Art and Painting
Young Girls is the most famous painting by this artist. It won a gold medal at the Paris Salon in 1933, when they were only 19 years old. Set in an affluent home, it depicts two women in close conversation modelled on her sister and a friend. This artist was known for their intimate portraits of women. Largely ignored in their own lifetime, they have been posthumously lauded as one of the most important figures in the Indian modern art movement.
Who is Amrita Sher-gil?
This recently deceased playback singer and musician is known for a storied career across Indian film industries and a catalogue of nearly 50,000 songs. In 2013, they refused to accept the Padma Bhushan and stated that "the award has come late in her five-and-half-decade long career." Thus they became one in a handful of individuals who have refused the civilian honour and certainly the only one who felt they had deserved more.
Who is S. Janaki?
It is an animated series notable for breaking the Oscar win streak of Walt Disney studios, who won almost continuously until 1942 in the category of Best Animated Short. It went on to become the most nominated series in the award’s history, with 13 appearances on the ballot. It also ties with Disney’s Silly Symphonies for most wins (7).
What is Tom and Jerry?
The events of this emperor’s death by fasting are shown in a stone relief at a 9th Century Ganga-era Basadi at Sravanabelagola. While this site is known today for its massive monolithic statue of Gomatesvara, it also has a Basadi nearby that is named for this emperor. According to the Jain Digambara tradition, this emperor is said to have abdicated at a young age and become a monk under the tutelage of Bhadrabahu, a Jain spiritual leader in Sravanabelagola. He is said to have spent the rest of his life there.
Who is Chandragupta Maurya?
This goddess first appeared in Bengali literature in the late 19th century, and was popularised by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. The first visual representation of her came from Abindranath Tagore, who represented her iconography in a painting named after her, painted in 1905. She soon became an important symbol amongst Indian nationalists, and even found support from Gandhi who inaugurated her first temple in 1936 in Varanasi.
Who is Bharat Mata?
This was an avant-garde, absurdist art movement that started in Europe in the aftermath of the First World War, centred around the principle of rejecting the prevailing ideas surrounding art, and mainstream society more broadly. It adopted nonsense and ridicule to challenge conventional aesthetic values, and protest against war, nationalism, and cultural conformity.
The movement soon dissolved, but it greatly influenced other forms of modernist art such as surrealism and social realism. Some more recent music artists like Frank Zappa and Chumbawamba have acknowledged the influence this movement had on them.
What is Dadaism?
This American artist is famous for his comedy songs that parody pieces by other musicians. His real first name is Alfred, although he is better known by his nickname.
He performs original pastiches of the work of other artists, parodying the tropes of various musicians or genres. Most of his songs feature his trademark accordion. He has sold over 12 million albums since his debut in 1976 at just age 16, and performed more than 2000 live shows.
Who is ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic?
Shankar Nag, pioneering filmmaker and actor, was also known as a champion of social causes. He demonstrated his love for his home city Bengaluru, in films such as Auto Raja and Nodi Swami. In the late 80s, he advocated for this public works project to be built in Bengaluru, something the city wouldn’t see for more than two decades after he tragically passed away.
What is Bengaluru Metro?
Derived from the Tamil language, this word first appeared in English around 1845, when the smell of imported Indian cashmere and silk shawls packed with "green leaves", began to grow on the consumers, who started associating it with Victorian luxury.
What is Patchouli?
Taro hirai, or as he is known by his pen name Edogawa Rampo, was heavily influenced by this other author, when creating works like" the two sen copper coin", that earned him the title of "the father of Japanese mystery and detective fiction".
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
In 2022, during a visit to the United States, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi gifted a series of miniature paintings to US President Joe Biden. These belonged to a particular style that flourished in the eighteenth century but has origins dating back to the arrival of painters into the region’s royal courts as early as the sixteenth century. The majority of these paintings show scenes of romance and love, particularly between Krishna and Radha. This style is named for the kingdom where it flourished, which is now a district in Himachal Pradesh.
What is Kangra Painting?
This punk rock singer turned music journalist is best known for his in depth interviews with musicians. He is known for his unique outifit and catchphrases including “doot doo da loot doo”. His questions to artists often feature very obscure details about their lives, which often unnerves and frightens the artists.
Who is Nardwuar?
Dharmendra, playing the role of Yakut Jamaluddin, is seen in the Razia Sultan in this form of exaggerated make-up, the likes of which would be widely criticised today. The style has its origins in Europe and America, but has long been shunned for being racist and basically a hate crime.
What is Blackface?
These renaissance artists both sculpted the biblical figure David, but nearly a century apart. The former began with a marble statue depicting him fully clothed, before following it with a classical-style unclothed statue in bronze. The latter would work only with marble but still depict him nude, as this style had become commoner thanks to the work of those like the former. This later David is much larger, more than twice as large as the earlier statues.
Who are Donatello and Michaelangelo?
The Charition mime is a Greek theatre play found in Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 413, a possibly incomplete and untitled manuscript discovered at Oxyrhynchus, Egypt and dated approximately to the 2nd century CE. The play is named after its protagonist, Charition, who lives on the West coast of India. After its modern publication, linguist scholar E. Hultzsch suggested that some part of the untranslated dialogue belongs to a particular language. The has led the speakers of this language to include this example in nearly every quiz celebrating the culture of the state where it
What is Kannada?
The away kit of the Belgian National Team for the 2026 World Cupm described by the Royal Belgian FA as “a tribute to René Magritte and Belgian Surrealism,” featured this phrase. It is a reference to The Treachery of Images by Magritte, present on the jersey, featuring this variation of the famous sentence printed on the painting.
What is the meaning/significance of “This is not a jersey”?
This is a French electronic music duo formed in 2003, known for incorporating strong disco, rock, and metal influences into their electro house sound. They have released four studio albums, the most famous of which is their 2007 debut. Most recently, they composed the original score for Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto VI.
Who are Justice?
Not a real person, it was an official pseudonym used by director’s who did not want to be associated with a film in the credits. It was in use between 1968 and 2000, when all members of the Director’s Guild of America had to use it if they wanted to disown a project because it had strayed from their creative vision, or they lacked sufficient control over its creation.
Who was Alan Smithee?
This handicraft form unique to northern Karnataka is known for its intricate and delicate design. At least 700 years old, this form is developed as a result of Persian and Indian influences. Awarded a GI tag in 2006, this handicraft is kept alive by dedicated artisans operating in small pockets across the country even today.
What is Bidriware?
This is a 1970 play written by Dario Fo, based on the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan, Italy, and the subsequent death of an anarchist suspect (posthumously cleared of guilt) in police custody. The play satirises police brutality, depicting their clumsy attempts to disguise the death of the anarchist (who was thrown out of a fifth-floor window) as suicide or an accident.
The play is one of the most famous and acclaimed works of Fo, and has been performed in over 40 countries across the world (including India).
What is The Accidental Death of an Anarchist?
Born into the aristocracy, this French painter broke both his legs during adolescence, leaving him with a stunted appearance. In later life, he developed an affinity for brothels and prostitutes that directed the subject matter for many of his works, which record details of the late-19th-century bohemian lifestyle in Paris. He is among the painters described as Post-Impressionists along with figures such as Paul Cezanne, Georges Seurat, and Van Gogh.
Who is Henri Toulouse Lautrec?
This British band are regarded as one of the pioneers of heavy metal, not just in terms of their music, but also due to their popularisation of the leather-and-studs image that would later come to be very strongly associated with the genre. The lead singer of the band is also notable for being one of the most prominent figures in metal to be publicly gay.
The band were notably sued in 1990, for allegedly being responsible for an incident in Nevada when two young men shot themselves after listening to their 1978 album Stained Class. The band were accused of embedding messages such as “try suicide” and “let’s be dead” through backmasking in their record. The judge dismissed the lawsuit on the basis that the so-called subliminal message was mere coincidence.
Answer: who are Judas Priest?
This Canadian Game Show Host, hosted Jeopardy for nearly 37 Seasons, he has also hosted various game shows and appeared in cameos in various Movies and TV Shows, including but not limited to, Rain Man, Predator 2, Groundhog Day, Seinfeld, Charlie's Angels, etc.
Who is Alex Trebek?
It is an enormous band of embroidered linen from the Middle Ages, depicting more than 70 scenes (with Latin inscriptions) of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. It is both remarkable as a work of art and important as a source for 11th-century history. It is not really an example of what it is called, which is instead a woven decorative fabric, the design of which is built up in the course of weaving. The design of this artwork is instead embroidered onto an already woven fabric using worsted wool thread of 10 colors.
Bayeux Tapestry
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