Art part 3 Flashcards
What artist named his track Naima after his first wife
John Coletrane
What artist depicted a seated woman wearing a large lavender-colored sash in his portrait Lady Agnew of Lochnaw
John Singer Sargent
What sculpture had a cast created for the Cleveland Museum which was damaged by a bomb
The Thinker
What composer quoted a Bach fugue in his first cello sonata
Brahms
What composer included a timpani roll that opens his folk music influenced A minor piano concerto
Edvard Grieg
What artist created a wire structure of a woman flipping on top of a man titled Two Acrobats as part of a wooden-wire model circus
Alexander Calder
What composer compiled a set of 6 concertos dedicated to Christian Ludwig
JS Bach
What equestrian statue of the Italian mercenary Erasmo da Narni stands in the Piazza del Santo in Padua
Gattamelata
Who created Gattamelata and Penitent Magdalene
Donatello
What artist created the essay collection The New Plastic in Painting and created New York City 1
Piet Mondrian
What artist depicted two rabbits on a hill to the left of women resting on a water filled sarcophagus
Titian
Who wrote the Mephisto Waltzes
Franz Lizst
What nationalist Italian composer instructed orchestras to play a recording of a twittering nightingale in his 1926 tone poem The Pines of Rome
Ottorino Respighi
What composer created a piece that was described by Hans von Bulow as the Old Testament of piano music
JS Bach
What fresco covers the altar wall in the sistine chapel and depicts St Bartholomew’s flayed skin
The Last Judgement
What artist’s Delivery of the Keys remains on the north wall of the Sistine Chapel
Perugino
What artist painted Portrait of Madame X
John Singer Sargent
What instrument did Max Roach play
Drums
What jazz saxophonist is known for St Thomas, which he adapted from a Bahamian folk song his mother sang to him
Sonny Rollins
Who created The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living where a shark is in fermaldahyde
Damien Hirst
In what painting’s central scene does a concert take place on the title vehicle
The Haywain Triptych
Who painted the Haywain Triptych
Aken
What composer created a ballet contains a famous movement in which The Man and Woman Kiss
Darius Milhaud
What aesthetic movement did photographers try to altar photos to create images that could be considered art
Pictorialism
What partially self titled jazz album features the song Fables of Faubus which attacked Arkansas’s governor
Mingus Ah Um
Who created Mood Indigo and Take the A Train
Duke Ellington
What dance used in The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse is the national dance of Uruguay and Argentina
Tango
What pigment is made from cow urine in its namesake country
Indian Yellow
What artistic movement did Magritte depict in his Vache Period
Fauvism
What solo work for piano extensively quotes Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata
Concord Sonata
Who wrote the Conord Sonata
Charles Ives
What jazz pianist replaced Herbie Hancock in Miles Davis’s band and was the pianist on Bitches Brew
Chick Corea
What Masaccio fresco in Santa Maria Novella depicts the title religious figures situated beneath an elaborate barrel vault
The Holy Trinity
What symphony takes its title from a poem by Friedrich Klopstock
Resurrection symphony
Who wrote the Resurrection symphony
Gustav Mahler
What French composer wrote a treatise on harmony and composed pioneering french operas like Hippolyte et Aricie
Jean-Phillipe Rameau
In what sculpture does a god grasp a baby in one arm and what is assumed to be grapes in the other
Hermes and the infant Dionysus
Who sculpted Hermes and the infant Dionysus and Aphrodite of Cnidus
Praxiteles
What artist painted the St Mark series
Tintoretto
What Duke Ellington album was inspired by his world tour and featured tracks Bluebird of Delhi and Isfahan
The Far East Suite
What musical movement was led by Maurice Ravel
Musical Impressionism
What French impressionist composer created Suite Bergamasque and a symphonic composition depicting the sea title La Mer
Claude Debussy
What painting shows middle eastern women being stabbed and is dominated by a huge red-covered bed
Death of Sardanapalus
What man designed the bell tower that sits adjacent to the Duomo in Florence
Giotto
In what English composer’s War Requiem does the traditional text of the Latin mass intersperses with poems by Wilfred Owen
Benjamin Britten
What composer wrote a requiem that is unusually set to the German text of the Lutheran Bible instead of the traditional Latin
Johannes Brahms
Who sculpted Mr Rushmore
Gutzon Borglum
What composer’s Roman Carnival Overture reused material from his opera Benvenuto Cellini
Hector Berlioz
What composer used the ‘queen mab’ scherzo as part of a massive choral symphony based on Romeo and Juliet
Hector Berlioz
What artist depicted the Coronation of the Christian Knight on the central panel of his Modena Triptych
El Greco
What artist painted the Dormition of the Virgin in the 1560s
El greco
What artists late works depicts the castle of San Servando and the Alcantara bridge
El greco
What man’s band The Second Testament created the album E=mc2
Count Basie
What composer wrote an piano suite based on an ETA Hoffman character called Kreisleriana
Robert Schumann
What composer depicted Eusebius and Florestan in his collection Carnaval
Robert Schumann
What composer set music to Heinrich Heine’s poem ‘I stand in Dark Dreams’
Grieg
What composer created incidental music such as ‘ the Abduction of the Bride, and Solveigs song
Grieg
What composer depicted a wild dance at a village inn in the first of his Mephisto Waltzes
Franz Lizst
Who composed Totentanz
Lizst
What artists depiction of Judith and Holofernes showed the general sitting in a cushion and dangling his legs over the base
Donatello
What artists image of Habakukk was given a nickname meaning pumpkin
Donatello
What artist showed a line of blindfolded soldiers in Gassed
John Singer Sargent
What artist painted two guitars on a back wall of a room in El Jaleo
John Singer Sargent
What artists most famous portrait shows the pale wife of Pierre Gautrrau
John Singer Sargent
What composer used an A E F motif in his Double Concerto for violin and cello
Brahms
What composer wrote his Tragic Overture and orchestral dances based on folk melodies
Brahms
What composer created a piece that was nicknamed because he traded it for an English razor
Joseph Haydn
What composer created string quartets that contained variations in the Deutschlandiled
Joseph Haydn
What composers ‘song of the Hindu trader’ was arranged into the hit ‘song of India’
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
What composer created an opera where Mizgir loves a woman who melts
Nikolai Rimsky-korskov
What man wrote the Procession of the Nobles for the collaborative opera Mlada
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsavok
What composer wrote Les Noces or The Wedding
Igor Stravinsky
