Packet 10: Bonus 20
A woman’s face peers out from amidst rectangular patches of color in this artist’s portrait of his wife “among verticals.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this artist who used blue parallelograms to evoke stained glass in his painting The Cathedral. Along with a husband-and-wife couple, this artist pioneered an offshoot of Cubism known for abstraction and bright colors.
ANSWER: František Kupka
[10m] Kupka’s The Cathedral was inspired by his studies of this Gothic cathedral, whose stained glass works include The Blue Virgin as well as three rose windows.
ANSWER: Chartres Cathedral
[10e] Kupka’s abstraction was partly motivated by his involvement in this spiritual movement, which also inspired Nicholas Roerich and Wassily Kandinsky and was founded by H.P. Blavatsky.
ANSWER: Theosophy [or the Theosophical Society]
<KN, Visual Fine Arts> | NAFTA-Packet-10
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 18.10 | 95% | 43% | 43% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Noah Sheidlower | Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Shipping Down from Ballston | Habitat 67 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Untitled Keyal Team | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 33% | 67% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 0% | 100% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 26.67 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 40% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |