Packet 3: Tossup 17

This artist created a calendar depicting Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch for the film Insignificance. In 2013, the inaugural Art+Film Gala honored this artist and Martin Scorsese, who cited a biopic of this artist as an influence on Taxi Driver’s framing. That 1974 meta-biopic of this artist got an X rating for nudity, including a shot in which the camera enters his shower. Teller’s documentary (-5[1])Tim’s Vermeer interviewed (-5[1])this artist (15[1])to discuss the techniques analyzed in his (15[1])book Secret (15[1])Knowledge. (15[2])This artist once placed (15[1])a tomato sandwich (15[1])in the stigmata of a sculpture of Christ while studying at the (*) Royal College of Art, as he recounted in a short film produced by his former classmate Ridley (10[1])Scott. Jack Hazan directed a biopic chronicling this artist’s breakup with his muse Peter Schlesinger. (-5[1])The Alain Delon movie La Piscine (“pee-SEEN”) influenced a 2015 (10[1])Luca Guadagnino (“gwah-don-YEE-no”) film titled (10[1])for a painting (10[1])by this artist. (10[1])For 10 points, what artist is the subject of the biopic A Bigger Splash? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: David Hockney
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2025 Spec Script - Canada2025-06-212100%0%50%158.50
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