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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.
Pentatonic Scale
french female pose
louise nevelson
Corinthian
2. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Penny Marshall
William Shakespeare
Vincent van Gogh
Pallas Athena/Minerva
3. Florentine genius of the early Renaissance built the dome of Florence Cathedral - the Pazzi Chapel - and was instrumental in developing geometrical perspective in painting
Brunelleschi
Sitar
Mary Shelley
Rhymed Verse
4. One unit of meter in poetry
Foot
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Edmund Spenser
Scott Joplin
5. Impressionistic Music
Charles Dickens
Impressionistic Art came before
Bronte Sisters
Eros/Cupid
6. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
Hera/Juno
Octometer
Socrates
Neo-classic period
7. Free-standing statues of nude male youths
Heptameter
Jean Fragonard
Christopher Wren
Kouroi
8. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Johannes Brahms
Immanuel Kant
Merry Wives of Windsor
Minimalist Music
9. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Hector Berlioz
Vaishyas
Pilgrim's Progress
Josiah Wedgewood
10. God of the Sea
reliquary
Poseidon/Neptune
Doric
Socrates
11. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Socrates
Giotto
Ernest Hemingway
Imagery
12. Science fiction writer
Francois Rabelais
Hector Berlioz
Serialism
Issac Asimov
13. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
henry moore
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Mathew Brady
Degas
14. Six tone octave scale in which all successive tones are a whole step apart.
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
oratorio
Whole Tone Scale
Mies van der Rohe
15. French Painter - Post impressionism - pointellism (using several small dots of color to create a larger image)Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte
Parmenides
tragic figure
Tyche/Fortuna
Seurat
16. Composer - conductor and pianist
Langston Hughes
Rembrandt
Federico Fellini
Andre Previn
17. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
Mary Wollstonecraft
Immanuel Kant
Guggenheim Museum
alexander calder
18. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Christopher Wren
gothic age architecture
Hamlet
American Indian Rugs
19. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Honore de Balzac
Roman Basilica
hagia sophia
Mary Wollstonecraft
20. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Pearl Buck
Ares/Mars
ballet
flying buttress
21. An arrangement of colored tiles to form a decorative surface.
Mosaic
Brahmans
dada school
Federico Fellini
22. Three dimensional work of art - statue
Martha Graham
Lorraine Hansberry
Daniel Defoe
sculpture
23. Laborer caste in Hinduism
Shudras
Monet
Jane Austen
bel canto
24. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Greek Corinthian
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Popular Transcendentalists
Jonathan Swift
25. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Georgia O'Keefe
Ballet
Thomas Edison
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
26. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Degas
constantin brancusi
ballet
soliloquy
27. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
The Muses
E.E. Cummings
Charles Dickens
Eugene O'Neil
28. Frank Lloyd Wright developed the ___________ housing design - a take-off on his earlier prairie houses - in response to the vast demand for low income housing.
Usonian
Charles Dickens
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Flat
29. Long-Short-Short
Artemis/Diana
Dactylic
Lao Tzu
Hades/Pluto
30. Wrote Two Treatises on Government - also published An Essay Concerning Human Understanding to outline the principles of empiricism.
Christopher Wren
Jane Austen
aside
John Locke
31. Wrote Rivals
Richard Sheridan
Beethoven & Wagner
Baroque Period
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
32. A term that was originally coined during the Renaissance - it was a belief that man was the center of the universe. Humanism in general is a philosophy that centers around the capabilities of man.
louise nevelson
Humanism
sculpture
Brahmans
33. God of Wine and Theatre
Henry Dixon Cowell
New Orleans
Dionysus/Bacchus
Peter Paul Rubens
34. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Eisenstein
Vincent van Gogh
Paleolithic
Serge Diaghilev
35. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Renoir
Issac Asimov
Kshatriyas
Mies van der Rohe
36. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Serge Diaghilev
Pentatonic Scale
Octometer
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
37. 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
Mary Wollstonecraft
Abstraction
Cerros
Maia/Fauna
38. French Impressionistic music composer; won the Prix de Rome (award given by the French government) Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun; LaMer
Alfred Hitchcock
Johannes Brahms
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Trimeter
39. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Mies van der Rohe
Rembrandt
F. Scott Fitzgerald
El Greco
40. 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
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
John Dryden
Martin Heidegger
George Sand
41. High quality rugs made by Persian Muslims - valued for their exquisite designs - vivid colors and skillful make. These rugs were in great demand from China to Europe - greatly improving the Abbasid's economy.
Zeno
Seurat
Thales
Persian Rugs
42. American transcendentalist - Moby Dick - Bill Budd
French Romantic painter
William Faulkner
Herman Melville
E.E. Cummings
43. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Shudras
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
Lillian Gish
Satire
44. God of War
Mies van der Rohe
Andrea Palladio
Ares/Mars
Brussels tapestries
45. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Alfred Hitchcock
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Mary McCarthy
Romanticism Movement
46. Romantic novelist whose liberal social and political views underscore her work - Frankenstein - the Last Man
Mary Shelley
Pavane and the Polonaise
constantin brancusi
Kronos/Saturn
47. One-foot line
Tempura
Foot
Monometer
Plato
48. Dutch post Impressionistic painter 'Starry Night' color plate 72; moved to France;committed suicide
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Dionysus/Bacchus
Serialism
Remington
49. British team writing light-hearted song/story format; Opereta - 'Pirates of Penzance' and Mikado
Byzantine Style
Gilbert and Sullivan
Shudras
Georgia O'Keeffe
50. The Mayans built their first temple in ____________.
Cerros
Donatello
ballet
Greek Ionic