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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. 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.
flat
Athena/Minerva
Persian Rugs
Alfred Hitchcock
2. Beautiful Italian singing
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
bel canto
Mary McCarthy
tempura
3. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
Flying buttress
obelisk
scrim
Mozart and Richard Strauss
4. One of the first to use cubism - painted 'The Old Guitar Player' (1905) - predominantly painted in blue tones
Brussels tapestries
Bolero
bel canto
Pablo Picasso
5. Long-Long
Spondaic Pattern
Joseph Conrad
Pentatonic Scale
Manichaeism
6. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Alfred Hitchcock
louise nevelson
Stephen Crane
flat
7. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).
Jonathan Swift
Socrates
Mary Shelley
Augustine Age
8. Science fiction writer
Personification
Alfred Hitchcock
ballet
Issac Asimov
9. The language used to represent things - actions - or ideas - in a descriptive manner. Example: the brook - babbling and bubbling around rocks and stones.
Imagery
minuetto
Mary McCarthy
Atomism
10. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
Andrew Wyeth
Vermeer
Renaissance
Greek Corinthian
11. Both wrote music based on Don Juan
Martha Graham
Langston Hughes
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Stoicism
12. Fast
Impressionistic Art came before
allegro
El Greco
E.E. Cummings
13. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
Stravinsky
Jonathan Swift
Pythagoras
14. Long-Short-Short
Claude Monet
Dactylic
Mies van der Rohe
Bayeux tapestry
15. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Henrik Ibsen
Dionysus/Bacchus
Aristotle
Andre Previn
16. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Eisenstein
Ballet
Salvador Dali
Imagery
17. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
Vincent van Gogh
Vaishyas
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
James Boswell
18. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Henrik Ibsen
Henri Matisse
Socrates
Da Vinci
19. 'Father of Western Philosophy'. Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water.
Thales
pieta
flying buttress
Andrea Palladio
20. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
Andrew Wyeth
neo-classic period
aside
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
21. The use of an object to represent another object or idea.
Symbolism
Charles Dickens
Noh Theatre
Chalice
22. Architect who like a statue at every corner
Pearl Buck
Dante Aligheri
Greek Corinthian
Andrea Palladio
23. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Greek Ionic
Eisenstein
Daniel Defoe
Gilbert Stuart
24. Short-Short-Long
Pavane and the Polonaise
scrim
Anapestic Pattern
Francesco Petrarch
25. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Gilbert Stuart
William Shakespeare
Penny Marshall
Eros/Cupid
26. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Aristotle
Vincent van Gogh
Peter Paul Rubens
Thomas Hobbes
27. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'
Tchaikovsky
Issac Asimov
Botticelli
French female pose
28. Rebirth
Remington
renaissance
Salvador Dali
Twelve Tone System
29. Architect; Guggenheim museum Spain branch; see figure 14.19 on page 366
Frank Gehry 1929
Geoffrey Chaucer
Tragic figure
Edvard Greig
30. Science fiction writer
Issac Asimov
Georg W. F. Hegel
George Sand
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
31. 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
Niccolo Machiavelli
Othello
Simone De Beauvoir
Taoism
32. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Le Corbusier
barbara hepworth
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Noh Theatre
33. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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34. 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.
Josiah Wedgewood
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
Federico Fellini
cellini
35. Goddess of Hunting
Rene Descartes
James Boswell
Shudras
Artemis/Diana
36. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Gilbert and Sullivan
Joseph Conrad
Henri Matisse
Samuel Beckett
37. Stoics believed that restraining emotion is the key to happiness. The majority of their beliefs are similar to the Cynics.
Arthur Miller
Samuel Beckett
IM Pei
Stoicism
38. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Edvard Greig
Simone De Beauvoir
Antonio Gaudi
Leo Tolstoy
39. One of first artists to break away from Italio-Byzantine style - Giotto's teacher - Duccio's 'Virgin in Majesty'
New Orleans
Didactic-ism
Johannes Brahms
Cimabue
40. A style of art in the mid to late 16th century that permitted artists to express their own 'manner' or feelings in contrast to the symmetry and simplicity of the art of the High Renaissance.
Mosaic
Dada school
mannerism
Al Jolson
41. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Scrim
High Renaissance
Hector Berlioz
Josiah Wedgewood
42. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
John Locke
tempura
George Sand
Heraclitus
43. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.
louise nevelson
Meter
neo-classic period
Langston Hughes
44. Spanish artist color plate 82-The Persistence of Memroy; best known and most sensational of the Surrealists.
Victor Hugo
Alfred Hitchcock
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Picasso
45. Spanish surrealist painter
Joan Miro
Simile
Stephen Foster
Monet
46. The Italian sculptor and goldsmith who was best known for the doors to the baptistery of Florence's cathedral - and another set of doors which was called 'The Gates to Paradise'. He also wrote one of the earliest autobiographies by an artist - which
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Henry Dixon Cowell
Ghiberti
pop art
47. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
Picasso
Hagia Sophia
oratorio
Rembrandt
48. Consists of lines that do not have regular meter or rhyme
Jules Verne
Free Verse
Tyche/Fortuna
Christopher Marlowe
49. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Lorraine Hansberry
E.E. Cummings
alexander calder
Seurat
50. 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
Giotto
Martin Heidegger
Mary Shelley
Henri Matisse
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