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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.






2. Composed 'Rite of Spring'






3. God of the Underworld and Death






4. God of the underworld - and wealth






5. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'






6. Perfected literary conversation and introduced everyday speech to theater






7. A presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (All is change).






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






9. One unit of meter in poetry






10. Pre-Socrates






11. Artist of 'Jack in the Pulpit IV' (1930) - 'Petunia' (1925) - 'Cow's Skull - Red - White - and Blue' (1931) - and 'Red Amaryllis' (1937) - Realistic nature images with strong - vibrant colors identify the works of O'Keeffe

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12. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'






13. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery






14. Is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin - containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables.






15. Court dances






16. American novelist - essayist and satirist - Huckleberry Finn - Tom Sawyer






17. A musical composition for voices and orchestra






18. The idea that matter is made out of atoms






19. Death of a Salesman






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






21. The farmer/ merchant caste in Hinduism






22. Played the xylophone and marimba






23. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies






24. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral






25. 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






26. A musical composition for voices and orchestra






27. God of Wine






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






29. 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.






30. French impressionist painter






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






32. 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






33. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)






34. Author of the first real historical drama and first English tragedy - The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus - Edward the Second






35. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music






36. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo






37. An epic is a longer poem written in lofty style - presenting characters of high social class in a series of adventures. It is tied to one hero of epic proportions - yet the entire poem details the history of a nation or race. Example: the Odyssey and






38. DNA of the song






39. Spanish Romantic Painter - Disaster of war series - Third Day of May - Rembrandt influence - moral issues - court painter to Charles IV






40. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)






41. A story were characters or objects represent abstract idea or qualities. i.e. Goodness - Evil - Love - Death - etc...






42. Real name was Domenicos Theotocopoulos - Much of his work expressed religious ecstasy - and El Greco painted many revealing works of devoted ascetics - most notable of which was Burial of the Count Orgaz. An expressionist - his work often included fl






43. Euripidedes - Aeschylus - and Sophodes






44. Court dances






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






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






47. 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.






48. Five-foot line






49. Wrote 'Being and Time'. nfluenced by the work of Edmund Husserl and considered a founding father of existentialism - Heidegger ultimately rejected both associations. Instead - he focused simply on 'being' and examining human moods and experiences. He






50. Leucippus and Democritus