Art stuff Flashcards
Who wrote Major Barbara
George Bernard Shaw
What work is found in the Piazza Navona
Fountain of the four rivers
Who designed the fountain of the four rivers
Bernini
What artist depicted his neighbor sitting nude on a stool
Andrew Wyeth
What ballet contains the Dance of the Knights
Romeo and Juliet
1942 composition inspired by a Henry Wallace speech
Fanfare for the common man
What Copland ballet depicts the title character engaging in a gunfight and escaping from prison?
Billy the Kid
What opera contains a character that sings the aria “this is prophetic”
Nixon in China
What composition from Nixon in China features Mao Zedong and Jiang Ching performing a foxtrot
Chairman Dances
What painting contains black clad man holding the hand of a woman in a green dress
Arnolfini wedding
Who created Las Meninas
Diego Velazquez
Who wrote the four seasons
Vivaldi
What artist depicted his dying sister in The Sick Child
Munch
What artist painted a dying Ophelia and Christ in the house of his Parents
Millais
Who composed the score for the film Shall We Dance
George Gerswhin
What composer used the Arabian Nights as his source material
Rimsky Korsakov
What composer created a Prague and Paris symphony
Mozart
What thinker created the Doctrine of the Mean
Confucius
Who wrote Petrushka
Igor Stravinksy
What ballet features the infernal dance
The Firebird (Stravinsky)
Who created bird in space
Brancussi
Who wrote Gnossiennes which lacks a time signature
Erik Satie
Who wrote Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Who wrote Theory of the Leisure Class
Veblen
What style of architecture used rib vaults and pointed arches
Gothic
What is the southernmost Baltic state
Lithuania
What is the capital of Lithuania
Vilnius
What painting consits of a woman holding a walking stick and resting near an oddly shaped mandolin
The sleeping gypsy
Who created the Sleeping Gypsy
Rousseau
Who created a painting where a woman rummages through a chest
Titian
Who wrote Hungarian Rhapsody
Franz Lizst
What composer created the Rhenish symphony
Robert Schumann
What artist reinterpreted Las Meninas completely in white with a green outline
Picasso
What artist depicted peasants eating dinner
Van Gogh
Who frequently painted fleshy nudes
Paul Rubens
Who created the album Birth of the Cool
Miles Davis
What man painted 5 women with faces inspired by African masks
Picasso
Who depicted George Washington in Parson Weems’ Fable
Grant Wood
Who created Creatures of Prometheus
Beethoven
Who painted The Problem we all live with
Norman Rockwell
Who painted The Cardsharks
Caravaggio
What composers ghost variations was interrupted by a suicide attempt in the Rhine
Robert Schumann
What ballet starred Tamara Karsavina at its premiere
The Firebird
Who composed Metamorphosen
Richard Strauss (need richard)
In what opera does a character sing the aria “In Questa Reggia”
Turandot
Who created Turandot
Puccini
What composer was inspired by Hungarian Dances to create his Slavonic Dances
Dvorak
What artist painted a girl thinking “I don’t care”
Roy Lichtenstien
Who wrote The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann
What composer created an opera where a boy suddenly starts singing malo,malo
Benjamin Britten
What war was briefly halted after the battle of Tewkesbury
War of the Roses
What color did Paul Gaugin use to depict a sickly Jesus on the cross
Yellow (Yellow christ)
What opera has sections called “I Feel the Earth Move” and Mr Bojangles
Einstein on the Beach
Who painted Garden of Earthly Delights
Aken
Who wrote the four seasons of Buenos Aires
Piazolla
Who choreographed the rite of Spring
Najinksi
Who created St Francis in Ecstacy
Bellini
Who made the Leningrad symphony
Shostakovich
What jazz singer was the first singer of “Summertime” in Porgy and Bess
Billie Holliday
Who wrote Adaggio for Strings
Samuel Barber
What material was used to create the Belvedere Torso
Marble
What composer wrote Carnaval and Symphonic Etudes
Robert Schuman
Whose B minor eight symphony was unfinished upon his death
Franz Schubert
Who was the wife of Robert Schuman
Clara
What museum contains I and The Village
Museum of Modern Art
What city’s great gate inspired Pictures at an Exhibition
Kiev
What painter was inspired by Lord Byron to paint The Death of Sardanapulus
Eugene Delacroix
What composer wrote a set of Liebeslieder Waltzes for singers and piano
Johannes Brahms
What concert overture did Brahms write after the University of Breslau awarded him a doctorate
Academic Festival overture
At what meeting did Athanasius win a debate over whether God the father was superior to God the son
Council of Nicea
What four paintings subtitled youth depict a guardian angel watching over the central man who progresses from childhood to old age
Voyage of Life (Cole)
What character tells another to find him at number 15
Figaro (Barber of Seville)
What French composer wrote a piece about his time as a POW
Oliver Messiaen
What term did Louis Sullivan create
Form follows function
What south American river is represented in the fountain of the four rivers
Rio de la Plata
What pope commissioned the Fountain of the four rivers
Innocent the tenth
What composer created the Dumky trio and Slavonic Dances
Antonin Dvorak
What artist was inspired by Titian to create a scene where a black servant holds a bouquet of flowers
Manet
Who painted The Circus and showed a dog sniffing the ground in a large painting
Georges Seurat
What composer depicted Vi’s love for Joe in his opera Blue Monday
George Gershwin
What artist depicted a blue idol in the background of a painting that shows indigenous women
Paul Gaugin
What jazz musician led groups known as his first and second great quintets
Miles Davis
What composer’s final opera was an adaptation of Death in Venice
Benjamin Britten
What work is based off a poem by Stephane Mallarme
Prelude to the afternoon of a faun (Debussy)
Who choreographed many of Debussy’s ballets such as Jeux
Nijinsky
What sculptor claimed to depict Princess Marie Bonaparte in a phallic sculpture called princess X
Brankoosh
Who wrote the opera Otello
Verdi
What opera by Charles Gounod calls for a baritone to play Mercutio
Romeo and Juliet
What instrument did Beethoven use to represent thunder in his pastoral symphony
Timpani
Who is the maid who helps Cio Cio San to prepare for Pinkerton’s return in Madame Butterfly
Suzuki
Who composed the comic opera The Mikado
Arthur Sullivan
What was Mozart’s last symphony called
Jupiter symphony
What instrument did Mozart write a concerto to be performed by Anton Stadler
Clarinet
What Austrian composer did Mozart call papa
Haydn
What character in a Schiller play is forced to perform a dangerous stunt on his son
WIlliam Tell
Who created the Villa Rotonda and wrote the Four Books of Architecture
Palladio
What composer created the Gutenberg contata and the Italian and Scottish symphonies
Felix Mendelssohn
What other Mendelssohn work includes 8 books of solo piano pieces with this title
Lieder ohne Worte
Who painted Christina’s World
Andrew Wyeth
What composer used C-G-C to depict a rising sunrise
Richard Strauss
