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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Stephen Crane
Da Vinci
Andrew Wyeth
Phoebus/Apollo
2. Opaque watercolor
Rene Descartes
Niccolo Machiavelli
gouche
Pallas Athena/Minerva
3. His works provided the basis for love poetry and popularized the theme of humanism - The Cazoniere
Medieval Architecture
Francesco Petrarch
Ionic
Mies van der Rohe
4. Famous artists: Henri Matisse - Raoul Dufy - and Andre Derain - Lasting for three short years (1905-1908) - fauvism served as the foundation for much of subsequent twentieth-century art. Its work was full of vibrant colors and boldly distorted figure
Serge Diaghilev
Salvador Dali
Mary McCarthy
Fauvism
5. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
Salvador Dali
Alexander Dumas
Le Corbusier
Vermeer
6. School of nonsense and anti-art
Christopher Wren
Hans-Georg Gadamer
dada school
Niccolo Machiavelli
7. 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
Hagia Sophia
Gilbert Stuart
Jonathan Swift
Mary Wollstonecraft
8. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Giotto
Charles Dickens
Gothic age architecture
El Greco
9. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
neo-classic period
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Henry Dixon Cowell
Macbeth
10. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Le Corbusier
Degas
Popular Transcendentalists
Lillian Gish
11. Spanish artist color plate 82-The Persistence of Memroy; best known and most sensational of the Surrealists.
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Picasso
Alice Walker
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
12. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Mark Twain
Paleolithic
Edmund Spenser
Giotto
13. Principally known for novels of manners and middle class English society - Sense and Sensibility - Pride and Prejudice
Aristotle
Jane Austen
Verdi and Puccini
Fresco
14. Considered to have founded modern European literature; perfected rhyme in threes - Divine Comedy
Dante Aligheri
Lionel Hampton
Stephen Crane
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
15. The Color Purple
Whole Tone Scale
E.E. Cummings
Eisenstein
Alice Walker
16. Alexander the Great's tutor and a student of Plato - He disagreed with Plato that form and matter could be perceived as two separate things - and wrote such works as Rhetoric - Poetics - and Metaphysics.
Aristotle
William Shakespeare
Niccolo Machiavelli
Francois Rabelais
17. 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
Impressionism
Hector Berlioz
Greek Doric
D.W. Griffith
18. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
Vermeer
Mary Wollstonecraft
michelangelo
Gilbert and Sullivan
19. artist of Return of the Prodigal Son (1636) - Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (1632) - Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer (1653) - and The Night Watch - Showed a particular interest in painting the poor and downtrodden - considered the best Dutch
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
French female pose
Joan Miro
tragic figure
20. Is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin - containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables.
Mary Shelley
Book of Kells
King Lear
Da Vinci
21. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Brussels tapestries
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Edmund Spenser
Picasso
22. God of Fire - the Forge and Blacksmiths
Bayeux tapestry
Bronte Sisters
Aubrey Beardsley
Hephaestus/Vulcan
23. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Joan Miro
Victor Hugo
Aubrey Beardsley
Arnold Schoenberg
24. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
El Greco
chalice
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Hades/Pluto
25. Famous French impressionist composer
Simone Martini
Salvador Dali
Jean Fragonard
Claude Debussy
26. Gods of Inspiration for literature - Science - and the arts
El Greco
Hagia Sophia
The Muses
Socrates
27. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Lorraine Hansberry
Cervantes
Jonathan Swift
Classical Period
28. 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.
Vermeer
D.W. Griffith
dada school
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
29. God of Time - Harvest and Agriculture
Satire
Kronos/Saturn
Serge Diaghilev
bel canto
30. God of the Underworld and Death
Lionel Hampton
Martha Graham
Hades/Pluto
The Iliad
31. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Josiah Wedgewood
Jane Austen
Chalice
32. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Leo Tolstoy
Langston Hughes
Brunelleschi
Tempura
33. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
El Greco
Donatello
T.S. Eliot
George Sand
34. Mannerism painter
Imagery
Foot
El Greco
The Pigeon House
35. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
soliloquy
Degas
Trimeter
Friedrich Nietzsche
36. British team writing light-hearted song/story format; Opereta - 'Pirates of Penzance' and Mikado
Trimeter
Salvador Dali
Gilbert and Sullivan
Merry Wives of Windsor
37. Wrote operas
Verdi and Puccini
Surrealism
Christopher Wren
Remington
38. Art produced from c. 450 BC to c. 700 AD by the Celts; mostly portable objects; Stone carvings - Crosses with interlace patterns - metal work - manuscripts
Remington
Celtic Art
Jules Verne
Book of Kells
39. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Libretto
oratorio
Mark Twain
40. 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.
William Faulkner
flying buttress
William Shakespeare
Mary Shelley
41. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Henrik Ibsen
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Mary Shelley
Serge Diaghilev
42. DNA of the song
Andrew Wyeth
Pentatonic Scale
Aaron Copeland
Serge Diaghilev
43. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
soliloquy
Henrik Ibsen
Hera/Juno
44. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
Joan Miro
michelangelo
Peter Paul Rubens
multi-media
45. Story of a Great battle between Greece and Troy
The Iliad
Socrates
Joseph Conrad
Chalice
46. One of the first to use cubism - painted 'The Old Guitar Player' (1905) - predominantly painted in blue tones
The Parthenon
Thomas Hobbes
Pablo Picasso
Heraclitus
47. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
barbara hepworth
Remington
William Shakespeare
The Muses
48. Movement in Church design towards theme of 'Christ - the Light of the World' - Gothic structure (reflected God's transcendence - power - and beauty). Built higher - allowed large stain glass windows. Served as visual catechism for those living during
Othello
Andre Previn
Medieval Architecture
Islam
49. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Lorraine Hansberry
Eugene O'Neil
William Blake
Neo-classic period
50. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Martha Graham
Lillian Gish
Chopin
Aubrey Beardsley