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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. American composer; Appalachian Spring;Fanfare for teh common man; Hoe Down;Americana; 10 honorary doctrine
Seurat
Moai
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Da Vinci
2. French 20th century architect
tempura
Foot
Le Corbusier
Hermes/Mercury
3. Instead of dealing with recognizable imagery - abstract art focuses on colors and form.
Demeter/Ceres
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Bayeux tapestry
Abstraction
4. Opaque watercolor
Johannes Brahms
Gouche
Immanuel Kant
Thomas Edison
5. Thucydides and Herodotus
Le Corbusier
Historians
Herman Melville
Classical Period
6. Frank Lloyd Wright developed the ___________ housing design - a take-off on his earlier prairie houses - in response to the vast demand for low income housing.
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Usonian
James Boswell
Monometer
7. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863
French Romantic painter
Hellenistic Period
Ares/Mars
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
8. Spanish surrealist painter
Phoebus/Apollo
Thomas Hobbes
Salvador Dali
Seurat
9. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
louise nevelson
Cervantes
Lorraine Hansberry
Lillian Gish
10. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
reliquary
Aaron Copeland
Penny Marshall
Epicureans
11. An imitation of the style identified with the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome. Usually associated with European art and literature from the mid-1600s through the eighteenth century.
Neoclassicism
Zeus/Jupiter
Pearl Buck
Pyrrhic Pattern
12. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
A short syllable
Chopin
Stephen Crane
Brussels tapestries
13. Twentieth-century novelist - used the stream-of-consciousness technique in his novel The Sound of Fury - whose intense drama is seen through the eyes of an idiot.
Jean Fragonard
Lorraine Hansberry
Zeno
William Faulkner
14. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
Parmenides
Vincent van Gogh
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Picasso
15. Goddess of Agriculture
Hades/Pluto
Demeter/Ceres
Arnold Schoenberg
Joseph Conrad
16. Fast
allegro
Pavane and the Polonaise
T.S. Eliot
Mannerism
17. 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
Langston Hughes
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Seurat
Atomists
18. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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19. 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
Socrates
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
20. Leucippus and Democritus
Reliquary
El Greco
Atomists
Remington
21. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Penny Marshall
Existentialism
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
22. 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.
Francois Rabelais
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Existentialism
hagia sophia
23. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
oratorio
Leo Tolstoy
bust
Lillian Gish
24. The farmer/ merchant caste in Hinduism
Bronte Sisters
Vaishyas
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Ionic
25. Rebirth
chalice
barbara hepworth
Peter Paul Rubens
renaissance
26. 6th Century B.C. - a Greek philosopher and mathematician - founder of a religous movement called Pythagoreanism
Pythagoras
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Cervantes
Serge Diaghilev
27. 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
Giotto
sculpture
Henrik Ibsen
Theme
28. Considered the greatest English poet and dramatist -Hamlet - King Lear - Macbeth - Romeo and Juliet - Twelfth Night - Richard III - Julius Caesar - Much Ado
Noh Theatre
Francois Rabelais
scrim
William Shakespeare
29. Designed by Mayans - this was once a temple - next to the Pyramid of Sacrifice. Located at Uxmal - it was used for sacrificial ceremonies as late as 1673.
Renaissance
Post and Lintel
Abstraction
The Pigeon House
30. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Atomists
Stephen Crane
Martha Graham
Aside
31. A contradiction of a story as it appears to its characters - and what the audience knows as true.
Lionel Hampton
Abstraction
Irony
minuetto
32. 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.
Frank Lloyd Wright
High Renaissance
Brussels tapestries
Stravinsky
33. Made a valuable contribution to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves. 'Camptown Races'
Atomism
Zeno
Gothic age architecture
Stephen Foster
34. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
Ghiberti
Heraclitus
Jane Austen
Honore de Balzac
35. The central or dominating idea of a work.
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Pyrrhic Pattern
Theme
Baroque Period
36. Goddess of Animals
Classical Period
James Boswell
Maia/Fauna
Alice Walker
37. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Cervantes
James Joyce
Jean Fragonard
Alfred Hitchcock
38. Any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material
flat
Transcendentalism
scrim
Minimalist Music
39. Impressionistic Music
Impressionistic Art came before
Henrik Ibsen
Soliloquy
Charles Dickens
40. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Joseph Conrad
Renoir
Eugene O'Neil
Eisenstein
41. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Picasso
Charles Dickens
Niccolo Machiavelli
Mathew Brady
42. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Niccolo Machiavelli
Josiah Wedgewood
Joseph Conrad
gothic age architecture
43. French Impressionistic music composer; won the Prix de Rome (award given by the French government) Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun; LaMer
Aaron Copeland
Marc Chagall
Stephen Crane
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
44. 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
John Locke
Seurat
Remington
Remington
45. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
reliquary
aside
Frank Gehry 1929
Rococo
46. Tall - 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point
obelisk
Ray Bradbury
Lionel Hampton
Ares/Mars
47. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land
Jonathan Swift
T.S. Eliot
Andre Previn
French Romantic painter
48. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Cynics
korai
Alfred Hitchcock
Pablo Picasso
49. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Richard Sheridan
Henry Dixon Cowell
Aubrey Beardsley
Socrates
50. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Da Vinci
Persian Rugs
Persian Rugs
Popular Transcendentalists