolon11510
Eeshan GudapatiStevenson BStevenson A11510
Rohan DalalJohns Creek AThomas Jefferson A11510
Sophia GuoThomas Jefferson DCanyon Crest11510
Joshua StudeeWalter Payton BMaggie Walker B11510

Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?TUHConv. %Power %Neg %Average Buzz
2024 PACE NSC06/08/2024Y34100%15%0%93.38