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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.
Soliloquy
Herman Melville
soliloquy
Samuel Beckett
2. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
Monet
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
T.S. Eliot
Andrew Wyeth
3. French Impressionistic composer; Bolero: Gaspard de la nuit; 3 pieces to it (on Dine) 1st piece of Gaspar
Jonathan Swift
Seurat
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
4. French for 'fool the eye.' A two-dimensional representation that is so naturalistic that it looks actual or real (or three-dimensional).
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5. Gainsborough (1727-1788) was one of the first great landscape artists of his time - and was recognized for painting every section of his works himself
fresco
Simile
Thomas Gainsborough
Leo Tolstoy
6. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Herman Melville
Verdi and Puccini
Stravinsky
Da Vinci
7. Architect; Guggenheim museum Spain branch; see figure 14.19 on page 366
Vaishyas
alexander calder
neo-classic period
Frank Gehry 1929
8. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Jonathan Swift
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Degas
William Shakespeare
9. Wrote Rivals
Christopher Wren
Lionel Hampton
Richard Sheridan
Book of Durrow
10. Made a valuable contribution to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves. 'Camptown Races'
Tragic figure
Hamlet
Ares/Mars
Stephen Foster
11. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Remington
Joseph Conrad
Islam
Tragic Playwrights
12. Thucydides and Herodotus
Georg W. F. Hegel
hagia sophia
Historians
Greek Ionic
13. Long-Short
Andrea Palladio
Trochaic pattern
sculpture
Georg W. F. Hegel
14. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Eisenstein
alexander calder
Lindisfarne Gospel
Thomas Edison
15. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Victor Hugo
Henry Dixon Cowell
Degas
Jules Verne
16. What type of column has scrolls - and is taller?
Epic
Simile
Rococo
Greek Ionic
17. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Pythagoras
Gothic age architecture
Monet
Existentialism
18. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Pieta
Aubrey Beardsley
George Sand
19. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Reliquary
Honore de Balzac
Mies van der Rohe
sculpture
20. Founded by the prophet Mohammad - Followers - called Muslims - go by the book of the Qur'an - the word of God as told to Mohammed. There are five basic principles to Islam: first - there is only one God - and Mohammed is the only mouthpiece of God; s
Islam
Pearl Buck
The Pigeon House
Cubism
21. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
Brussels tapestries
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Donatello
aside
22. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
Chopin
Andrew Wyeth
Gothic age architecture
Giotto
23. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.
Daniel Defoe
Roman Basilica
Frank Lloyd Wright
Chloris/Flora
24. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
dada school
Jules Verne
Sitar
Vermeer
25. Spanish surrealist painter
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Artemis/Diana
Joan Miro
louise nevelson
26. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
James Joyce
Andrea Palladio
Ernest Hemingway
henry moore
27. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
tragic figure
Giotto
Guggenheim Museum
Jonathan Swift
28. Foremost literary critic of the romantic period - Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fauvism
bel canto
John Dryden
29. A contradiction of a story as it appears to its characters - and what the audience knows as true.
Maia/Fauna
Medieval Architecture
Irony
Giotto
30. Is the last accepted pagan philosophy and was founded by Plotinus around 300 AD and based around the ideas of Plato. Disregarding the idea of separate - opposite realms of being (such as good and evil) - Plotinus instead mapped out a logical order to
chalice
Josiah Wedgewood
Christopher Wren
Neoplatonism
31. Student of michelangelo - made the school of athens - and the madonna and child series. used pudgeyness to show that people aren't as perfect as they thought.
Raphael
Verdi and Puccini
Gothic age architecture
Andre Previn
32. 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
Honore de Balzac
Vermeer
Niccolo Machiavelli
33. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
Roman Basilica
Edgar Allen Poe
oratorio
barbara hepworth
34. Known as the Father of Taoism - Sixth century B.C. philosopher Lao Tzu (or 'Old Sage') is credited with starting the philosophy of Taoism. Some scholars believe that he was a slightly older contemporary of Confucius.
Lao Tzu
Charles Dickens
alexander calder
Raphael
35. The final unraveling of the plot in any story.
Cerros
Denouement
Athena/Minerva
Satire
36. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Lionel Hampton
American Indian Rugs
Thomas Edison
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
37. 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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38. Method of composition by which the composer extends the technique of twelve tone composition to other areas such as rhythm dynamics timbre and duration. Most important invention in the 20th century.
Artemis/Diana
pieta
Stephen Foster
Serialism
39. Early 20th century style of painting and to a lesser degrees sculpture that used geometric shapes as underlying primary forms. In contrast to Impressionism - which it succeeded - the primary concern of Cubism was with from rather than color
mosaics
Peter Paul Rubens
Hector Berlioz
Cubism
40. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
Flying buttresses
James Joyce
Charles Dickens
Romanesque Style
41. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
Arthur Miller
Hellenistic Period
Monet
Pilgrim's Progress
42. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Remington
El Greco
Spondaic Pattern
Johannes Brahms
43. Architectural style of medieval Europe - characterized by semi-circular arches - massive quality - thick walls - round arches - sturdy piers - groin vaults - large towers - decorative arcading. Crossed England from France.
Romanesque Style
James Joyce
Lillian Gish
John Locke
44. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863
Mark Twain
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
French Romantic painter
Niccolo Machiavelli
45. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
Phoebus/Apollo
allegro
Eros/Cupid
Ballet
46. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
gothic age architecture
Atomism
Tempura
El Greco
47. The Starry Night
Merry Wives of Windsor
Vincent van Gogh
Martin Heidegger
mosaics
48. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Cervantes
Joseph Conrad
sitar
Josiah Wedgewood
49. artist of Return of the Prodigal Son (1636) - Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (1632) - Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer (1653) - and The Night Watch - Showed a particular interest in painting the poor and downtrodden - considered the best Dutch
Simile
Henry Dixon Cowell
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Greek Doric
50. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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