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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. Possibly the most famous English satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal - Swift (1667 - 1745) was a clergyman and Irishman - which often made hilarious impact in his writings (such as A Tale of a Tub and the aforementioned Mo






2. The farmer/ merchant caste in Hinduism






3. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington






4. Wrote Waiting for Godot. The only scenery for the play was a cyclorama (a giant curtain onthe back of the stage) and a single tree with one branch and one leaf.






5. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson






6. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)






7. Considered to have founded modern European literature; perfected rhyme in threes - Divine Comedy






8. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'






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






10. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India






11. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson






12. A style characteristic of seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe - subjects of portraits expanded beyond religious figures to nature and ordinary individuals. Many paintings incorporated long hallways and views through windows or doorways.






13. External support for the walls of Gothic buildings was provided by what?






14. An arrangement of colored tiles to form a decorative surface.






15. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses






16. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk






17. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn






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






19. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863






20. Slow






21. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas






22. Author of The Red Badge of Courage






23. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)






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






25. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail






26. Action painting - put his canvas on the floor and brought his whole body into action while he splashed and dripped colors in swirling configurations






27. Both wrote music based on Don Juan






28. French female author of more than eighty novels who took a man's name and dressed in male attire to protest the treatment of women






29. A radically unconventional group formed by Antisthenes in Greece in 400 A.D. This group considered virtue to be the only - not just the highest - good. They were largely self-sufficient - celibate (abstaining from sexual intercourse) - and ascetic (r






30. Decorative drinking cup or goblet






31. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.






32. Famous for black and white erotic paintings






33. Composed 'Rite of Spring'






34. What type of Column is decorated with flowers?






35. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction






36. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.






37. God of Marriage






38. Transitional movement in the 1880's connecting Impressionism and cubism in the visual arts






39. Science fiction writer






40. Architect; Guggenheim museum Spain branch; see figure 14.19 on page 366






41. Italian painter - engineer - musician - and scientist. The most versatile genius of the Renaissance - filled notebooks with engineering and scientific observations that were in some cases centuries ahead of their time. As a painter he is best known f






42. Short-Long






43. A capella singers






44. Late 20th century style in which brief patter is textures - and other musical fragments are repeated for an extended period of time with trance-like persistence.






45. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters






46. Repititions of geometric lines






47. Both describes the Chinese manner of thought - and a major Chinese religion - Largely adopted from Buddhism - Taoism incorporates many gods - the head of which is the Jade Emperor - with the Emperor of the Eastern Mountain serving as second-in-comman






48. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century






49. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.






50. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall






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