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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
The Pigeon House
Chalice
Salvador Dali
Mary Wollstonecraft
2. Famous artists during this time: Leonardo da Vinci - Rafael - and Michaelangelo - From 1490 to 1520 - High Renaissance style was composed of order - grace - and harmony - with perfectly proportioned subjects.
High Renaissance
Honore de Balzac
Alfred Hitchcock
Trompe l'oeil
3. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Da Vinci
Aaron Copeland
Pieta
Henri Matisse
4. Author of the first real historical drama and first English tragedy - The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus - Edward the Second
Christopher Marlowe
Thales
William Shakespeare
The Parthenon
5. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Alfred Hitchcock
scrim
gothic age architecture
Andrew Wyeth
6. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
presto
Johannes Brahms
Renoir
Seurat
7. Spanish Romantic Painter - Disaster of war series - Third Day of May - Rembrandt influence - moral issues - court painter to Charles IV
Flat
Mary Shelley
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Daniel Defoe
8. 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
Giotto
Rembrandt
Arnold Schoenberg
Mary Wollstonecraft
9. 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.
ballet
Pearl Buck
mannerism
Langston Hughes
10. Found on Easter Island - The South Pacific
Merry Wives of Windsor
Alfred Hitchcock
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Moai
11. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Aubrey Beardsley
Didactic-ism
Phoebus/Apollo
Peter Paul Rubens
12. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Beethoven & Wagner
Eisenstein
Baroque art
13. Opaque watercolor
Claude Debussy
John Locke
Demeter/Ceres
gouche
14. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Picasso
Hera/Juno
Joseph Conrad
George Sand
15. Architectural style of medieval Europe - characterized by semi-circular arches - massive quality - thick walls - round arches - sturdy piers - groin vaults - large towers - decorative arcading. Crossed England from France.
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Antonio Gaudi
Kouroi
Romanesque Style
16. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Lorraine Hansberry
Allegory
John Locke
Masaccio
17. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz
Epicureans
New Orleans
Brussels tapestries
El Greco
18. 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.
Remington
Serialism
Aaron Copeland
barbara hepworth
19. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
James Joyce
Andrea Palladio
Niccolo Machiavelli
Pallas Athena/Minerva
20. 20th Century American composer
Henry Dixon Cowell
sculpture
Bronte Sisters
T.S. Eliot
21. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Guggenheim Museum
pop art
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Leo Tolstoy
22. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
Charles Dickens
Chopin
flying buttress
Usonian
23. The language used to represent things - actions - or ideas - in a descriptive manner. Example: the brook - babbling and bubbling around rocks and stones.
Da Vinci
Imagery
Gilbert Stuart
Flying buttresses
24. Fast
Greek Ionic
presto
Andre Previn
Dante Aligheri
25. Bessanio along with others are courting a girl - they have to pick a certain box - Bessanio picks the right one and is allowed to marry her
Jules Verne
Merchant of Venice
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Aristotle
26. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
neo-classic period
Andrew Wyeth
hagia sophia
Church of San Vitale
27. Made a valuable contribution to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves. 'Camptown Races'
Stephen Foster
Merry Wives of Windsor
tempura
Doric
28. Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style - Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style
Hera/Juno
Giotto
Athena/Minerva
Vincent van Gogh
29. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
Hermes/Mercury
Charles Dickens
pop art
Bayeux tapestry
30. The creator of the twelve-tone system of atonal music.
Dada school
Humanism
Arnold Schoenberg
flat
31. The text of the opera
Atomists
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
Vermeer
Libretto
32. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Leo Tolstoy
flat
Rhymed Verse
Romanticism Movement
33. Visual artist and poet who defined neoclassical convention - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Cxperience
Andrew Wyeth
William Blake
Vaishyas
Eros/Cupid
34. Mannerism painter
El Greco
flat
Jules Verne
Geoffrey Chaucer
35. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Spondaic Pattern
Eisenstein
Stephen Foster
Thomas Hobbes
36. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
Charles Dickens
oratorio
bust
Post and Lintel
37. Fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century
Rococo
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Mary Wollstonecraft
Victor Hugo
38. Goddess of Marriage
Mannerism
Mathew Brady
Salvador Dali
Hera/Juno
39. Both wrote music based on Don Juan
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Mary McCarthy
Victor Hugo
Aaron Copeland
40. Poetry that rhymes at the end of lines
James Joyce
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rhymed Verse
Hamlet
41. Artist of 'Purple Robe' (1937) - 'The Blue Nude' (1907) - 'The Piano Lesson' (1916) - and 'The Moorish Screen' (1921) - Known for his bold colors and thick - vibrant brushstrokes - pioneer in the modernist movement
Hamlet
Stoicism
Henri Matisse
Federico Fellini
42. Chiefly responsible for bringing literature to the middle-class - The Canterbury Tales
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Giotto
Kronos/Saturn
Geoffrey Chaucer
43. 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
Noh Theatre
Seurat
Tchaikovsky
cellini
44. Music consistently constructed on a pattern of the twelve chromatic tones selected prior to composition.
Twelve Tone System
Tchaikovsky
Andrew Wyeth
Herman Melville
45. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.
Simone De Beauvoir
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Plato
michelangelo
46. Short-Short
Pyrrhic Pattern
Vincent van Gogh
Thales
Arthur Miller
47. A capella singers
ballet
Dactylic
madrigal
Vermeer
48. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
flat
Martin Heidegger
Alexander Dumas
constantin brancusi
49. French Post-impressionistic painter; moved to Tahiti to look for the unspoiled life. Mahana No Atua(Day of the Gods). He used flat - 2 dimensional surfaces with strong outlines.
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
Immanuel Kant
ballet
pieta
50. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
Ballet
Epic
Marc Chagall
Edmund Spenser