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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. 698-721. hiberno-saxon. mix of christian imagery & northern animal interlace style. classical style: curtain
Lindisfarne Gospel
Marc Chagall
Langston Hughes
Heraclitus
2. God of the Sun - poetry - music and oracles
Penny Marshall
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Phoebus/Apollo
minuetto
3. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Athena/Minerva
obelisk
Francois Rabelais
Issac Asimov
4. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
French female pose
chalice
Aubrey Beardsley
Antonio Gaudi
5. Perfected literary conversation and introduced everyday speech to theater
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Aaron Copeland
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Romanesque Style
6. Long-Long
Augustine Age
Zeno
Charles Dickens
Spondaic Pattern
7. 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
reliquary
Abstraction
Eugene Delacroix
Cynics
8. Painted 'The Bathers'
Renoir
mannerism
Jean Fragonard
Henrik Ibsen
9. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
Vincent van Gogh
Aphrodite/Venus
pieta
El Greco
10. Made a valuable contribution to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves. 'Camptown Races'
Andrea Palladio
Alfred Hitchcock
Stephen Foster
multi-media
11. Both wrote music based on Don Juan
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Henry Dixon Cowell
Ray Bradbury
allegro
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
Romanesque Style
Eisenstein
Pilgrim's Progress
Joseph Conrad
13. Literature whose primary aim is to expound some moral - political - or other teaching.
Lao Tzu
Ernest Hemingway
Samuel Beckett
Didactic-ism
14. School of nonsense and anti-art
ballet
Picasso
gothic age architecture
dada school
15. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
John Dryden
alexander calder
Cubism
Vermeer
16. 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.
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
William Faulkner
Handel
Pallas Athena/Minerva
17. French impressionistic; studied in Italy; became famous in his lifetime (see page 290). Structural form from the Romantics. By The SeaShore
Al Jolson
Merchant of Venice
Richard Sheridan
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
18. The creator of the twelve-tone system of atonal music.
Arnold Schoenberg
Frank Lloyd Wright
Versailles
oratorio
19. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
chalice
flying buttress
Bronte Sisters
Trompe l'oeil
20. The basis for early Christian architecture; - created in the period of recognition - it had a dome shape at both ends similar to an apse - it had libaries - and it's official meaning was a meeting place in which the romans would meet to discuss thin
ballet
Roman Basilica
Thomas Gainsborough
Leo Tolstoy
21. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Henrik Ibsen
Federico Fellini
Bronte Sisters
Bayeux tapestry
22. Architect who like a statue at every corner
Ray Bradbury
D.W. Griffith
Andrea Palladio
T.S. Eliot
23. Popular in the 1920s and 30s - art deco work contains geometric three-dimensional forms and curvy surfaces. Subjects are typically men and women from high society jazz age.
louise nevelson
Art Deco Movement
Georgia O'Keeffe
Alexander Dumas
24. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Rembrandt
Moral Philosophers
Arthur Miller
Martha Graham
25. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Mary McCarthy
Barcelona Pavilion
Remington
Pieta
26. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Neoplatonism
Delacroix
multi-media
Charles Dickens
27. Rebirth
Aubrey Beardsley
Rembrandt
Renaissance
Henry Dixon Cowell
28. Composer - conductor and pianist
Bolero
Maia/Fauna
William Shakespeare
Andre Previn
29. Considered to have founded modern European literature; perfected rhyme in threes - Divine Comedy
Dante Aligheri
T.S. Eliot
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Pyrrhic Pattern
30. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
chalice
Friedrich Nietzsche
Brunelleschi
Niccolo Machiavelli
31. School of nonsense and anti-art
Symbolism
Salvador Dali
Dada school
Merchant of Venice
32. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Jean Fragonard
Verdi and Puccini
Atomists
Stephen Crane
33. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Aaron Copeland
allegro
Tragic Playwrights
Andrea Palladio
34. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience
Monet
soliloquy
Renoir
Charles Dickens
35. The works of ancient Greece and Rome; Homer - Sophocles - and Aeschylus. Major philosophers included Socrates - Plato - and Aristotle. Aristotle's Poetics described the art of tragedy; Socrates set down the foundation for a humanist philosophy later
The Pigeon House
Reliquary
Classical Period
Simone De Beauvoir
36. Architect who like a statue at every corner
Martin Heidegger
Andrea Palladio
Aphrodite/Venus
Thomas Hobbes
37. God of Time - Harvest and Agriculture
Kronos/Saturn
Penny Marshall
renaissance
T.S. Eliot
38. Spanish surrealist painter
Henrik Ibsen
A short syllable
Pearl Buck
Salvador Dali
39. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
mannerism
Socrates
George Sand
Serge Diaghilev
40. 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
Merchant of Venice
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Hellenistic Period
Alfred Hitchcock
41. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
Mary McCarthy
James Boswell
Herman Melville
pieta
42. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
Mary Wollstonecraft
Andrea Palladio
multi-media
Leonardo da Vinci
43. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Peter Paul Rubens
D.W. Griffith
oratorio
Atomists
44. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
Henrik Ibsen
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
Chopin
45. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Martha Graham
Thales
Gilbert Stuart
Aaron Copeland
46. The repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry
Picasso
James Boswell
Stephen Foster
Meter
47. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Alliteration
Alexander Dumas
Kronos/Saturn
Martha Graham
48. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Picasso
The Parthenon
Lao Tzu
Lionel Hampton
49. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail
Mark Twain
henry moore
Blank Verse
Stravinsky
50. Spanish artist color plate 82-The Persistence of Memroy; best known and most sensational of the Surrealists.
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Shudras
Brussels tapestries
mannerism