Packet 3: Bonus 6
Sigmar Polke (“POLL-kuh”) responded to this movement’s nationalism by riffing on its name when naming a 1960s German anti-consumerist art exhibition. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this movement, whose major artists included Isaak Brodsky. This official art style of the Soviet Union idealized Marxist history and values.
ANSWER: socialist realism [prompt on realism; reject “social realism”] (With Gerhard Richter and Konrad Leug, Sigmar Polke created Capitalist Realism.)
[10m] Opposition to the abstract works of this artist after the Russian Revolution led him to leave the USSR for Germany, where he cofounded The Blue Rider with Franz Marc.
ANSWER: Wassily Kandinsky [or Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky]
[10e] Socialist realism was in decline by 1960, when LIFE magazine ran a story contrasting an expressionist portrait by Anatoly Zverev with a traditional portrait of this predecessor of Stalin.
ANSWER: Vladimir Lenin [or Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov]
<Visual Fine Arts — Joel Miles> | SHOW-ME Four Packet 3
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 16.00 | 100% | 44% | 16% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rube Goldberg XIX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 15 | 16.00 | 100% | 47% | 13% |
| SHOW-ME Four Nationwide HS | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |
| SPOOKY IX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 20% | 20% |