Arts And Humanities 2022-2023

High school academic team arts and humanities questions

Thomas Gainsborough

Recognized for painting every section of his works himself—unusual in the art field of that period. Painted The Blue Boy and The Honorable Mrs. Graham.

Transcendentalism

A nineteenth-century movement in the Romantic tradition, which held that every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition, which transcends reason and sensory experience.

The Thinker

By by Auguste Rodin. Originally called the poet, statue of Dante overlooking the gates of hell

Arcade

Covered walkway that often fronts a series of shops whose roof is supported by a series of arches

Calliope

The oldest muse. Muse of epic poetry. Married Eagro. Carries a trumpet in one hand and a scroll of parchment in the other.

Clio

Muse of history. Trumpet in her left hand, represented with a globe.

Bartok

Hungarian composer and pianist who collected Hungarian folk music in the 20th century

Euterpe

Muse of lyric poetry and the flute. Mother of Reso. "The Very Pleasant One"

Melpomene

Muse of tragedy. Symbols are a tragic mask, club of Hercules and a sword. "The one who is melodious"

Polyhymnia

Muse of hymns, lyre, and agriculture. Often depicted with a chain in her hands to show her power over eloquence.

Thalia

Muse of comedy and theater. The "joyous, flourishing" muse.

Terpsichore

Muse of dance and light poetry. Mother of sirens, seduces sailors in The Odyssey.

Urania

The youngest muse. Wears a crown of stars. The muse of astronomy and astrology.

Erato

Muse of romantic poetry. Depicted with two turtle doves pecking at her feet. Sometimes accompanied by the god Eros.

Man at the Crossroads

Ode to Communism, up at Rockefeller Center. Was torn down because it depicted Vladimir Lenin

Annie Leibovitz

An American portrait photographer. She photographed John Lennon on the day he was assassinated. Often did photos for Rolling Stone magazine. She is the only woman to have held an exhibition at London's National Portrait Gallery.

Apostasy

Renouncing and leaving one's religion

Robert Collins is credited with creating this term, the point at which receding parallel lines converge

Robert Collins is credited with creating this term, the point at which receding parallel lines converge

Audrey Hepburn

Played Holly Golightly in Breakfast At Tiffany's. Also played Eliza DoLittle in My fair Lady.

Fidelio

Only opera by Beethoven, woman dresses up as title character to get her husband out of prison

Alan Menkin

worked with Jack Feldman on Newsies. Wrote the songs for Little Shop of Horrors. Scores for Disney films have included The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast.

Bartok

"Concerto for Orchestra", "Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celeste". Created "The Wooden Prince"

Elliot Carter

Composed "Figment" and "Retracing", died in 2012 at the age of 103?

Titian

Venus of Urbino

Frida Kahlo

"I hope to never return" shortly after finishing a portrait of watermelons, one of which is cut open to reveal the phrase "Viva la vida"

Frida Kahlo

The Suicide Of Dorothy Hale

Gericault

Used facial expressions to portray mental illnesses in his monomaniacs series. French Romantic artist who painted the Raft Of Medusa.

Unfinished "Frieze of Life"

Edvard Munch

Mezzotint

an intaglio printmaking process based on roughening the entire printing plate to accept ink; the artist smoothes non-image areas

Aquatint

an intaglio printmaking process that uses melted rosin or spray paint to create an acid-resistant ground

stipple

speckle or fleck with paint, effect of many small dots

Renoir

Luncheon of the Boating Party

Knight, Death, and the Devil

Albrecht Durer

Glissade

Ballet move that ends in 5th position. Bends their knees, extends one leg to the front, side, or back, then transfers weight to the extended leg while bringing the other to meet it.

Pirouette

Begins in plie and extends into releve or pointe. Ballet term for a turn in place on one leg.

Plie

Absorbs the shock of jumps and turns. Can be performed in any basic position, with heels touching the floor in demi or raised in grand. General bending of the knees.

Tendu

Sometimes found after battement. The dancer moves one leg to the front, back, or side, with only their toes touching the floor. French for "stretched."

Salsa

Similar to the mambo, but is generally faster, accents the first beat of each measure. Originated in the 1970s as a blend of cha cha cha and son. Hip swinging dance with heavy Cuban and Puerto Rican influences.

Waltz

Features a step, slide, step pattern. Boston version is much slower and smoother than the Viennese version. 19th century dance in 3-four time

Analects

This book claims that not adopting the unaltered ways of one's father for three years after his death is one definition of "filial." This book claims the nature of a community is based on the "ren" of those who live there, one of its many aphorisms that begin with the phrase "The Master said." Name this collection of the teachings and sayings of Confucius.

The Music Of The Night

Phantom of the Opera sings this to Christine after he has enticed her into his lair.

Tablature

notation that indicates how to pluck, stop, or touch each string rather than indicating pitch. Uses shapes instead of notes

Shylock

Identify this antagonist and moneylender from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. "When you prick us we do not bleed."

Brutus

Shakespearean character who was one of the conspirators who stabbed Julius Caesar to death.

Rick Blaine

Who owns Cafe American in Casablanca, is played by Humphrey Bogart and is a drunkard?

Harlequin/Arlecchino

Pantomime character known for his arched eyebrows and costume covered in brightly colored patches. Superstitious slave who later morphed into a faithful servant

Marc Antony

"Wears the rose of youth." "I come to bury Caesar, not praise him." Gives the funeral oration for Julius Caesar

Marius Petipa

Chief choreographer for St. Petersburg's Marinsky Theatre. Choreographed The Nutcracker, The Pharoah's Daughter, and Don Quixote.

Gherkin

The tapered building featured ^ that was built by Norman Foster in London

Slip

Creamy solutoin of clay dissolved in water

St. Paul's Cathedral

A church on Ludgate Hill redesigned by Christopher Wren

Venice

Where is St. Mark's Basilica located?

The Rivals

Play about Captain Absolute and Lydia Languish. Comedy produced in 1773 and written by Richard Sheridan

Bharata Natyam

What classical solo dance of southern India both tells a story and expresses Hindu religious devotion?

Franz Liszt

Known for his Hungarian rhapsodies

Stravinsky

Petrushka and the Firebird

Ballet Russes

Identify the ballet company founded by Sergei Diaghilev with music by Rimsky-Korsakov and Stravinsky and sets by PIcasso

Randolph Coleman

Played a 40 minute improvisation, first saxophonist to win a regular Pulitzer with his album Sound Grammar

Thrust (stage)

Stage surrounded by the audience on 3 sides

Traverse (stage)

Stage surrounded by the audience on 2 sides

Cha Cha Cha

Dance that begins on the second beat and features a front-back rocking step followed by 3 short side-to-side steps

All The World's A Stage

Shakespeare's As You Like It, is followed by the line "And all the men and women merely players"

As You Like It

A comedy by William Shakespeare. Most of the action takes place in the Forest of Arden, to which several members of a duke's court have been banished. The speech "All The World's A Stage"

The Factory

The name of Andy Warhol's studio

Arthur Mitchell

performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine, later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem, first African American principle dancer

Alvin Ailey

Founded American Dance Theater in New York City; choreographed "Revelations"; noted for his use of African elements; died of AIDS.

Named his Gallery after its Fifth Avenue Address, 291. and displayed works of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Photographer whose works include more than 300 pictures of his wife, Georgia O'Keefe.

Olmsted

Landscape Architect of Manhattan's central park

The Producers

Musical about failing producers who create an offensive musical about Hitler and the Third Reich. Includes "Keep It Gay" and "Springtime"

Intaglio

Form of art where paper is embossed on a metal plate to pick up ink that has been applied to grooves of the image. When the image is hollowed out into the material rather than raised.

Terra Cotta

Means baked earth; hard, brownish-red pottery

Handfasting

Marriage ceremony that binds two people together, common in Wicca and Celtic culture.

Wicca

Founded by Gerald Gardner

Sfumato

The technique of allowing tones and colors to shade gradually into one another, producing softened outlines or hazy forms

Wax

Forms can be encaustic and batik

Picasso

Painted Acrobat and Young Harlequin in his rose period 1904

The Planets

Suites made by Gustav Holst, each with nicknames like "The Bringer of..."

Tristan and Isolde

Richard Wagner- Munich, Germany- 1865- inspired by the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer. Man washes up on shore because his family thought he was dead, is nursed back to health, falls love in love with the girl, gets in battle for her, wins, has to give her to his master

Mars

The Bringer Of War, most popular Holst movement

Venus

Bringer of Peace

Mercury

The Winged Messenger

Jupiter

The Bringer Of Jollity

Saturn

The Bringer Of Old Age

Uranus

The Magician

Neptune

The Mystic

Audobon

artist and naturalist, produced The Birds of America

Moliere

French actor/playwright who produced comedies that made fun of French society. Made Les Misanthrope

The Jungle

This 1906 work by Upton Sinclair pointed out the abuses of the meat packing industry. The book led to the passage of the 1906 Meat Inspection Act. Muckraking.

Bellerophon

Tamed Pegasus with a golden bridle; killed Chimaera; tried to fly Pegasus to Olympus

Frederick Schiller

Who wrote the poem that the iconic Ode To Joy by Beethoven was named after

Pomato

An Indian fruit related to tomatoes and potatoes

Igor Stravinsky

One of his songs, The Right of Spring was so controversial that riots ensued due to its loud and non-classical nature. Completed two grand ballets for Sergei Diaghilev: Firebird and Petruska.

Arnold Schoenberg

The creator of the twelve-tone (aka dodecaphonic) system of atonal music. Composed an unfinished opera called Moses und Aron. It's first two acts are still frequently performed.

Benjamin Britten

Reviver of the opera in the U.K., most notably with Peter Grimes (1945), the story of a fisherman who kills two of his apprentices. Founded the Aldeburgh Festival Of Music and wrote operas such as the Turn of The Screw.

Aaron Copland

The first American student of Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Composed ballets such as Billy The Kid, Rodeo, and Appalachian Spring (with Martha Graham)

Aaron Copland

Composed Fanfare for the Common Man and Lincoln Portrait

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

From Russia in the 19-20th Century. Composed The Tale of the Tsar Saltan (containing Flight of the Bumblebee)

Prokofiev

Composed works for Diagilev such as The Prodigal Son, which Balanchine choreographed. Completed Peter And the Wolf

Dmitri Shostakovich

Composer from Russia in the 20th Century. Works include The Nosei, Lady Macbeth of Mtensk District, and Thirteenth Symphony (Babi Yar)

Bartok

Roamed the Hungarian countryside with Zoltan Kodaly to collect pleasant Hungarian tunes. Created the opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle, the ballets The Wooden Prince and The Miraculous Mandarin. He also composed the educational piano piece Mirokosmos.