Fine Arts, Poems, Music, Plays, not lit or mythology
Antigone
● Daughter of Oedipus, Antigone in this tragedy attempts to secure a respectable burial for
her brother Polynices.
● Antigone is brought before King Creon, who has ascended to the throne of Thebes after
the death of the brothers.
● Creon orders Antigone buried alive in a tomb, change his heart but finds she has hanged
herself.
● Creon has been destroyed by end of the story, this play was wrote by Sophocles
Robert Lee Frost-(Poet)
● “Good fences make good neighbors” in “Mending Wall” and wrote “The Road Not Taken”
● Famous American Poet who won multiple Pulitzers prizes.
● “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy evening”, Frosts best loved poem, talks about how
lovely, dark, and inviting the woods are, but talks about prior commitments to honor
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
● Play features two characters originally from Hamlet, written by Tom Stoppard
● Play opens with coin landing on heads 92 times in a row, leading
● Asked to spy by Queen of Denmark, famous for offering to lick another characters toe to
test the wind
● Ends with old man named horatio walking into slaughterhouse and finding dead people
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Religion:
○ Judaism:
■ Books:
● Books of Samuel:
○ “Bring the blood” in Leviticus to argue that laymen could
sacrifice animals
○ Speeches at Mizpah and Gilgal
○ Sliced King Agag to pieces after hearing the bleating of
sheep
○ Judge who anointed Saul and King David, named for 2
biblical books who precede the first kings
○ Islam:
■ Pillars of Islam:
● Haji(Pilgrimage):
○ Pilgrimage to the holy kaaba in Mecca, Mullims must
complete this at least once in a lifetime.
○ Men dress in only 2 sheets of white unhemmed cloth called
an ihram
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Art:
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First day of this twaf occurs
Walk 7 times around the kaaba during this event
Paintings:
■ Europe:
● France:
○ Jacques-Louis David:
■ The Death of Marat:
● Painting of assassinated French
Revolutionary
○ Figure wears a white head cloth in
this painting, along with a green rung
and vinegar soaked cloth wrapped
around its subjects head
Sculptures:
■ Ancient:
● Myron of Eleutherae:
○ Portrayed an athlete about to into his motion in
Discobolus(Discus Thrower)
○ Most versatile and innovative of all Attic sculptors
○ Sculpted Hecate, all of his other know works are in bronze
■ Pre-Modern:
● European:
○ Francois-Augsute-Rene Rodin:
■ The Gates of Hell and The Thinker are famous
works of this French sculptor
■ Turned down by academy in Paris 3 times served
long apprenticeships in multiple studious, avoided
neo classical
Architecture:
○ Andrea Palladio:
■ Wrote The Four Books on Architecture
■ Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic
■ The unfinished design of the Olympic Theatre was added after death by a
follower
■ Exemplified by many opulent houses in the Veneto
■ Inspired Thomas Jefferson's design for Monticlello.
■ Designed the Villa Rotonda
○ Frank Ghery:
■ Postmodern architect
■ Pritzker Pavilion, monorail runs through Gehry's Experience music project
in Seattle
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Designed Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA and in the Guggenheim
● Music:
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Composers:
■ Dmitri Shostakovich:
● Leningrad Symphony