Round 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 Tim’s Vermeer interviewed (-5[1])this artist to discuss the techniques analyzed in his book Secret Knowledge. This artist once placed a tomato sandwich 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 Scott. Jack Hazan directed a biopic chronicling this artist’s breakup with his muse Peter Schlesinger. The Alain Delon movie La Piscine (“pee-SEEN”) influenced a 2015 Luca Guadagnino (“gwah-don-YEE-no”) film titled for a painting by this artist. (10[1])For 10 points, what artist is the subject of the biopic A Bigger Splash? ■END■ (10[1])

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