S12: Portuguese art, literature and music

Question 1

National Identity in art and literature

Answer 1

Romanticism and Modernism important part of the identity

Question 2

Eça de Queiroz

Answer 2

Naturalism and Realism

The greatest Portuguese novelist

Question 3

Portugal in the work of Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Paula Rego and Joana Vasconcelos

Answer 3

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva: abstract work, did two important abstract posters for 25th of April 1974

Paula Rego: abstract style work, lived in England but had a dialogue with Portugal

Joana Vasconcelos: known for great scale works

Question 4

The 1974 Revolution in street art

Answer 4

Carnation Flowers and Salqueiro Maia

Question 5

Portuguese music: Fado and Cante Alentejano

Answer 5

Fado mid 19th century and the portuguese guitarra

Question 6

Grandola Vila Morena

Answer 6

Grandola Vila Morena = song broadcasted as a signal to start the revolution