Arts and Culture Flashcards
Who wrote The Mikado?
Gilbert and Sullivan
What was Benjamin Britten known for?
He was a music composer
Who wrote The Planets?
Gustav Holst
What was the most famous work of Edward Elgar?
Where was he from?
Pomp and Circumstance
Worcester
What kind of music did Ralph Vaughan Williams do?
What was his biggest influence?
- Choirs and Orchestras
- English folk music
Who wrote Façade?
Sir William Walton
What were two famous works of Sir William Walton?
- Façade
- Belshazzar’s Feast
Which composer wrote marches for both George VI and Queen Elizabeth II?
Sir William Walton
Name two famous works by Benjamin Britten
- Billy Budd
- Peter Grimes
What event was founded by Benjamin Britten?
Where does it take place?
- Aldeburgh Festival
- Suffolk
What is the name of a music arena in Glasgow?
The SEC Centre
What is an annual culture festival in Wales?
National Eisteddfod of Wales
- Who was David Allan?
- Where was he from?
- When was he active?
- What was his most famous work?
- A portrait painter
- Scotland
- 18th century
- The Origin of Painting
- What did Joseph Turner do?
- When did he do it?
- What was a major result in his field?
- A landscape painter
- 18th/19th century
- Raised profile of landscape painting
- What was John Constable famous for?
- Where did he work?
- Landscape painter
- Dedham Vale on Suffolk-Essex border
Who are two British winners of Turner Prize?
- Damian Hirst
- Richard Wright
- What did John Petts do?
- Where was he from?
- Art in stained glass and engravings
- Wales
- What was Lucien Freud famous for?
- Where was he from?
- Painting portraits
- Germany
David Hockney was a famous contributor to _________
The pop art movement
- What did Henry Moore do?
- Where was he from?
- Abstract sculptures in Bronze
- England
What was Sir John Lavery famous for?
Where was he from?
- For being a portrait artist
- N. Ireland
Who were 3 famous Pre-Raphaelite painters?
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Sir John Millais
- Holman Hunt
Whose works was A Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra based on?
Purcell
- Who was a famous 20th century architect AND garden designer?
- Who did they collaborate with?
- what is their most famous piece?
- What was another non-art related thing they are famous for?
- Sir Edwin Lutyens
- Gertrude Jekyll
- The Cenotaph in Whitehall
- Designing New Delhi to be the seat of India
- Who often said a place has “capabilities”?
- What style was the person famous for?
- What period were they active in?
- Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown
- “Natural style” of garden design
- 18th century
- Who was famous for working in the Art Deco style?
- What did they create?
- Clarice Cliff
- Ceramics
When was the Man Booker Prize started?
1968
Which Poet won The Nobel Prize for Literature?
Seamus Heaney
Which novelist won the Nobel Prize for Literature?
- Sir Henry Goulding
Which Playwright won The Nobel Prize in Literature?
Harold Pinter
Name 3 winners of the Man Booker Prize
- Hilary Mantel
- Ian McEwan
- Julian Barnes
- Robert Adam was an 18th ______ from ______.
- He did both _______ and ______
- Architect
- Scotland
- Interiors and Exteriors
- Indigo Jones was famous in what time period?
- What 2 things did he design?
- 17th century
- Queens house in Greenwich and Banqueting House in Whitehall
- What Genre did Evelyn Waugh write?
- What are 3 famous works
- Satirical
- Decline and Fall, Scoop, Brideshead Revisited
- What did Graham Greene’s work centre around?
- What are his famous works?
- His Religious Beliefs
- Brighton Rock, Our Man in Havana, Honorary Consul, The Heart of the Matter
Who wrote “Lucky Jim”?
Sir Kingsley Amis
How many novels did Sir Kingsley Amis write?
More than 20
Who wrote Kidnapped?
Robert Louis Stevenson
Name 3 works by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Kidnapped
- Treasure Island
- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was from ________
Scotland
What is a famous poem from the Middle Ages about a knight in King Arthur’s Court?
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
John Milton was a believer in ________, and wrote _______
- Protestantism
- Paradise Lost
William Wordsworth was a _______ inspired by _______
- Poet
- Nature
Who are two poets who wrote about WWI?
- Wilfred Owen
- Siegfried Sassoon
What did Alfred Lord Tennyson do?
Write poetry
What did Elizabeth Browning do?
She was a poet
What did Robert Browning do?
He was a poet
Who wrote Anthem for Doomed Youth?
What’s is it it about?
What format is it in?
- Wilfred Owen
- Poetry
- WWI
Who wrote “Oh to be in England now that April’s there”?
What’s the title of the overall piece of work?
- Robert Browning
- Home Thoughts from Abroad
Who wrote She walks in beauty?
Lord Byron
Who wrote the following? What was the name of the overall work?
“I wander’d as lonely as a cloud
Who floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd
A host of golden daffodils.”
- William Wordsworth
- The Daffodils
What is Ted Hughes famous for?
Being a modern poet
John Masefield is a ________
Modern poet
Sir Walter de la Mare is known for _______
Being a modern poet
What is Sir John Betjeman known for?
Modern poetry
Name 4 modern poets
- Sir Walter de la Mare
- Sir John Betjamin
- Ted Hughes
- John Masefield
- Who was known for painting portraits of The Royal family?
- Where was he from?
- Sir John Lavery
- Northern Ireland
Who wrote George’s Marvellous Medicine?
Roald Dahl
How many people died in the troubles?
3,000
What caused trouble with the “Balance of Payments”?
What did this result it?
- Instability with the pound vs other currencies
- Imports of goods coming into the UK were valued at more than what others paid for the UK’s exports
In addition to The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling also wrote these two pieces of Literature
- The poem If
- Just So Stories
In what building. Is the Tate Modern?
Bankside Power Station
An important historic country house is _____ Hall in ______
Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire
Name 3 MODERN famous British architects
- Norman Foster
- Zaha Hadid
- Richard Rogers
This famous Victorian designed _____ bridge which spans across _____
- Brunel
- Clifton Suspension Bridge
- Avon Gorge
