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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. Fast






2. School of nonsense and anti-art






3. Student of michelangelo - made the school of athens - and the madonna and child series. used pudgeyness to show that people aren't as perfect as they thought.






4. Spanish surrealist painter






5. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance






6. Artist of 'Clock Explosion' - 'Persistence of Memory' - 'The Elephants' - and 'The Meditative Rose' - painted very precise - and nightmarish scenes






7. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson






8. The language used to represent things - actions - or ideas - in a descriptive manner. Example: the brook - babbling and bubbling around rocks and stones.






9. Known as the Father of Taoism - Sixth century B.C. philosopher Lao Tzu (or 'Old Sage') is credited with starting the philosophy of Taoism. Some scholars believe that he was a slightly older contemporary of Confucius.






10. Repititions of geometric lines






11. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.






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






13. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.






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






15. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim






16. Science fiction writer






17. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'






18. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.






19. Founded by the prophet Mohammad - Followers - called Muslims - go by the book of the Qur'an - the word of God as told to Mohammed. There are five basic principles to Islam: first - there is only one God - and Mohammed is the only mouthpiece of God; s






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






21. Is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin - containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables.






22. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw






23. Frank Lloyd Wright designed what?






24. Church in Ravenna - Italy built by Justinian. Known for color - mosaics - and gold.






25. Goddess of Marriage






26. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.






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






28. The Italian sculptor and goldsmith who was best known for the doors to the baptistery of Florence's cathedral - and another set of doors which was called 'The Gates to Paradise'. He also wrote one of the earliest autobiographies by an artist - which






29. Wrote operas






30. School of nonsense and anti-art






31. Rebirth






32. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'






33. Famous French impressionist composer






34. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)






35. Born in 1508 - ______________ was greatly influenced by Renaissance philosophers and artists - and was made architectural advisor to the Vatican in 1570. His great architectural works include Villa Foscari - Teatro Olimpico - and Palazzo Chiericati -






36. Mannerism painter






37. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)






38. Consists of lines that do not have regular meter or rhyme






39. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives






40. Spanish surrealist painter






41. God of the Underworld and Death






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






43. Action painting - put his canvas on the floor and brought his whole body into action while he splashed and dripped colors in swirling configurations






44. Pre-Socrates






45. Method of composition by which the composer extends the technique of twelve tone composition to other areas such as rhythm dynamics timbre and duration. Most important invention in the 20th century.






46. 698-721. hiberno-saxon. mix of christian imagery & northern animal interlace style. classical style: curtain






47. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art






48. I and the Village






49. German philosopher born in 1844 - More of a moralist than a philosopher (though his name is arguably the most widely recognized) - Nietzsche hated Western civilization with a passion and spent much of his time denouncing it. He believed in a superma






50. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.







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