Fine Arts Flashcards
The painting “The Raft of the Medusa” by Theodore Gericault depicts the naval frigate Meduse sinking off the coast of which country in 1816?
Mauritania
What former Salzburg child prodigy once reportedly whipped off a minuet for a beggar, who sold it to a music publisher
Mozart
This artist was inspired by atomic physics to create the Disintegration of his most famous work; that work by this artist includes many melting clocks. For ten points, name this Catalan artist of The Persistence of Memory.
Salvador Dali
This collaborator of Paul Desmond had a penchant for unusual time signatures, as can be seen in “Unsquare Dance,” “Blue Rondo à la Turk,” and a song whose title references it being in 5/4. Name this jazz pianist whose album Time Out contains “Take Five.”
Dave Burbeck
Name this composer whose scores for Sergio Leone include the music for The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
Ennio Morricone
This musician’s first published instrumental song was a novelty rag called “Rialto Ripples.” A song composed by this musician is the origin of a 32-bar chord progression whose B section consists of seventh chords on scale degrees 3, 6, 2, and 5; that progression is the basis of many songs by other musicians, including “Anthropology” and “Cotton Tail.” The jazz chord progression known as “rhythm changes” derives from this composer’s song “I Got Rhythm.”
George Gershwin
The first and third movements of Brandenburg No. 5 are both marked for this tempo, a fast, lively speed of roughly 120 beats per minute, slower than vivace.
allegro
This painter of The Angelus depicted three women bending over to pick up leftover bits of grain in another painting. This member of the Barbizon School also painted many pictures of rural farmers, such as The Gleaners.
Jean-François Millet
“He is short, very quiet, wears spectacles & has a very finely developed forehead, a hooked nose, & projecting chin.” This 1855 excerpt from the diary of Queen Victoria, describes this German composer of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and the Ring Cycle.
Wilhelm Richard Wagner
Which post-impressionist painted ‘The Large Bathers’ as well as several versions of ‘The Card Players’ and numerous views of Mont Sainte-Victoire?
Paul Cezanne
Name this anti-war, anti-Bourgeois art movement formed during WW1 whose literary members included Hugo Ball and Tristan Tzara, which takes its name from a word meaning “hobby- horse.”
Dadaism
Name the city where Dadaism originated.
Zurich, Switzerland
Which Portuguese genre of music, characterized by mournful tunes and lyrical content, was inscribed as an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO in 2011?
Fado
The Royal Site of San Lorenzo, the largest renaissance building in the world located in Madrid, is a palace complex better known by what name?
El Escorial
From the Latin for “a falling”, what term in music theory describes either modulation or inflection of the voice; or the end of a phrase in a melody, often with a move from dissonant to consonant sound?
Cadence
