Arts and Humanities Study Guide EXAM COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED DEFINITIVE SOLUTIONS (100% CORRECT ANSWERS) ||ALREADY GRADED A+

Arts and Humanities Study Guide EXAM COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED DEFINITIVE SOLUTIONS (100% CORRECT ANSWERS) ||ALREADY GRADED A+ EARLY SUNDAY MORNING - ANSWER This painting may be a commentary on the small businesses that thrived during the Great Depression. A striped pole stands in front of a barbershop that, like the other shops in the twostory building, is closed at the depicted time of day. Edward Hopper painting RHEA - ANSWER This Titan, the daughter of Uranusand Gaea, married her brother. After watching him swallow five of their children, she fed him a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes to save her newborn. Wife of Cronus and mother of Zeus FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI - ANSWER Three years before his death, this architect designed the Church of Santa Croce's Pazzi Chapel. His most impressive design is forty-five meters wide, and is the largest masonry structure of its kind ever built. Designed the dome that sits over Florence Cathedral PRELUDE TO THE AFTERNOON OF A FAUN - ANSWER This tone poem begins with a flute melody before adding strings, a harp, and horns that give way to clarinet and oboe solos. The title creature, half-man and half-goat, awakens from a nap to remember his many love affairs with forest nymphs. Orchestral work by Claude Debussy HOMER - ANSWER This writer is credited with the two greatest epics of ancient Greece. One describes a great war between the Trojans and the Mycenaeans Writer who wrote about the adventures of Odysseus GABRIELLE (GABBY) GIFFORDS - ANSWER Along with her husband, Space Shuttle Commander Mark Kelly, she co-founded the advocacy group, Americans for Responsible Solutions. In 2011, while meeting her constituents at an event called Congress on Your Corner, she was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt. Former Arizona Congresswoman, wounded in an assassination attempt TROMPE L'OEIL - ANSWER A sculptor uses this technique when he makes his work so realistic that the viewer mistakes it for the original subject. In painting, the artist renders objects in extremely fine detail to emphasize their textures and implied forms. Technique, whose name is French for "fools the eye" DULCIMER - ANSWER In a specialty type of this instrument, known as the pianoforte, a keyboard operates beaters that pluck its strings. Its European and Appalachian versions evolved from the psaltery and the zither, respectively. Instrument which, depending on its type, is hit with small hammers or plucked with a quill. TARTARUS - ANSWER In some mythological accounts, this word named the father of the monster Typhon. It's not Hades, but it gradually became the moniker for the entire Underworld. Word, which referred to the deepest region of the world, in which the gods imprisoned the Titans. LITTLE GIRL IN A BLUE ARMCHAIR - ANSWER In this portrait, a brownish-gray floor sits beneath four large pieces of furniture. A small brown dog naps near a young child, who fidgets in her overstuffed seat. Title of this Mary Cassatt portrait. ZIKA (VIRUS) - ANSWER The Center for Disease Control and Prevention states that the best way to prevent the spread of this virus is to prevent mosquito bites. This disease is linked to birth defects, and the CDC warns that pregnant women should not travel to areas affected by this virus. With no specific medicine or vaccine to treat or prevent it directly, name the virus that has had a recent outbreak in Brazil. LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE - ANSWER This architect designed the central branch of Washington D.C.'s Public Library, named in memory of Martin Luther King Jr. His Barcelona Pavilion and Crown Hall exemplify the sleek modernism valued by the International Style. International Style Architect also responsible for Farnsworth House and Lake Shore Drive (large, modern highrise apts. In Chicago). (A) GRANT WOOD - ANSWER This artist abandoned Impressionism in favor of realism, which he tested in Woman with Plants, a portrait of his mother. He depicted the rolling green hills of his home state in Fall Plowing, Spring Turning, and Haying. Placed three dour matrons at the center of Daughters of Revolution HENRY PURCELL - ANSWER This Baroque composer created incidental music for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, which he entitled The Fairy Queen. His biggest claim to fame is his one-act opera, the first of the genre written in English. Composer of Dido and Aeneas. (THE) LIMBO - ANSWER This dance, which originated in Trinidad and Tobago, was often performed at wakes, and reenacted slaves crossing under low spaces on ships. In the 1950s, its slow, solemn nature morphed into an upbeat performance to calypso music. Dance, in which performers bend and twist to pass under a successively lower horizontal bar? LULLABY - ANSWER This kind of song is short, repetitive, and rhyming to hold the audience's attention and help the performer remember it. It promotes bonding, listening skills, language development, and perhaps most importantly, sleep. Genre of songs like "Rockabye Baby" and "Hush, Little Baby." POPE FRANCIS (THE FIRST) - ANSWER This leader is noted for his humility, exemplified by his choice to live in a two-room apartment, rather than the palace enjoyed by his predecessors. His interfaith outreach, care for the poor, and "who am I to judge?" mantra helped earn him Time Magazine's 2013 Person of the Year designation. First Jesuit and first Latin American pope. Annie Get Your Gun - ANSWER This musical's hits include "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly," "Anything You Can Do," and "There's No Business Like Show Business." The title character falls in love with sharpshooter Frank Butler, who begins working for a rival business after she eclipses his popularity in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Irving Berlin musical, based on the life of actual sharpshooter Annie Oakley. PIETER BRUEGEL (THE ELDER) - ANSWER This painter depicted biblical and mythological scenes in The Tower of Babel and Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. He turned to allegory in The Triumph of Death, but is most celebrated for his genre paintings of his contemporaries. Artist of The Peasant Wedding and Hunters in the Snow. BUDDHISM - ANSWER This religion teaches that life's suffering results from attachment to things, but can be overcome by following a life path. That path, or dharma, is represented by an eight-spoked wheel for correct view, speech, intention, action, livelihood, mindfulness, effort, and concentration. Eastern religion, based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama GREEN ROOM - ANSWER This two-word phrase names the lounge in a broadcasting studio or theater that actors use when they are not onstage. Space, despite its name, is often tan or white WATER MUSIC - ANSWER This work, traditionally grouped into suites in F major, D major, and G major, was performed four times at its 1717 premiere. Originally written for fifty musicians, its lively dance movements lent themselves to outdoor performance.