Assorted Flashcards
Eightfold Path
VISALEMC
1) Right View
2) Right Intention
3) Right Speech
4) Right Action
5) Right Livelihood
6) Right Effort
7) Right Mindfulness
8) Right Concentration
Observations about Diving Bell and Butterfly
Character who never knew failure is faced witg it. Despite only blinking, he had more social connections than people who are typical. Reminded me of the Sessions.
What I liked about Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)
People in middle age are either single and wishing for stability, or in a marriage and dying to get out of suburbia.
What was the Algonquin Round Table?
1919-1929 Algonquin Hotel
Formerly the Vicious Circle
NYC writers, critics and actors
Ruth Hale - woman’s rights writer
Robert Benchley- grandpa to Peter
Herman Mankiewicz- author of Citizen Kane
Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Fountainhead
American Gothic
Grant Wood
1930
Art Institute of Chicago
American Revolution
1765-1791
Name of Russian exclave in Baltic
Kaliningrad
Claude Monet
1840-1826
Born in France, worked in France
Notable:
Sunrise
Woman with a Parasol
Water Lilies
Known for water paintings. Also had a unusual marital situation with his mistress and his 1st wife living together in the same house.
Who wrote Midnight’s Children?
Salman Rushdie
Shakespeare
1564-1616
Ayn Rand Early Life
Daughter of successful pharmacist in St Petersburg. Bolsheviks took the business away which she resented.
Existential imperative
Live life authentically Don’t follow someone else’s code
Two aspects of Dickens’ strategy
1) address social ills
2) build empathy for low status characters who suffer the social ills.
Who wrote the Canterbury Tales? When?
Chaucer - 1387-1400
What country remained Christian when the Moors took over Spain?
Portugal
Who designed Apple Park and the London Tower (gherkin)?
Norman Foster
Hallmarks of film noir
Fallen/falling middle class hero
Femme fatale
Has to be a crime
Entrapment
Often Los Angeles
American Dream failed
Nihilistic/ unhappy ending
Mark Twain
1835-1910
Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer
How did Van Gogh die?
Gunshot to stomach. Some argue he was murdered by a local teen. No gun was found.
When were Rembrandt and Vermeer born?
Rembrandt 1606
Vermeer 1632
Basic Roux
1/4 cup butter (or other fat)
1/4 cup flour
Art Nouveau era
1890-1910
Bal du moulin de la Galette
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1876
Musee D’Orsay
Isaac Newton
1643-1727 Mathematician, physicist, England
Key in the enlightenment
Did Dickens spend more effort on defining problems or solutions?
All defining problems/questions, no effort on solutions.
Why did Prussia win the Franco Prussian War?
Mobilization of troops using rail system, better artillery
Capital of Lithuania
Vilnius

Washington Crossing the Delaware
Emanuel Leutze
1851

Frank Ghery
Bilboa
Prague, 1968 -name the characters too
Unbearable Lightness of Being - Tomas, Tereza, Sabina, Franz, Karenin
Rembrandt Van Rijn
1606-1669
Born and worked in the Netherlands
Dutch Golden Age/Baroque
Notable
Night watch
Storm on the sea of Galilee
The Anatomy Lesson
One of the greatest visual painters of all time.
Capital of Belarus
Minsk
Seven Years War
1756-1763
Britain and France but Britain allied with Prussia and France with everyone else
Characters from Sound and Fury
Quentin
Jason
Caddie
Benjy
Dilsey
Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Jacques-Louis David
1801
Near Paris
Common threads between Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness
VERY similar
A) Kurtz and his MO
B) harlequin and Dennis Hopper
Tenebrism Vs Chiaroscuro
Tenebrism is an extreme form of Chiaroscuro. Tends to show starker contrasts, and may include some degree of sadness. All Tenebrism is Chiarascuro, but the opposite is not true.
Amy Adams Movies
Nocturnal Animals
Arrival
American Hustle
Man of Steel
Meeting over dinner, long conversation 1981
My Dinner with Andre
Metaphor in Chinatown
Water and the Truth
Top Architects of all time
Frank Lloyd Wright
Santiago Calatrava
Zaha Hadid
Frank Gehry
Norman Foster
Uncompromising, massive use of concrete
Brutalism
Two Women’s Rights Advocates
Gloria Steinham
Malala Yousafzi
Betty Friedan cofounder NOW
Charles I in Three Positions
Anthony van Dyck
Baroque
1635
Johannes Vermeer
1632-1675
Born and worked in Netherlands
Baroque/Dutch Golden Age
Notable:
Girl with a Pearl Earring
The Astronomer
The Milkmaid
Known for his use of light.
Queen Victoria’s Reign
1837- 1901
Had 9 chuldren, 37 grandchildren
Time of Prosperity and peace
Four noble truths of Buddhism
1) Existence is suffering
2) Craving is the source of all suffering
3) It is better to change what you want, than want what you can’t have
4) The Eightfold Path will help to change what you want.
What was special about “Pet Sounds”? When?
First album for listening as opposed to dancing to. Sophisticated “textures” (cliche) and combinations of classic techniques with rock - a concept album. 1966
David Lean movies
Lawrence of Arabia
Dr Zhivago
Bridge on the river Kwai
Great Expectations
Brief Encounter
Premise of the Canterbury Tales
31 Pilgrims walking from London to Canterbury
Capital of Moldova
Chisinau
Capital of Lebenon
Beirut
Flaming June
Sir Frederic Leighton
1895
Museo de Arte de Ponce (Puerto Rico)
Evidence that Romans came to America
Figurines, amphorae found near Rio. Known that Romans were in Cape Verde, and had large boats. Plus a sword in Oak Island and gold coins in the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

Nighthawks
Edward Hopper
1942
Inception Premise
Christopher Nolan - An agent is able to learn people’s secrets by entering their dreams. Sometimes he brings other agents with him. They can go into a dream within a dream etc. The crux of the movie is him going actually planting an idea (inception) vs learning ideas.
He goes 4 layers deep to do this, but it works. In the end we think he gets out but he stays in a dream with his wife. Fourth layer is Limbo. If you include reality there are five levels
A Bar at the Folies-Bergere
Edoauard Manet
1882
Impressionism
Enemy (film) Premise
Denis Villeneuve - set in Toronto. Mulholland Drive meets Fight Club. One actor -semi successful, fantasizes about being a university professor. Not a great movie, but interesting.
What philosopher is Fight Club built upon?
Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra Dangers of Nihilism Loss of masculinity
The Grand Canal Venice Painting
JMW Turner
1835
Woody Allen
1935
Tons of movies both as actor and director
Hannah and her sisters
Manhattan
Annie Hall
Directing
Blue Jasmine
Midnight in Paris
Why is Dennis Wilson controversial?
He hung out with Charles Manson for several months
He married Mike Love’s daughter. Yikes.
First of the three Wilsons to die at 39. Drowned drunk.
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Premise
Jim Carrey’s character has the option of wiping out the memory of a relationship that ended and caused him pain, but decides not to. The point is that despite, or perhaps because of imperfections in relationships, we need to hold onto them.
Salvador Dali film- short, gross
Un Chien Andalou
1928
“Handmade” Low Budget
Was never intended to make sense
Was meant to shock the audience
Dante’s inferno
Poem written by Italian Poet “Divine Comedy” written 1320
Main Characters from Moby Dick
Ishmael - Author
Captain Ahab
Queequeg
Starbuck
Stubb
Ship - Pequod
Banana Massacre
47-2000 fruit workers killed
Santa Marta
1928
The Scream
Edvard Munsch
Expressionism
1893
Oslo Norway
Fincher vs Christopher Nolan
Fincher - low key lighting, heavy shadows - FIght Club, Seven, Gone Girl, Mank, Benjamin Button
Christopher Nolan - Unconventional structures - weird plotlines, (Tenet, Inception, Memento, Dark Knight)
Who wrote “Remains of the Day”?
Kazuo Ishiguro
Last Supper
Leonardo da Vinci
1495
Santa Maria Delle Grazie, Milan
Who was Pliny the Elder and when did he live?
23AD-79AD, military leader and wrote the first encyclopedia. Died in Vesuvius
When was Buddha alive?
Not clear. 4th - 5th century BC
Jane Austen - books
Mansfield Park
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Couples should improve/ educate each other
What was the book about the black guy in LA who ran a farm in his house?
The Sellout - Paul Beatty
Modern black author, teacher
James Baldwin
Go tell it on the mountain
Notes of a native son
American author, living in Paris from 1903-1946. Lesbian.
Gertrude Stein
Capital of Switzerland
Bern
Who directed Diving bell and the butterfly?
Julian Schnabel

Zaha Hadid
Azerbaijan
Martini/
Dirty Martini
6 parts Vodka / gin
1 part vermouth
Dirty= olive juice or brine
Annunciation
Leonardo da Vinci
1472
Luncheon of the Boating Party
Pierre August Renois
1880
Washington, DC
Schubert vs Beethoven
Schubert…. Died younger More focused on small spaces vs big theatres 1500 songs vs 240 Shorter (5’1”)
The Two Fridas
Frida Kahlo
1939
Naive Art
Painted shortly before her divorce from Diego Rivera

Goya
Saturn devouring his son
1823
Basic pasta
2 cups flour
3 eggs
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp olive oil
What to say when asked for a password
Fidelio
The Gross Clinic
Thomas Eakins
1875
Philadelphia Museum of Art
What are the modern sailing books and who wrote them?
Sailing a serious ocean
Sailing to the edge of time
John Kretschmer
Persistance of Memory
Salvador Dali
1931
Surrealism
MOMA

Zaha Hadid
Wolfsburg Germany
Leonardo da Vinci
1452-1519
Born near Florence, Died in Italy as well
Worked in Italy / France after it took over Milan
Notable Works
Last Supper
Mona Lisa
Lady with Ermine
He was called a “Polymath” and was left handed
Pessimism vs Nihilism
Pessimism is a gateway to nihilism A forerunner.
Watson and the Shark
John Singleton Copley
1778
National Gallery of Art, DC
American Painter. Based on a shark attack in Cuba.
Who was the first international expansionist president of the USA?
McKinley.
What is a mimento mori?
A reminder that obe day you will die.
Pablo Picasso
1881-1973
Born in Spain, worked in France most of his life
Cubist, Surrealist
Notable works
Guernica
Don Quixote
Three Musicians
He was inspired by Matisse
Original founder of ISIS
Zarqawi
Who lead Czechoslovakia during the Prague Spring?
Alexander Dubcek
Crepes
1 3/4 cups flour
4 eggs
1 cup milk
1 cup water
2 tbsp butter
Jane Austen inspiration
She almost inherited Stoneleigh Abbey from a relation who had no spouse and children
She oscillated between wealth and poverty.
Grew up with status but not wealth
Pilgrimage to Cythera
Jean-Antoine Watteau
1717
Rococo
Louvre
(also called the Embarkation for Cythera)

Frank Ghery
Germany
Jacob’s Ladder Premise
Jacob believes himself to be a successful military surgeon post Gulf war, where he fought and originally thought he lost his brother. Although we’re led to believe that his brother is a burnt out vet, we learn at the end that he’s the burnt out vet and he’s living his brother’s life.
When did Ghengis Khan invade Europe?
1237
The Flower Carrier
Diego Riviera
1935
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Kiss
Gustav Klimt
1907
Symbolism
Austria
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott, 1868
What did Lenin promise the peasants before the revolution?
Peace
Bread
Land
What was the name of the German design school between WWI and WWII?
Bauhaus
Christina’s World
Andrew Wyeth
1948
MOMA
Who wrote Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?
Douglas Adams

Olympia
1863
Edouard Manet
Nihilism
Belief that there is no religion, no higher calling etc.

Santiago Calatrava
Valencia, Spain

The Blue Boy
Thomas Gainsborough
1770
Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
Casper Friederich
1818
Romanticism
When was the Prague Spring
January to August 1968
Who wrote Don Quixote?
Miguel de Cervantes
What is the correct name for the Marilyn Monroe buildings?
Absolute World
Right Action Elements
1) Not killing
2) Not stealing
3) Not misusing sex
4) Not lying
5) Not abusing intoxicants
British Architect from 17th Century
Christopher Wren
Most of the Churches in London
What was Bretton Woods?
1944 meeting that launched World Bank and IMF
Vincent Van Gogh
1853-1890
Born in Netherlands, died in France
Worked in France
Notable:
Starry Night
Cafe Terrace at Night
The Potato Eaters
Notable that he did over 2100 works
How wide is Gibraltar?
8 miles
What evidence is there that people crossed the Pacific in boats, separate from the land bridge
DNA common to Australia PNG, found in native Americans, but not in the North, suggesting that they came straight across, 10K years ago…
Fauvism
Wild beasts Simpler than impressionism Unnatural use of colour Matisse and Derain
David Lynch
1946-
Known for surreal - how you feel when your life goes &^%$
Blue Velvet
Twin Peaks
Mulholland Drive
Dune (1982)
No. 5
Jackson Pollock
1948
Abstract Expressionism
Private Collection, NYC
The Gleaners
Jean Francois Milett
1857
Musee D’Orsay
Peasant women picking up the remains of the havest. Symbolizes backbreaking work and plight of the lower class.
Cynics vs nihilist
Cynic = people are bad Nihilist = people are neither good nor bad.
Who wrote “The Color Purple”
Alice Walker, 1944-
How many Guggenheim museums are there? Where?
Five New York Bilboa Venice Abu Dhabi Berlín
What to say when something is ridden with debauchery and hedonism
It’s a bit too Hieronymous Bosch for me…
Pollice Verso
Jean-Leon Gerome
1672
Phoenix Arizon
Pollice Verso means “With a turned thumb”

John Constable
Flatford Mill
1816
Who wrote the Goldfinch?
Donna Tartt
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë 1847
Written as Currer Bell
Gender and Class

Calatrva Dubai

Frank Ghery
Prague
Epistemology
The study of knowledge. Distinguishing fact from opinion. Validation.
Theme of Moby DIck
Man cannot completely conquer nature
Revenge can consume you
Limits of knowledge-Melville knows lots, but the whale still wins
Rape of Nanjing/Nanjing
1937 - Japanese massacred 150,000 Chinese soldiers + 50,000 Civilians
Apology in 2013 from Japanese PM
When did Spanish colonize Phillipines?
1565
Basic Bread
4-5 cups flour
2 cups warm water
1 tbsp yeast
2 tsp salt
1/4 cup sugar or honey
375/30
Garden of Earthly Delights
Year and Artist…
1503
Hieronymous Bosch
When was the French Revolution?
1789-1799
Who was part of Gertrude Stein’s Salon in Paris?
Hemmingway
Picasso
Henri Matisse
F Scott Fitzgerald
Strategic choke point in Baltics Divides Lithuania and Poland
Sawalki Gap

Tahitian Woman with a Flower
1891
Paul Gauguin
Paris Commune
1871
French workers taking control after French army got trounced by the Prussians
Run by Communards
Who was Dido?
First Queen of Carthage
What are the layers of the atmosphere?
Troposphere (7-15 km)
Stratosphere (up to 50km)
Mesosphere (85km)
Thermosphere (600 km)
Exosphere (essentially outer space)
Joy of Life Henri Matisse 1906
Who wrote “Unbearable lightness of being”?
Mila Kundera (1929- )
The Card Players
Paul Cezanne
1894
Musee D’Orsay
Analyze Mulholland Drive
2/3 of movie is Diane’s dream
She dreams of innocence/ renewal
She actually hates Camilla
What was Buddha’s name?
Siddhartha Gautama
Happy Accident of the Swing
Jean-Honore Fragonard
1767
Rococo
London
Hallmarks of Art Nouveau
- Flowing curved lines
- Intricate
- Floral patterns
- Muted colours
- Stained glass
Martin Scorsese - style and films
Born 1942-
Meticulous plots, realism
No good or bad characters - all are in the middle
Key Movies
Wolf of Wall Street
Goodfellas
Raging Bull
Departed
Taxi Driver
Gangs of New York
New York Stories
Morning in a Pine Forest
Ivan Shishkin/Konstantin Savitsky
1889
Moscow
When was the Russo-Japanese War
1904-1905
Five French Mother sauces
Bechamel
Veloute
Espagnol
Hollandaise
Tomato
Evidence of Irish visiting the new world early
St Brendan of Ireland may have come in 6th century. Some petroglyphs in West Virginia.
Name four pilgrims
Summoner, The cook, the Miller, The Knight, the Monk

Frank Ghery
Barcelona
The Bath Mary Cassatt 1893
The Ambassadors
Hans Holbein the Younger
1533
National Gallery, London
Meant to celebrate the two men but also remind viewers of the mortality and imporance of religion (Cross and Skull)
Capital of Austria
Vienna
The Ninth Wave
Ivan Aivazovsky
1850
St Petersburg, Russia
Name of the treaty dividing up South America
Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
Pride and Prejudice vs
Jane Eyre
Approach / Characters
PP-funny, intelligent, beautiful characters, romcom archetype
JE- dramatic, plain characters,
Who was the first leader of the free Czechoslovakia?
Vaclav Havel
Et in Arcadia Ego
Nicolas Poissin
1639
Baroque
Louvre
Significance of the title “To Kill a Mockingbird”
End of innocence- Scout, Boo Radley, Tom Robinson
Paris Street; Rainy Day
Gustave Caillebotte
1877
Impressionist/Modern
Chicago
Core of existentialism
Existence precedes essence
Capital of Morocco
Rabat
Akira Kurosawa
1910-1999
Seven Samurai
Rashomon
Who were the main characters of Don Quixote?
Don Quixote
Sancho Panza
Rocinante
Dapple
Dulcinea del Toboso
Who directed Chinatown?
Román Polanski
Hallmarks of film noir
Fallen/falling middle class hero
Femme fatale
Has to be a crime
Entrapment
Often Los Angeles
American Dream failed
Nihilistic/ unhappy ending
Invasion of Poland
September, 1939
When was the Franco Prussian war?
1870-1871
Slang term for ending something
86’ed
Main characters from To Kill a Mockingbird
Scout, Jem, Atticus Finch
Boo Radley, Tom Robinson
Three Woody Allen Films I’ve seen
Manhattan
Annie Hall
Husbands and Wives
How old are the archaeological ruins in Pennsylvania?
16,000-19,000 years
Paycho therapist wo held Brian Wilson hostage
Eugene Landy - 1975 and then again in the 80’s
Founder of Europe
King Charlemagne
7??-814
Who wrote “new kid in town”?
JD Souther
When did Joan of Arc live?
1412-1431 (19 years)
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
Thomas Gainsborough
1750
National Gallery in London
British, not American
Main characters from Sense and Sensibility
Elinor Dashwood
Marianne Dashwood
Edward Ferrars
John Willoughby
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Hokusai
1831
View of Mount Fuji in the background. Woodblock.
Arrival Explained
Everything’s circular- time, language, the plot, Louise’s daughter’s name Hannah.
Manhattan
2 Oz rye
3/4 Oz vermouth
Dash of bitters
Bechamel Sauce
Roux
2 cups milk
Nutmeg
The Foxes
Franz Marc
1913
Expressionism, Cubism
Dusseldorf
Marx
1818-1883
One hundred years of solitude - author, year
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1967
When did Henry the 8th live?
1491-1547
Count of Monte Cristo author
Alexandre Dumas
1844
Current theory on when people crossed the land bridge in the Bering Straight
13,500 years ago
Kathryn Bigelow films
1951-
Hurt Locker
Detroit
Zero Dark Thirty
Point Break
Sense and Sensibility
Head and heart
Neither on its own is perfect
Balance is the key
When did slavery take place in the USA?
1619 - 1863
Tower of Babel
Peter Bruegel the Elder
1563
Two versions - the (Great) Tower of Babel and the (Little) Tower of Babel
Lady with an Ermin
Leonardo da Vinci
1489
Krakow, Poland
Hollandaise Sauce
4 egg yolks
1 tbsp lemon juice
1/2 cup butter
Cayenne
Fall of Constantinople
1453
Ottoman’s overtook the Byzantines
Sultan Mehmet II
Japan, black and white 1950 - theme of human witness is unreliable
Rashomon
Predestination Movie Premise
Ethan Hawke’s character is a time travelling agent much like Timecop. He actually turns out to be all the main characters in the movie since he was originally a baby who grew into a woman who conceives a baby with herself, she becomes an agent herself, gets disfigured to the point that she has reconstructive surgery and turns into Ethan Hawke.
Characters from Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Bennet
Jane Bennet
Mr Darcy
Mr Wickham
Ayn Rand - philosphy
Objectivism
Creation of Adam
Michelangelo
1512
Sistine Chapel
Las Damas Romanas
Juan Luna
1882
Important work form a Filipino Painter
Black strert artist, NYC
Jean Michel Basquiat 1960-1988
What was the turning point in William Faulkner’s career?
Rejection from his editor Horace Liveright, who said “tell a story and tell it well”
Faulkner’s writing changed 180 degrees after this- all his books were brilliant.

Age of Innocence
Joshua Reynolds
1785
The Son of Man
Rene Magritte
1964
Surrealism
Private Collection
Self Portrait.
Which Warsaw Pact countries did NOt invade Czechoslovakia in 68?
Romania
Albania
Metrópolis Year and director
1927 Fritz Lang
Spanish Dictator / Reign
Francisco Franco
1939-1975
What is the new high rise in downtown TO?
Frank Gehry
Mirvish + Gehry
Main character from HG2G?
Arthur Dent
When did Phoenicia in the Levant fall?
572 BC the Assyrians took over.
Last two city states fell in 300BCE,
Carthage fell in 146BCE
Sunday Afternoon on the island of Grand Jatte
Georges Seurat
1886
Art Institute of Chicago
Neo Impressionist
On the Seine, at the edge of Paris
The Avenue in the Rain
Childe Hassam
1917
American Impressionism
White House - painted just prior to USA joining WWI
Girls from Little Women
Jo March
Beth March
Meg March
Amy March
Marmee

Santiago Calatrava
NYC
Stanley Kubrick
1928-1999
The Shining
Clockwork Orange
2001
Full Metal Jacket
Dr. Strangelove
Eyes Wide Shut
What is special about Nocturnal Animals?
3 storylines
Metaphor is revenge
Amy Adams
View of Toledo
El Greco
1596
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Nightwatch
Rembrandt Van Rijn
1642
Rijksmuseum - Amsterdam
Three Art Nouveau Artists
Mucha
Klimt
Toulouse Lautrec
In the Franco Prussian war, where did the Prussians get inspiration from?
American Civil War
Impression, Sunrise
Claude Monet
1872
Paris
The Treachery of Images
Rene Magritte
1929
LA Museum of Art
Surf spot in Portugal
Nazare
A question
Eine Frage
Christopher Nolan
The Prestige
Memento
Tenet
Inception
Interstellar
Dunkirk
The Dark Knight Rises
Following
Red pill / blue pill
Red is learning new unsettling truth Blue = contented ignorance
Atheism vs Agnosticism
Atheists say i know there’s no god Agnostics say i can’t prove whetheror not there’s a god. I don’t know.
Kuleshov Effect
The meaning of image A is determined by its juxtaposition to image B, C, or D.
Name of the doctor who looked after Van Gogh. Alao subject of one painting.
Dr. Gachet
Peacable Kingdom
Edward Hicks
1834
Location: Various - 62 versions
The Arnolfini Portrait
Jan van Eyck
1434
Early Renaissance
Starry Night
Vincent Van Gogh
1889
MOMA
Painting from the asylum in Saint Remy de Provence
Olmstead
Architect

Liberty Leading the People
Eugene Delacroix
1830
July Revolution of 1830 - NOT the French Revolution

Calatrava
Rio
La Belle Epoque
Paris 1870-1914 Prosperity, creativity
Franco Prussian War >>> World War I
When was Tsar Nicholas assassinated?
1918
The Night Cafe
Vincent Van Gogh
1888
Yale University Art Gallery
What made Henry the 8th famous?
Wanted his marriage to Catherine of Aragon annulled but the pope denied him. So he split the Church of England off from Roman Catholocism.
Shutter Island Explained
Scorsese - DiCaprio- Guy who believes he’s a US Marshall investigating a disappearance in a criminally insane island penitentiary, finds out that he’s a delusional convict himself
Modern film noir movies
Blade Runner
Mimento
Taxi Driver
Gone girl
Carles I in Three Positions
Anthony Van Dyck
Baroque
1635
When did the Inca Empire start?
1438
The Sleeping Gypsy
Henri Rousseau
1897
MOMA
Example of Naive Art - seems almost childish
Rousseau never travelled out of France, but depicted scenese in exotic locales.
Received very little recognition during his life for his work- it came after.
Theme of Sound and Fury
Time is circular - like Arrival
Some characters hate time
Dilsey and Benjy are free of it
Dilsey is spiritual
Benjy doesn’t understand time.
What else did Mila Kundera write?
Book of laughter and forgetting
End of WW2
September 1945
What town in the South of France did Van Gogh move to in February 1888?
Arles
What was the primary philosophy of Bauhaus design?
Functional and aesthetic
Taj Mahal completed
1653
Moon Premise
Sam is a lone worker on a lunar mining station. He realizes that he’s been lied to by his employer, as he’s being replaced periodically by clones and time on earth has moved on 15 years.
Pride and Prejudice vs Jane Eyre themes
PP- status / wealth
JE- status / wealth AND gender/feminism
Bacchus and Ariadne
Titian
1520
Renaissance
National Gallery, London
What was East Prussia?
Part of Germany (east of Poland) that remained German until Treaty of Versaille when it became part of Russia. and Lithuania
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
1813
Compare Little Women to Pride and Prejudice
Both have strong protagonists
P&P is more about women not being bound by class
Little Women is about women not being bound by gender roles
A Cotton Office in New Orleans
Edgar Degas
1873
Impressionism
Pau, France
What ended in France as a result of the Franco Prussian war?
Imperial Rule (ie Napoleon III)
Appreciation of imperfection
Wabi sabi
What inspired psychedelic artwork of the 60’s?
Art Nouveau
Moby Dick - author and year published
Herman Melville
1851
Albert Camus - most famous book
The Stranger
Jane Austen - life
1787-1817
Star of 12 Angry Men
Henry Fonda
What’s interesting about Bunker Hill?
One of the first battles of the revolutionary war. Lost by Americans but inspired the to win the greater war.
Nihilism
“Nothing” Nothing to believe in No good no bad No heaven no hell
May 3, 1808
Francisco Goya
1814
Prado, Madrid
Commemorates Spanish resistance to Napoleon’s occupation of Spain
When was the Berlin wall up?
1961-1989
Blond from Mulholland Drive
Naomi Watts
What region of Spain is Bilboa in?
Basque
Composition VIII
Wassily Kandinsky
1923
Abstract
Guggenheim, NYC
How old are the sunken ancient ruins off of Sweden?
9,000-11,000 years old
The Laughing Cavalier
Frans Hals
1624
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age
London
Which Sense and Sensibility character do you identify with?
Edward Ferrars- soft spoken, conversation > money
Movie about Van Gogh, actor and director
At Eyernity’s Gate
Willem Dafoe
Julian Schnabel
The School of Athens
Raphael
1509
Vatican
Clear indication of a key theme of the renaissance - throw back to ancient Athens
How are Sound and the Fury AND Rashomon comparable?
Both have different narrators giving their depiction of the truth.
The Ladies Waldegrave
Joshua Reynolds
1780
Rococo
Scotland

Zahar Hadid
Glasgow
Haiku Structure
three lines
Syllables = 575
What was the dust bowl?
1935-1938
Kansas, Arkansas, Co, Tx, NM

Nude Descending A Staircase
Marcel Duchamp
1912
Cubism
Artisan Bread
3 1/4 cups flour
2 tsp yeast
1 1/2 cup warm water
2 tsp coarse salt
475 for 20-25min
Las Meninas
Diego Velazquez
1656
Baroque
Prado, Madrid
Five types of brain waves, starting from lowest
Delta (Sleep)
Theta (Subconscious) - imaginative, meditating
Alpha (imagination, creative, higher quality thoughts, fewer)
Beta (reactionary, quick thinking, more frequent, lower quality thoughts)
High Level Beta (agitated, not learning, not trusting, disconnected from reality)
Gamma - Actively processing information
Amistad
Early Martin Scorsese Film, about vigilantism
“Taxi Driver”
Set the tone for the gritty movies that Scorsese would produce for the rest of his life
Robert De Niro
Jodie Foster
Russian Revolution
1917-1923
Star of To Kill A Mockingbird
Gregory Peck

Birth of Venus
Sandro Boticelli
1480
Book about modern layers of society, jealosy
Caste, Isabel Wilkerson
Factors leading to Russian Revolution (3)
1) Defeat from Japan
2) Weak leadership
3) Industrial revolution
4) Economic pressure - finances dumped on the people

Garden of Earthly Delights
Hieronymous Bosch
1503
Classic Ingmar Bergman Black and White, 1947
Seventh Seal- Antonius Block, and Squire Jons
Thus spake Zarathustra elements
Nihilism is turning men into The Last Man- safety, comfort, decadence Ubermensch is not afraid to die or turn away from safety, comfort
Saint George and the Dragon
Paulo Uccello
1470
National Gallery in London
One of the most famous fables of the medieval time.
Most current theory on who came across Bering Straight first…
People came down the Pacific Coast 14-19K years ago, before the land bridge people
What does it mean to say that someone is a Jason Compson?
Lying, manipulative, greedy, racist - the worst of human nature.
Where does the title for Sense amd Sensibility come from?
Sense = Elinor - good sense, practical Sensibility = Marianne (more passionate, optimistic
Film effect of changing the meaning of image A by placing it next to B, C, or D.
Kuleshov Effect.
What group of people first established Carthage and when?
Phoenecians 814BC
What is the bar in Canterbury Tales?
Tabard Inn
Boulevard Monmarte on a Winter Morning
Camille Pissarro
1897
Who directed Lawrence of Arabia?
David Lean
Ruler of Russia before revolution
Tsar Nicholas II
Breezing Up
Winslow Homer
1837
National Gallery of Art, Washington
American Realism
William Faulkner
1897-1962
The Sound and the Fury
Five major rivers of Europe
Danube (Germany - Black Sea)
Rheine (Switzerland - Netherlands)
Elbe (Czech - Germany - Hamburg)
Volga (St Petersburg to Caspian)
Loir (All in France)
Why is Roman Polanski controversial?
Wife (Sharon Tate) murdered by Manson followers
Accused of having sex with a 13 year old at Jack Nicholson’s house
Francis Ford Coppola
1939-
Godfather
Apocalypse Now
Lost in Translation
American Graffiti
Portrait of Madame Matisse 1905 Henri Matisse
David Fincher
Born 1962, NYC
Known for dark themes, camera angle during action
Key Movies
Fight Club
Mank
Gone Girl
Zodiac
Seven
Social Network
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Who was Van Gogh’s controversial friend and why?
Paul Gauguin. Lived with him in Arles-speculation thar they had an affair. Some argue that Gaugin cut off Van Gogh’s ear as Gaugin was also into fencing.
Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941
Mank
David Fincher
About the guy who wrote Citizen Kane
Cafe Terrace at Night
Vincent Van Gogh
1888
Kroller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Whistler’s Mother
James Abbott McNeil Whisler
1871
Realism
Museum D’Orsay
First American painting purchased outside the USA.
Girl with a pearl earring
Johannes Vermeer
1665
The Haag, Netherlands
Dutch Golden Age

Calatrava
Sweden
What was the turning point in William Faulkner’s writing?
Rejection from his editor Horace Liveright, who said “tell a story and tell it well”
Faulkner’s writing changed 180 degrees after this- all his books were brilliant.
William Wallace
Name and timing
Braveheart
1270-1305
What font showdown got the Bauhaus in trouble with the Nazis?
Sans Serif vs Fraktur.
Guernica
Pablo Picasso
1937
Cubism, Surrealism
Madrid
When where the wars between Rome and Carthage and what where they called?
Punic Wars
Mid 3rd century BC
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K Le Guin
1969
Enlightenment
Started with Newton
1715
Mostly philosophers who said you can question monarchies, religion, etc
Starting logic vs god.
Interest in math
Voltaire
When was the Berlin Airlift?
1948
Storm on the Sea of Galilee
Rembrandt
1633
Dutch Golden Age
Was in Boston…
Primavera
Sandro Botticelli
1477
Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Symobolizes Springtime. SB Also did “Birth of Venus”
Led reign of terror in French Revolution
Maximilian Robespierre
Execution of louis 16 started reign of terror
Departure
Abfahrt
Difference between Scotch and Irish whiskies
Scotch use malted barley, Irish use unmalted barley.
When was Don Quixote written?
1605-1615
How are nihilism and technology related?
Increase in technology=decreased mystecism = decreaesed “Meaning” = increased nihilism
JFK assassination
November 22, 1963
Dealey Plaza Dallas
The Astronomer
Johannes Vermeer
1668
Louvre
Dutch Golden Age
Which war saw Hannibal crossing the alps with elephants?
Second Punic War
Who was king before the French Revolution?
Louis the 16th
Feminist themes in The Bell Jar
Ok for men to womanize Women should be chaste
Bell Jar author and year
Sylvia Plath 1963
Novel by Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar
Shakespeare’s wife
Anne Hathaway
Brazilian film about Rio’s ghetto
City of God
3 notable things about City of God Incl worst gangster and narrator
SO many people getting shot with revolvers L’il Ze worst gangster Story narrated by Rocket
How many people die in City of God
58
NZ Prime minister
Jacinda Ardern
Two Americans that explored the west and years
Lewis and Clark 1804-1806
Two Americans that explored the west and years
Lewis and Clark 1804-1806