Question
In a painting inspired by a magazine, an artist performs this action as his lover Peter Schlesinger, wearing a pink suit jacket, looks down. In an 1885 painting, an artist controversially depicted himself in the bottom right corner performing this action alongside his students. A person performing 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 boy stands on a stone wall and watches as young men perform this action in a Thomas Eakins painting. For 10 points, a Georges Seurat painting depicts boys performing what action along the Seine “at Asnières ■END■
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+> ~28628~ <Editor: Chandler West>
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Summary
Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
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2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 34 | 100% | 15% | 0% | 93.38 |