From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, August 10, 2023 at 5:05:41 PM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:   
   >    
   > * Game 7, Round 2 - Arts - Artistic Movements    
   >    
   > Given a brief description and the names of three associated artists,    
   > identify the artistic school, group, or movement.    
   >    
   > 1. Characterised by fragmented and geometric forms that sought    
   > to depict multiple perspectives and dimensions simultaneously.    
   > Artists: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger.    
      
   Cubism   
      
   > 2. "To resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream    
   > and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality." Artists:    
   > Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte.    
      
   Surrealism   
      
   > 3. A reaction to academic art with an emphasis on ordinary subject    
   > matter and accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities.    
   > Artists: Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Mary Cassatt.    
      
   Impressionism   
      
   > 4. From the French for "wild beasts", this group of early 20th    
   > century artists' works emphasized painterly qualities and strong    
   > color rather than the realistic values retained by .    
   > Artists: Henri Matisse, André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck.    
      
   Fauvism   
      
   > 5. A term coined in 1964 to mean a form of abstract art that    
   > uses optical illusions. Artists: Victor Vasarely, Bridget Riley,    
   > Richard Anuszkiewicz.    
      
   Op Art   
      
   > 6. A post-World War II artistic movement characterized by    
   > spontaneous, non-representational compositions that emphasize    
   > the artist's emotions and gestures. Artists: Jackson Pollock,    
   > Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning.    
      
   Abstract Expressionism   
      
   > 8. Noted for "shock tactics", use of throwaway materials, wild    
   > living, and an attitude "both oppositional and entrepreneurial".    
   > Artists: Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Gillian Wearing.    
   > (Give either the name or the 3-letter acronym.)    
      
   Young British Artists   
        
   > * Game 7, Round 3 - History - Year in the Life    
   >    
   > We name a famous person; you give any year in which they were alive.    
   >    
   > 1. Genghis Khan.    
      
   1250   
      
   > 2. Attila the Hun.    
      
   450   
      
   > 3. Jacques Cartier.    
      
   1650   
      
   > 4. James Cook.    
      
   1750   
      
   > 5. Charlemagne.    
      
   800   
      
   > 6. Muhammad (peace be upon him).    
      
   632   
      
   > 7. Alexander the Great.    
      
   350 BCE   
      
   > 8. Julius Caesar.    
      
   44 BCE   
      
   > 9. William the Conqueror.    
      
   1066   
      
   > 10. Marco Polo.    
      
   1270   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
   gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)