Culture Flashcards
cendrawasih is a Balinese dance that depicts mating rituals of what?
where is cendrawasih bay
bird of paradise = buring cendrawasih in Indonesian and as manuk dewata (“the bird of the gods”) in Balinese.
The cendrawasih dance is often performed outside of Indonesia when promoting Indonesian culture,
papua island
- which is the largest buddhist temple in the world
surrounded by mountains, including twin volcanoes Mount Merbabu (left) and Merapi
Borobudur -srivijiya -9th century.
angkor wat is biggest hindu temple site which is 2nd largest
possibly Hindu Sanjaya Dynasty’s answer to the Buddhist Sailendra Dynasty’s Borobudur and Sewu temples nearby.
prambanan - java yogyakarta
Her work often explores LGBT subcultures, moments of intimacy, the HIV/AIDS crisis, and the opioid epidemic.
known for her slideshow The Ballad of Sexual Dependency? Like Arbus, this
photographer took many photographs of drag queens such as Misty and Jimmy
Paulette in a Taxi.
Nancy goldin. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed 2022 Venice Golden Bear by Laura Poitras is about her career
The poem, (1879) written in a Spanish that evokes rural Argentina, is widely seen as the pinnacle of the genre of “gauchesque” poetry (poems centered on the life of the gaucho, written in a style known as payadas) and a touchstone of Argentine national identity. named after the poem, is the most respected award for Argentine television and radio programs
Martín Fierro, also known as El Gaucho Martín Fierro, is a 2,316-line epic poem by the Argentine writer José Hernández. In the 1920s, Borges and other avant-garde Argentine writers embracing “art for art’s sake” published a magazine called Martín Fierro; they are often referred to collectively as the grupo Martín Fierro (“Martín Fierro group”
16th-century epic poem in Spanish by Alonso de Ercilla, about the Spanish Conquest of Chile. It was considered the national epic of the Captaincy General of Chile and one of the most important works of the Spanish Golden Age
La Araucana (also known in English as The Araucaniad) i
The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope, 1905 was the reason for what name in art?
Fauvism. its theoriginal “Wild Beast” - Henry Rousseau
mythical mother of the twins Romulus and Remus, who founded the city of Rome.Her story is told in the first book of Ab Urbe Condita Libri of Livy and in Cassius Dio’s Roman History. The tallest known mountain in our solar system is __________, which can be found in
an impact crater of the same name on asteroid 4 Vesta.
Legend of Rhea Silvia recounts how she was raped by Mars while she was a Vestal Virgin and as a result became the mother of Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome.
Tarquinus Superbus - last king of Rome before it became republic.
Painting “Tarquinius Superbus “by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, depicting the king sweeping the tallest heads from a patch of poppies
origin of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome
_______ is a traditional ecologically sustainable irrigation system that binds Balinese agrarian society together within the village’s Bale Banjar community center and Balinese temples
The water management is under the authority of the priests in water temples, who practice Tri Hita Karana Philosophy, a self-described relationship between humans, the earth and the gods. Tri Hita Karana draws together the realm of spirit, the human world and nature.
Subak unesco 2012
Balinese people[clarification needed] believe that ______ is a replica of Mt Meru, the central axis of the universe. The most important temple on Bali, Pura Besakih, is high on the slopes of _____
Mount Agung - stratovolcano
traditional philosophy for life on the island of Bali, Indonesia. The literal translation is roughly the “three causes of well-being” or “three reasons for prosperity.”
The three causes referred to in the principle are:
Harmony with God
Harmony among people
Harmony with nature or environment
Tri Hita Karana
It is a type of mythical lion, which is a popular dance in Bali. The dance originated from the Gianyar region, where Ubud, the popular destination for tourist to watch Balinese dance ritual. Within the Calon Arang, the dance drama in which the_____ appears, the ______ responds to Rangda’s use of magic to control and kill her to restore balance. In traditional _____ dance performances, he is portrayed in his struggles against Rangda, it is the popular part of Balinese culture.
Barong dance
a slang term for a particular relaxed state of body and mind, can best be described as the ‘sweetness of doing nothing’ or being in a ‘day-dreamy state’. The people in Dalmatia value this state highly.
Fjaka,
____ hoped that the emerging theories of physics and molecular biology could reveal the mysteries of religion, and in 1950 he created the term “_________ ________ to describe this new phase of his work. Imagery from this period became more universal, moving away from Surrealism’s personal imaginings to the shared worlds of science and religion.
Dali Nuclear mysticism. Gala was his wife. he painted Galatea of the spheres in nuclear mysticism style
