He was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He enriched established German styles through his skill in counterpoint, harmonic and motivic organization. He was also adept in the adaptation of rhythms, forms, and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France. His compositions included the Brandenburg Concertos, the Goldberg Variations, the Mass in B minor, two Passions, and over three hundred cantatas of which around two hundred survive. Identify this composer shown in this 1746 portrait (Pic 44).
5. This American artist was a leading figure in the visual art movement called Pop Art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, he became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist. A 2009 article in The Economist described him as the "bellwether of the art market". His works include some of the most expensive paintings ever sold. Who is he? 6. In 1938, an architect Alfred Mosher Butts created this game as a variation on an earlier game he invented which he called Lexiko. Butts worked out the scoring system of the game quite meticulously by counting letter-usage from various sources including The New York Times. Since then, one hundred million sets of this game have been sold worldwide. Which …show more content…
This (in)famous incident happened in the early hours of Thursday 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England. This was carried out by a 15-member team lead by Bruce Reynolds. A two-part British television was produced in 2013 with the same name as that given to this incident. What are we talking about? 2. This personality was well-known for both his use of color and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. Along with Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, he is commonly regarded as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Who is he? 3. This is a technique that enables a light field, which is generally the product of a light source scattered off objects, to be recorded and later reconstructed when the original light field is no longer present, due to the absence of the original objects. This technique can be thought of as somewhat similar to sound recording, whereby a sound field created by vibrating matter like musical instruments or vocal cords, is encoded in such a way that it can be reproduced later, without the presence of the original vibrating matter. What technique are we talking