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George Luks, a Common card
George Benjamin Luks was an American artist, identified with the aggressively realistic Ashcan School of American painting.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 63
- Power
- 129
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 9,800
Power 129 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
George Luks quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the George Luks card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
His best-known ______ reflect the life of the poor and hard-pressed on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Answer
paintings. His best-known paintings reflect the life of the poor and hard-pressed on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. From the George Luks article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Brent East. Brent East 72 · Petit Biscuit 69 · George Luks 66 · Gustave Le Gray 63 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- After travelling and studying in Europe, Luks worked as a newspaper illustrator and cartoonist in Philadelphia, where he became part of a close-knit group, led by Robert Henri, that set out to defy the genteel values imposed by the influential National Academy of Design.
- His best-known paintings reflect the life of the poor and hard-pressed on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The George Luks article was read about 9,800 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 63: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get George Luks
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- CladoceraCommon · Nature · ATK 64 DEF 65
- Jacob WallenbergCommon · Society · ATK 66 DEF 63
- Joseph GlascoCommon · History · ATK 68 DEF 61
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, George Luks (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Gertrude Käsebier, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
