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Art and culture Flashcards

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The Proms

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Eight week summer season of orchestral classical music
Royal Albert Hall
Organsised by BBC in 1927

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Henry Purcell

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1659-1695
Organist at Westminster Abbey
Influenced British composers

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George Frederick Handel

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1685-1759
German origin composer but became British
Water Music for King George I
Music for the Royal Fireworks for King George II
Messiah - Oratorio, sung usually at Easter time

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Gustav Holst

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1874-1934
The Planets
Jupiter
I vow to thee my country

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Sir Edward Elgar

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1857-1934
Born in Worcester
Pomp and Circumference Marches
March No1
Usually played the Last Night of the Proms in Royal Albert Hall
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Ralph Vaughan Williams

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1872-1958
Wrote music for orchestras and choir
Strongly influenced by English Folk music

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Sir William Walton

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1902-1983
Wrote the marches for the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II
Facade - Ballet
Belshazzar’s Feast - Choir

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Benjamin Britten

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1913-1976
Peter Grimes 
Billy Budd
A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Founded Aldeburgh festival in Suffolk
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Festival in the UK

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Glastonbury
Isle of Wight
Creamfields
National Eisteddfod in Wales - Welsh festival, Welsh poems
Edinburgh Festival Fringe - comedy performance

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Mercury Prize

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September

Best album from UK and Ireland

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Famous theatre play

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The Mousetrap by Dame Agatha Christie
HMS Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado - written by Gilbert and Sullivan
Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice - Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats and The Phantom of the Opera

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Laurence Olivier Award

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Best director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Sir Laurence Olivier was famous for his roles in Shakespeare plays

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Famous Painter in the 16-17th C

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Hans Holbein

Sir Anthony Van Dyck

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Turner Prize

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establish in 1984
Named after Joseph Turner
Shortlisted - four works and shown in Tate Modern
Previous winners include Damien Hirst and Richard Wright

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Thomas Gainsborough

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1727-1788
Portrait painter
Painted people in country or garden scenery

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David Allan

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1744-1796
Scottish painter
The Origin of Painting

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Joseph Turner

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1775-1851

Influential landscape painter

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John Constable

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1776-1837
Landscape painter
Dedham Vale on the Suffolk-Essex

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The Pre-Raphaelites

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group of artists in the second half of the 19th century

Included Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Sir John Millais

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Sir John Lavery

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1856-1941
Northern Irish portrait painter
Painted Royal Family

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Henry Moore

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1898-1986
English Scultor
Large bronze abstract sculture

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John Petts

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1914-1991
Welsh artist
Engravings and Stained glass

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Lucian Freud

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1922-2011
German born British artist
Portraits

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David Hockney

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1937-

Pop Art in the 60s

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Inigo Jones
Took inspiration from Classical architecture to design Queen's House at Greenwich and the Banqueting House in Whitehall
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Sir Christopher Wren
St Paul's Cathedral | British version of the Ornate Style
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Robert Adam
Scottish Architect | designed inside decoration of Dumfries
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Sir Edwin Lutyens
Designed New Delhi to be the seat of government in India | Cenotaph - War memorial
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Modern Architects
Sir Norman Foster Lord Richard Rogers Dame Zaha Hadid
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Man Booker Prize
Best fiction novel from Commonwealth, ireland and Zimbabwe | Past winners include - Ian McEwan, Hilary Mantel and Julian Barnes
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Jane Austen
1775-1817 Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility
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Charles Dickens
``` 1812-1870 Oliver Twist Great Expectations Scrooge - mean person Mr Micawber - always hopeful ```
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Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1894 Treasure Island Kidnapped Jekyll and Mr Hydea
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Thomas Hardy
1840-1928 Far from the Madding Crowd Jude the Obscure
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1859-1930 Scottish doctor Sherlock Holmes
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Evelyn Waugh
1903-1966 Decline and Fall Scoop Brideshead Revisited
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Sir Kingsley Amis
1922-1995 | Lucky Jim
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Graham Greene
1904-1991 The Heart of the Matter Brighton Rock Our Man in Havana
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Nobel Prize winner literature
Sir William Golding Seamus Heaney Harold Pinter
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Famous Poem
Beowolf - Anglo-Saxon poem Canterbury Tales - by Chaucer Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Paradice Lost - John Milton
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Sonnet
Poem that needs to be 14 lines long
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Other Famous Poet
``` William Wordsworth Sir Walter Scott - Scottish poet William Blake John Keats Lord Byron Percy Shelley Alfred Lord Tennyson Robert and Elizabeth Browning Wilfred Owen Siegfried Sassoon Sir Walter de la Mare John Masefield Sir John Batjeman Ted Hughes ```
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National flowers
England - Rose Scotland - Thistle Wales - Daffodil NI - Shamrock
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Famous gardens
England - Kew Gardens, Sissinghurst and Hidcote Scotland - Crathes Castle, Inveraray Castle Wales - Bodnant NI - Mount Stewart
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Allotment
When people rent additional land to grow vegetables and fruits
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Famous British Film
The 39 Steps - Alfred Hitchcock, 1935 Brief Encounter - David Lean, 1945 The Third Man - Carol Reed, 1949 The Belles of St Trinian's - Frank Launder, 1954 Lawrence of Arabia - David Lean 1962 Women in Love - Ken Russell, 1969 Don't Look Now - Nicolas Roeg, 1973 Chariots of Fire - Hugh Hudson, 1981 The Killing Field - Roland Joffe, 1984 Four Weddings and a Funeral - Mike Newell, 1994 Touching the Void - Kevin MacDonald, 2003
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Satirical magazines
Punch | Private Eye
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National parks in the UK
15 national parks
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The Eden Project
Cornwall | Giant greenhouse with plants from all over the world
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Giant Causeway
North East coast of NI | Land formation of columns from volcanic lava

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