Fine Arts Flashcards
“Samson and Delilah” was a 1949 epic by what guy who also directed Hollywood’s first feature-length film?
He did like a biblical theme: “The Ten Commandments” was the final movie by what guy whose middle name was Blount?
Cecil B. DeMille
“What film directed by Steven Spielberg is based on a 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker?”
The Color Purple
The 2000 film Memento was directed by
Christopher Nolan
The film follows Leonard Shelby (Pearce), a man who suffers from anterograde amnesia—resulting in short-term memory loss and the inability to form new memories
The fortified high point in Athens gets its name from the Greek meaning “high city”
Acropolis
Once the center of Athenian life, the acropolis is now the site of famous ruins, including the Parthenon in Greek the word means “high” (acro) “city” (polis)
An opera by Giuseppe Verdi, whose title character is an Ethiopian princess who loves an Egyptian warrior, Radames
Aida (eye-EE-duh)
He accidentally reveals Egyptian military secrets to her, and is condemned to death by live burial in a tomb. Aida fleas, but rejoins Radames to die with him.
Aida is a particularly spectacular opera with lavish sets, costumes, and extras.
This longest-running play in the West End, and indeed the world, is by Agatha Christie
“The Mousetrap”
The American pop artist Jasper John’s famously made a series of paintings depicting this national symbol
American flag
In a 1932 Work, Man Ray shows a woman whose face is dotted with glass beads representing these
Tears
20th century American playwright of the dramas Tiny Alice and A Delicate Balance
Edward Albee
his plays reflected the influence of the theater of the absurd. his psychological dramas also include Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
This 20th century African-American Contrato became the first person to sing with the Metropolitan Opera of New York City
Marian Anderson
In 1941 a planned concert by Anderson at Constitutional Hall was blocked by the daughters of the American Revolution, who owned the hall, because she was black. With the sport of the president, Franklin D Roosevelt and his wife, Eleanor, Anderson gave a free concert on the steps of the Lincoln memorial, which was attended by more than 75,000 people
Reese Witherspoon played Cecily in this movie adaptation of what Oscar Wilde play
The Importance of Being Earnest
Jazz artist with the nickname Satchmo
Louis Armstrong
A 20th century African-American, jazz trumpet player and singer. His nickname Satchmo was short for “satchel mouth“. Armstrong, whose career spanned five decades, was celebrated for his trumpet solos, and the gravelly voice in which he sang songs such as “Hello, Dolly“ and “It’s a Wonderful World“
An 18th century, German composer, organist, and choirmaster, commonly considered the greatest composer of the baroque era. Some of his works include the Toccata and Fugue in D-minor for organ
Johann Sebastian Bach
His output was enormous and included Cantatas, concertos, oratorios, organ pieces, sonatas for solo instruments, and suites for both solo instruments and Orchestra; all of it is marked by elaborate counterpoint (the use of two or more melodies at the same time in a piece of music; it was an important part of Baroque music.)
The Rodger’s and Hammerstein musical, Oklahoma!, was choreographed by
Agnes de Mille
This was her first time choreographing a musical on Broadway
“What piano prodigy had their first number one hit with fingertips when they were just 13 years old?”
Stevie Wonder
The first Academy Awards, held at the Roosevelt Hotel in 1929, saw this war movie winning for “Outstanding Picture.”
Wings
1987 American romantic comedy film directed by Norman Jewison that stars Cher as a widowed Italian American woman who falls in love with her fiancé’s hot-tempered, estranged younger brother, played by Nicolas Cage.
Moonstruck
This French artist’s “The Dance Class” shows choreographer Jules Perrot leading a group of ballerinas
Edgar Degas
Just before the end of Act 2 in this Tracy Letts play, Barbara screams at her mom, “I’m running things now!”
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