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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. Wrote Waiting for Godot. The only scenery for the play was a cyclorama (a giant curtain onthe back of the stage) and a single tree with one branch and one leaf.






2. 698-721. hiberno-saxon. mix of christian imagery & northern animal interlace style. classical style: curtain






3. Three-foot line






4. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.






5. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'






6. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters






7. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)






8. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery






9. artist of Return of the Prodigal Son (1636) - Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (1632) - Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer (1653) - and The Night Watch - Showed a particular interest in painting the poor and downtrodden - considered the best Dutch






10. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric

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11. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'






12. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship






13. Faulstaf wants sends identical love letters to two women - they are friends and read them together - they want to get him back so they trick him - their husbands think they are cheating on them so they want to catch them - the wives tell them of thei






14. Both wrote music based on Don Juan






15. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century






16. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson






17. American novelist - essayist and satirist - Huckleberry Finn - Tom Sawyer






18. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington






19. Considered the greatest English poet and dramatist -Hamlet - King Lear - Macbeth - Romeo and Juliet - Twelfth Night - Richard III - Julius Caesar - Much Ado






20. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).






21. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century






22. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.






23. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.






24. An Italian painter - sculptor - and architect of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Among many achievements in a life of nearly ninety years - sculpted the David and several versions of the Pieta - painted the ceiling and rear wall of the Sistine






25. Noted for his direct style - clear - sharp prose and critical wit - Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub






26. Wrote Waiting for Godot. The only scenery for the play was a cyclorama (a giant curtain onthe back of the stage) and a single tree with one branch and one leaf.






27. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)






28. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father






29. A contradiction of a story as it appears to its characters - and what the audience knows as true.






30. Impressionistic Music






31. His works provided the basis for love poetry and popularized the theme of humanism - The Cazoniere






32. Spanish artist color plate 82-The Persistence of Memroy; best known and most sensational of the Surrealists.






33. 1900 to the Present






34. Thucydides and Herodotus






35. The Persistence of Memory






36. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo






37. A tapestry that recounts the battle of hastings - A piece of linen about 1 Ft.8 in. Wide by 213 ft.long covered with embroidery representing the incidents of Willam the conqueror's expedition to England.






38. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings






39. German metaphysician - began his string of successful philosophical publications with Critique of Pure Reason in 1781 - believed that reality extended only so far as an individual's personal degree of 'knowing -' and it is impossible to 'know' thing






40. Carried the motion picture into the new era with his silent epics (The Birth of a Nation - Intolerance - etc.) which introduced serious plots and elaborate productions to filmmaking.






41. A sect of hedonism (Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure) that believes that pleasure of the mind - not just the senses - is the ultimate good. Thoroughly defended by Ancient Greek philosophers - the base of this belief system is that the goal of every






42. Carried the motion picture into the new era with his silent epics (The Birth of a Nation - Intolerance - etc.) which introduced serious plots and elaborate productions to filmmaking.






43. Artist of 'The Starry Night' (1889) - also painted 'Sunflowers' and 'Night Cafe'






44. Three dimensional work of art - statue






45. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail






46. Mannerism painter






47. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance






48. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music






49. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'






50. The 'old' stone age - during which humankind produced the first sculptures and paintings