Reino Unido Cultura

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Art and Culture.
The art of the United Kingdom covers all the artistic manifestations made since the founding of the country to the present day. Greater process time for British Arts was during theEmpire. Currently, there are several art institutions in the United Kingdom, which several art movements and artists featured in his field have emerged. These include the Royal Academy, the RoyalCollege of Art, Royal Society of Arts and the Tate Gallery; it also has a several museums and galleries of international prestige, as the British Museum, the National Gallery of London, the NationalGallery of Scotland, the London Science Museum or the Yorkshire Museum.
Literature
The English author and poet William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest dramatist of all time.
Notablepre-modern and early-modern English writers include Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Malory, Sir Thomas More, John Bunyan, John Milton, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy,A. A. Milne, Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton, George Orwell, Ian Fleming; Scotland's contributions include the detective writer Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Burns, Hugh MacDiarmid, Neil M. Gunn, Iain Banks,among others.
Music
Various styles of music are popular in the UK from the indigenous folk music of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to heavy metal. Notable composers of classical musicfrom the United Kingdom and the countries that preceded it include William Byrd, Henry Purcell, Sir Edward Elgar, Gustav Holst, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten.  The UKis also home to world-renowned symphonic orchestras and choruses such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Chorus.
The Beatles are the biggest-selling and most influential band inhistory of popular music, they have international sales of over one billion units. Other prominent British contributors to have influenced popular music over the last 50 years include; The Rolling...
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