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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. 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.






2. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures






3. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience






4. Gainsborough (1727-1788) was one of the first great landscape artists of his time - and was recognized for painting every section of his works himself






5. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed






6. Spanish surrealist painter






7. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives






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






9. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'






10. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'






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






12. Chiefly responsible for bringing literature to the middle-class - The Canterbury Tales






13. An English writer who wrote 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' - arguing that women are not naturally inferior to men - but appear to be so because of lack of education






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






15. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.






16. Three dimensional work of art - statue






17. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'






18. God of the sea






19. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.






20. Goddess of Hunting






21. Addressing of a person or thing that is not actually their. Example: Romeo - Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?!






22. 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






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






24. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings






25. What type of column is a simple - plain shaft?






26. French Painter - Post impressionism - pointellism (using several small dots of color to create a larger image)Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte






27. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people






28. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.






29. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'






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






31. The Mayans built their first temple in ____________.






32. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Henry David Thoreau






33. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey






34. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world. Constructed of interlocking domes.






35. Famous for black and white erotic paintings






36. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'






37. One of the first women of Impressionist painters; Young Girl by the Window






38. Played the xylophone and marimba






39. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft






40. A style of art in the mid to late 16th century that permitted artists to express their own 'manner' or feelings in contrast to the symmetry and simplicity of the art of the High Renaissance.






41. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back






42. Mannerism painter






43. A presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (All is change).






44. Goddess of Marriage






45. Beuatiful with ornate borders






46. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers






47. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings






48. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'






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






50. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'