Round 13: Tossup 17

This artist made a blue line drawing of a gas lamp encircled by a black tube for a portrait of Paul Haviland. This artist overlaid feminine faces, foliage, and classical full-body poses in the Transparencies series. A cluster of black circles overlap in this artist’s Fauvist painting Caoutchouc (10[1])(“cow-CHOOK”), sometimes called the first abstract painting. (10[1])Modern dance inspired this artist to show curved masses (-5[1])in the cubist painting The Dance at the Spring, (-5[1])shown at the Armory Show. (10[1])This artist of Cuban heritage (-5[1])depicted a camera (-5[3])with its bellows extended pointing to the word (10[1])“ideal” in his “mechanomorphic” portrait of Alfred (10[1])Stieglitz. This founder (-5[1])of the magazine (10[1])391 used (10[1])the labels homme and femme (10[1])on his painting of two interlocking gears. (10[1])For 10 (10[1])points, name this French Dada artist known for images of mechanisms like (10[1])Machine Turn Quickly. ■END■ (10[5]0[10])

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