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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Georges Pierre Seurat
korai
Remington
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Alexander Dumas
2. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Aristotle
Serge Diaghilev
presto
William Shakespeare
3. Movement in Church design towards theme of 'Christ - the Light of the World' - Gothic structure (reflected God's transcendence - power - and beauty). Built higher - allowed large stain glass windows. Served as visual catechism for those living during
Tchaikovsky
Degas
Jules Verne
Medieval Architecture
4. Leucippus and Democritus
Atomists
Lorraine Hansberry
George Sand
Dimeter
5. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.
Whole Tone Scale
Moai
pieta
Frank Lloyd Wright
6. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
presto
Stravinsky
Shudras
cellini
7. Influential in establishing the heroic couplet - Alexander's Feast - heroic stanzas
Bayeux tapestry
John Dryden
Aside
William Shakespeare
8. Composed 'Rite of Spring'
Aristotle
Cervantes
Stravinsky
Rhymed Verse
9. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
Islam
mosaics
Ares/Mars
Herman Melville
10. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Pearl Buck
Plato
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pallas Athena/Minerva
11. French impressionist painter
pieta
Monet
Cerros
Langston Hughes
12. God of Wine and Theatre
Dionysus/Bacchus
Obelisk
T.S. Eliot
William Faulkner
13. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
IM Pei
Lorraine Hansberry
Byzantine Style
Benjamin Franklin
14. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
bust
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
gothic age architecture
Jane Austen
15. Libertine whose focused prose - Social Contract
Heraclitus
Leo Tolstoy
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Greek Doric
16. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Picasso
Jean Fragonard
Thomas Hobbes
Issac Asimov
17. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Hamlet
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
barbara hepworth
Stephen Crane
18. Death of a Salesman
Iambic pattern
Kshatriyas
Arthur Miller
Cervantes
19. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
Demeter/Ceres
Vincent van Gogh
aside
henry moore
20. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
multi-media
James Joyce
Serialism
Satire
21. Artist of 'Clock Explosion' - 'Persistence of Memory' - 'The Elephants' - and 'The Meditative Rose' - painted very precise - and nightmarish scenes
chalice
tempura
El Greco
Salvador Dali
22. Architect; Guggenheim museum Spain branch; see figure 14.19 on page 366
Mark Twain
Fauvism
Frank Gehry 1929
Impressionistic Art came before
23. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Eros/Cupid
American Indian Rugs
Verdi and Puccini
Penny Marshall
24. Painted 'The Bathers'
Jean Fragonard
Herman Melville
Lionel Hampton
Hera/Juno
25. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
multi-media
Herman Melville
Niccolo Machiavelli
Pablo Picasso
26. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Trimeter
Penny Marshall
New Orleans
Edgar Allen Poe
27. British abstract sculptor
Flying buttresses
Poseidon/Neptune
barbara hepworth
A long syllable
28. God of the Underworld and Death
Richard Sheridan
Baroque art
Merry Wives of Windsor
Hades/Pluto
29. Published Phenomenology of Mind in 1807 and Philosophy of Right in 1821 - According to the Hegelian dialectic - one thought (i.e. being) invariably leads to a thought of its antithesis (not being) - and the two must come together to form an entirely
Victor Hugo
Georg W. F. Hegel
El Greco
Othello
30. A contradiction of a story as it appears to its characters - and what the audience knows as true.
Henry Dixon Cowell
William Faulkner
Serge Diaghilev
Irony
31. Plato's teacher - declared that the gods had named him the wisest of all humanity - because he was the only one who knew how little he knew - he was later condemned to death by drinking poison hemlock by fellow Athenians for his alleged atheism.
Socrates
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
constantin brancusi
Johannes Brahms
32. Believe in the four noble truths: existence is suffering - suffering is caused by need - suffering can cease - and there is a path to the cessation of suffering. Though Buddhists do not believe in a god - they follow the teachings of the mortal Budd
Lionel Hampton
Samuel Beckett
michelangelo
Buddhists
33. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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34. Known for non-traditional forms of poetry - Tulips and Shimneys
Lindisfarne Gospel
E.E. Cummings
Jules Verne
henry moore
35. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
James Joyce
Pythagoras
Parmenides
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
36. 1900 to the Present
Modern Period
Renoir
multi-media
Remington
37. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Andrew Wyeth
pop art
Henrik Ibsen
38. Painted 'Annunciation' - Annunciation - Siena Cathedral - Italy - international gothic - (Early 14th)
Brahmans
Simone Martini
Mary Shelley
Macbeth
39. Architect who like a statue at every corner
Andrea Palladio
flat
Post Impressionism
korai
40. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Aaron Copeland
Mark Twain
Christopher Marlowe
Rhymed Verse
41. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Arthur Miller
Langston Hughes
Johannes Brahms
Modern Period
42. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Daniel Defoe
Cervantes
Persian Rugs
Aubrey Beardsley
43. The 'old' stone age - during which humankind produced the first sculptures and paintings
William Blake
Cynics
Paleolithic
Mary Wollstonecraft
44. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)
Renoir
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
ballet
constantin brancusi
45. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
Tetrameter
pop art
Merry Wives of Windsor
Jane Austen
46. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Giotto
Lorraine Hansberry
Reliquary
47. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
mosaics
Mathew Brady
french female pose
Donatello
48. Artist of 'Liberty Leading People' (1831) and 'The Massacre of Chios' (1824) - Known for his dramatic imagery
Eugene Delacroix
barbara hepworth
Alice Walker
The Parthenon
49. DNA of the song
Peter Paul Rubens
Penny Marshall
Pentatonic Scale
El Greco
50. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
Maia/Fauna
Onomatopoeia
Blank Verse
aside
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