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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. 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.






2. Famous for black and white erotic paintings






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






4. Rebirth






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






6. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses






7. Famous for black and white erotic paintings






8. This building was built in Rome and contains remains of may Roman Emperors






9. Visual artist and poet who defined neoclassical convention - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Cxperience






10. Artist of 'Purple Robe' (1937) - 'The Blue Nude' (1907) - 'The Piano Lesson' (1916) - and 'The Moorish Screen' (1921) - Known for his bold colors and thick - vibrant brushstrokes - pioneer in the modernist movement






11. Atomic Bomb - Robert Openheimer was in charge






12. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship






13. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers






14. One of first artists to break away from Italio-Byzantine style - Giotto's teacher - Duccio's 'Virgin in Majesty'






15. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed






16. Knowm for lean prose and ardently masculine themes and characters - The Old Man and the Sea - a Farewell to Arms - the Sun Also Rises






17. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people






18. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance






19. Beuatiful with ornate borders






20. A capella singers






21. 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.






22. 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






23. 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






24. 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






25. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed






26. Influential in establishing the heroic couplet - Alexander's Feast - heroic stanzas






27. Figure of speech that give human traits to animals - objects - or ideas. Example: the storm lashed the naked - helpless shore.






28. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons






29. Goddess of Fortune






30. God of Time - Harvest and Agriculture






31. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses






32. 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






33. French Post-impressionistic painter; moved to Tahiti to look for the unspoiled life. Mahana No Atua(Day of the Gods). He used flat - 2 dimensional surfaces with strong outlines.






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






35. School of nonsense and anti-art






36. An Italian painter - sculptor - and architect of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Among many achievements in a life of nearly ninety years - sculpted the David and several versions of the Pieta - painted the ceiling and rear wall of the Sistine






37. Beautiful Italian singing






38. Music consistently constructed on a pattern of the twelve chromatic tones selected prior to composition.






39. The most slender and ornate of the three Greek columns. Known for its decorative capital of delicately carved acanthus leaves.






40. Spanish artist color plate 82-The Persistence of Memroy; best known and most sensational of the Surrealists.






41. Goddess of Animals






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






43. Known for non-traditional forms of poetry - Tulips and Shimneys






44. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting






45. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India






46. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'






47. Pre-Socrates






48. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).






49. Eight-foot line






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