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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
Persian Rugs
sculpture
Federico Fellini
Tempura
2. His works provided the basis for love poetry and popularized the theme of humanism - The Cazoniere
tragic figure
allegro
Francesco Petrarch
James Joyce
3. Part of the Counter Reformation. Displayed a religious theme - red and gold color scheme - dark (sinner) vs. light (saint) - and was intensely dramatic. Early Baroque art was dominated by Spain.
Bronte Sisters
Baroque art
Hector Berlioz
Frank Lloyd Wright
4. One of first artists to break away from Italio-Byzantine style - Giotto's teacher - Duccio's 'Virgin in Majesty'
Anapestic Pattern
Cimabue
Brahmans
pop art
5. What type of column has scrolls - and is taller?
Ares/Mars
Samuel Beckett
Degas
Greek Ionic
6. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Ares/Mars
Henrik Ibsen
Lillian Gish
Jackson Pollock
7. 19th century French syle of painting that tried to capture the painter's immediate impressions - usually of the outdoors. In music - a term associated witht the music of Debussy and Ravel
Corinthian
Delacroix
Impressionism
Thomas Edison
8. School of nonsense and anti-art
T.S. Eliot
Dimeter
King Lear
dada school
9. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Henri Matisse
Da Vinci
Remington
Versailles
10. 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
gothic age architecture
Georg W. F. Hegel
Hermes/Mercury
Francois Rabelais
11. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Plato
scrim
minuetto
bust
12. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.
Mies van der Rohe
Samuel Beckett
Medieval Architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright
13. French landscape painter - artist of 'Dusk' (1908) - considered to be one of the founders of impressionism
Claude Monet
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Andrea Palladio
Penny Marshall
14. One of the first to use cubism - painted 'The Old Guitar Player' (1905) - predominantly painted in blue tones
Pablo Picasso
Mies van der Rohe
Imagery
Langston Hughes
15. 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.
A long syllable
Mies van der Rohe
Greek Doric
D.W. Griffith
16. Found on Easter Island - The South Pacific
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Moai
Othello
Surrealism
17. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Jules Verne
Mies van der Rohe
andante
Josiah Wedgewood
18. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Brahmans
Delacroix
James Joyce
John Dryden
19. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Hamlet
Christopher Wren
Plato
Herman Melville
20. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Ray Bradbury
Aristotle
Al Jolson
T.S. Eliot
21. The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning. i.e. hiss - hiss - buzz - buzz.
Foot
Plato
Eugene O'Neil
Onomatopoeia
22. 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
Alliteration
Peter Paul Rubens
Issac Asimov
23. The farmer/ merchant caste in Hinduism
Victor Hugo
Josiah Wedgewood
American Indian Rugs
Vaishyas
24. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Joseph Conrad
Alfred Hitchcock
Manichaeism
Peter Paul Rubens
25. Members of the highest caste in Hinduism
Penny Marshall
Brahmans
George Sand
Degas
26. Artist of 'The Starry Night' (1889) - also painted 'Sunflowers' and 'Night Cafe'
The Pigeon House
Lionel Hampton
Vincent van Gogh
Spondaic Pattern
27. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.
tragic figure
Popular Transcendentalists
Alexander Dumas
Frank Lloyd Wright
28. Austrian composer; leader of the 2nd Viennese school: Invented serialism same as 12 tone system; wrote Pierrot Lunaire Landmark piece of music moonstruck Pierrot.
Satire
The Panthenon
Sitar
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
29. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Simone Martini
Pearl Buck
Masaccio
Arthur Miller
30. The repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry
Taoism
Meter
Chartres Cathedral
Le Corbusier
31. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
Al Jolson
Langston Hughes
tragic figure
Mark Twain
32. French 20th century architect
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
bust
Simone Martini
Le Corbusier
33. Leucippus and Democritus
Charles Dickens
Atomists
Socrates
Victor Hugo
34. 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.
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Charles Dickens
Raphael
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
35. Ancient Greek philosopher - wrote Republic and Symposium - credited with being the most influential force on Western philosophy of all time. He taught the likes of Aristotle - and expressed his philosophical beliefs largely through fictional dialogue
Blank Verse
Plato
Flying buttress
Obelisk
36. Architect; Guggenheim museum Spain branch; see figure 14.19 on page 366
Cynics
Hagia Sophia
Frank Gehry 1929
Rene Descartes
37. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
chalice
Jonathan Swift
Manhattan Project
aside
38. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot
Stravinsky
Rococo
Pilgrim's Progress
39. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.
Geoffrey Chaucer
michelangelo
Mies van der Rohe
Francesco Petrarch
40. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Victor Hugo
pieta
Existentialism
Edmund Spenser
41. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
Cimabue
bust
obelisk
Chartres Cathedral
42. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Federico Fellini
Alfred Hitchcock
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
reliquary
43. Painted 'Annunciation' - Annunciation - Siena Cathedral - Italy - international gothic - (Early 14th)
Donatello
Allegory
Simone Martini
Celtic Art
44. Pre-Socrates
tempura
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Henrik Ibsen
Thales
45. Composed 'Rite of Spring'
Stravinsky
madrigal
Mary Shelley
Twelve Tone System
46. Six-foot line
tragic figure
Personification
Jackson Pollock
Hexameter
47. Spanish surrealist painter
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
aside
Salvador Dali
Mary McCarthy
48. 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.
Bayeux tapestry
Andrew Wyeth
Rembrandt
Eugene Delacroix
49. Japanese Artist - Thirty six view of Mt. Fuji - most famous Japanese mountain
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
neo-classic period
Barcelona Pavilion
Phoebus/Apollo
50. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Arnold Schoenberg
Hector Berlioz
Niccolo Machiavelli
french female pose