Packet 1: Bonus 1
This artist depicted his mother Ernestine Faivre sewing in a grainy drawing made on toothy Michallet paper. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this artist, whose “chromoluminarist” style was influenced by scientists like Ogden Rood and Michel-Eugène Chevreul. A row of can-can dancers in red kick their legs up high in this artist’s painting Le Chahut (“shah-OO”).
ANSWER: Georges Seurat [or Georges Pierre Seurat]
[10h] In his drawing of his mother, Seurat achieved strong control over shading using this medium, which is less smudgy than charcoal. This medium, which is named for its 19th century French inventor, is made by mixing graphite with clay.
ANSWER: Conté crayons [or Conté sticks; accept Nicolas-Jacques Conté; prompt on crayons]
[10e] Seurat used his Conté drawing L’écho as a study for a hat-wearing boy in a painting that depicts the boy among those doing this activity at Asnières (“ah-NYAIR”). Six naked men do this activity in a painting by Thomas Eakins.
ANSWER: bathing [or swimming; or word forms like bathe; accept Bathers at Asnières or Une Baignade, Asnières or The Swimming Hole or The Old Swimming Hole]
<KN, Visual Fine Arts> | NAFTA-Packet-1
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | 13.41 | 100% | 24% | 10% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley A | Not Old! (Old) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr. | Stanford B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Stanford A | Team 8 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Team 7 | Berkeley B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 33% | 50% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |