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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. What type of column has scrolls - and is taller?
King Lear
Henrik Ibsen
Greek Ionic
Moai
2. 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.
Henrik Ibsen
Neoclassicism
Art Deco Movement
Dionysus/Bacchus
3. Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato - the tutor of Alexander the Great - and the author of works on logic - metaphysics - ethics - natural sciences - politics - and poetics - he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system - whi
Martin Heidegger
Giotto
Andrew Wyeth
Aristotle
4. A tall - four-sided shaft of stone that rises to a pointed pyramidal top.
Arnold Schoenberg
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Obelisk
Simone De Beauvoir
5. 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).
Hexameter
Simone Martini
Heraclitus
Metaphor
6. Instead of dealing with recognizable imagery - abstract art focuses on colors and form.
Eugene O'Neil
Soliloquy
Cervantes
Abstraction
7. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Donatello
alexander calder
Renaissance Art
Eisenstein
8. Most famous American architect; Kaufman house also called 'Falling Water' Guggenheim museum - New York City Branch.
Neoplatonism
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Martha Graham
Hera/Juno
9. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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10. Found on Easter Island - The South Pacific
Serge Diaghilev
Moai
flying buttress
Buddhists
11. Chinese Painter; harp player in a pavillion
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
Picasso
Andrea Palladio
Pearl Buck
12. 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.
The Pigeon House
Niccolo Machiavelli
James Boswell
cellini
13. Style of art that attempts to portray the imagery of the subconscious mind
Surrealism
Christopher Wren
Hellenistic Period
Josiah Wedgewood
14. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
Mathew Brady
Tempura
alexander calder
Herman Melville
15. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Noh Theatre
Christopher Marlowe
sculpture
Meter
16. God of the Underworld and Death
Hades/Pluto
Joseph Conrad
oratorio
T.S. Eliot
17. Architect; Guggenheim museum Spain branch; see figure 14.19 on page 366
Imagery
Hamlet
Frank Gehry 1929
Scott Joplin
18. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
William Shakespeare
Henrik Ibsen
A short syllable
Free Verse
19. Wrote the first modern novel - Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Chopin
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
20. The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh
chalice
Eugene O'Neil
Poseidon/Neptune
21. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
henry moore
Maia/Fauna
Fresco
Heptameter
22. Six-foot line
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Hexameter
Neoclassicism
Greek Corinthian
23. Artist of 'Liberty Leading People' (1831) and 'The Massacre of Chios' (1824) - Known for his dramatic imagery
Eugene Delacroix
Alfred Hitchcock
Metaphor
Jane Austen
24. Spanish Romantic Painter - Disaster of war series - Third Day of May - Rembrandt influence - moral issues - court painter to Charles IV
Marc Chagall
Byzantine Style
Mary Shelley
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
25. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
King Lear
pieta
Paleolithic
Edmund Spenser
26. God of Wildlife
Hagia Sophia
Seurat
Artemis/Diana
Edmund Spenser
27. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Tyche/Fortuna
Remington
gothic age architecture
Herman Melville
28. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Bayeux tapestry
Stephen Crane
Pablo Picasso
Tetrameter
29. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Da Vinci
Brussels tapestries
Macbeth
Ray Bradbury
30. An arrangement of colored tiles to form a decorative surface.
Victor Hugo
Art Deco Movement
Thomas Gainsborough
Mosaic
31. Principally known for novels of manners and middle class English society - Sense and Sensibility - Pride and Prejudice
sitar
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Jane Austen
Jean Jacques Rousseau
32. Published Phenomenology of Mind in 1807 and Philosophy of Right in 1821 - According to the Hegelian dialectic - one thought (i.e. being) invariably leads to a thought of its antithesis (not being) - and the two must come together to form an entirely
Ballet
Georg W. F. Hegel
Jonathan Swift
Jane Austen
33. Chiefly responsible for bringing literature to the middle-class - The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
Aristotle
Andrew Wyeth
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
34. 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.
Socrates
Samuel Beckett
Noh Theatre
Giotto
35. 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.
mannerism
Allegory
Andrea Palladio
Donatello
36. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
ballet
Kshatriyas
A short syllable
Salvador Dali
37. Famous French impressionist composer
Claude Debussy
Tchaikovsky
Reliquary
Mark Twain
38. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Neoclassicism
alexander calder
39. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
aside
Al Jolson
Gilbert and Sullivan
Mozart and Richard Strauss
40. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
Onomatopoeia
Atomism
Herman Melville
Plato
41. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Lorraine Hansberry
dada school
Corinthian
multi-media
42. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Roman Basilica
Aaron Copeland
Alfred Hitchcock
cellini
43. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
reliquary
Persian Rugs
Beethoven & Wagner
Joan Miro
44. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
madrigal
Josiah Wedgewood
Beethoven & Wagner
Bernini
45. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Tetrameter
Chopin
Jane Austen
Corinthian
46. 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
Le Corbusier
Herman Melville
Chopin
Cynics
47. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
chalice
Kronos/Saturn
Barcelona Pavilion
Cimabue
48. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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49. London's Great Fire of 1666 led to ___________'s appointment as Surveyor General - overseeing all the reconstruction work on the royal palaces.
Christopher Wren
Gouche
Confucianism
Cervantes
50. One of the leading painters of the Florentine renaissance - developed a highly personal style. The Birth of Venus
aside
Federico Fellini
New Orleans
Botticelli