Round 1: Tossup 19

A park in this country features a 17-meter-tall Monolith depicting 121 interlocking nude bodies in a column, (-5[1])as well as the absurd bronze sculpture Man Attacked by Babies. (10[1])Two artists from this country competed to decorate a university’s assembly hall in the Aula dispute, which ended with the hall hosting the paintings Alma Mater and The Sun. (-5[2])An artist from this country painted a dark self-portrait in which his face is illuminated by a lit cigarette. An affair with Millie Thaulow led that artist from this country to paint a man in black sulking in the corner as a red-haired woman in a white gown (10[2])kneels and clutches her head. (10[2])That artist of the painting Ashes from (10[1])this country (-5[1])also (10[1])painted women with long, red hair in Love and Pain and The Sick Child. For 10 points, name this home country of the painter of the Frieze of Life, Edvard Munch (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[1])

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