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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. 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
Cubism
Chloris/Flora
Eisenstein
El Greco
2. Repititions of geometric lines
Chopin
Dactylic
American Indian Rugs
Alfred Hitchcock
3. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Peter Paul Rubens
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
T.S. Eliot
Degas
4. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Tetrameter
Lorraine Hansberry
Chartres Cathedral
Alfred Hitchcock
5. 20th Century American composer
Henry Dixon Cowell
Penny Marshall
George Sand
Dada school
6. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
pop art
Zeus/Jupiter
chalice
sculpture
7. Played the xylophone and marimba
William Faulkner
Lionel Hampton
Book of Kells
dada school
8. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
Pyrrhic Pattern
Rembrandt
Aside
sitar
9. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
Henry Dixon Cowell
T.S. Eliot
Joseph Conrad
Donatello
10. The text of the opera
Atomism
Rene Descartes
Pavane and the Polonaise
Libretto
11. A capella singers
Mannerism
Andrea Palladio
madrigal
Hagia Sophia
12. Beautiful Italian singing
bel canto
Georgia O'Keefe
Meter
Atomism
13. French female author of more than eighty novels who took a man's name and dressed in male attire to protest the treatment of women
Existentialism
Aaron Copeland
George Sand
Alfred Hitchcock
14. Art produced from c. 450 BC to c. 700 AD by the Celts; mostly portable objects; Stone carvings - Crosses with interlace patterns - metal work - manuscripts
Socrates
madrigal
Tyche/Fortuna
Celtic Art
15. 20th Century American composer
Henry Dixon Cowell
sculpture
Satire
Guggenheim Museum
16. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Pentatonic Scale
Remington
Cervantes
Mary Wollstonecraft
17. Tall - 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point
obelisk
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Merry Wives of Windsor
Sitar
18. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
Pyrrhic Pattern
Plato
Hyperbole
oratorio
19. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
Dionysus/Bacchus
pop art
Leonardo da Vinci
neo-classic period
20. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Stephen Foster
Hector Berlioz
constantin brancusi
Daniel Defoe
21. Long-Short
Salvador Dali
bel canto
Trochaic pattern
Baroque art
22. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Francois Rabelais
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Edmund Spenser
Remington
23. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Eugene Delacroix
scrim
Bayeux tapestry
Mies van der Rohe
24. 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
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Merchant of Venice
Rococo
Renoir
25. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Henrik Ibsen
Immanuel Kant
The Pigeon House
26. Plato and Aristotle
mannerism
sitar
Moral Philosophers
Hera/Juno
27. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Jules Verne
Hera/Juno
Chopin
Parmenides
28. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Leo Tolstoy
Epic
Macbeth
Impressionistic Art came before
29. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.
Henry Dixon Cowell
Victor Hugo
Guggenheim Museum
louise nevelson
30. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
The Pigeon House
Chalice
Dada school
pieta
31. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Johannes Brahms
Mary Shelley
Atomism
Artemis/Diana
32. Opaque watercolor
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
gouche
mannerism
James Joyce
33. Russian composer
constantin brancusi
ballet
Aristotle
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
34. 1900 to the Present
Bayeux tapestry
Modern Period
Eros/Cupid
Jane Austen
35. I and the Village
D.W. Griffith
George Sand
Marc Chagall
Federico Fellini
36. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Bayeux tapestry
Andrew Wyeth
Macbeth
Peter Paul Rubens
37. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Henry David Thoreau
Taoism
French female pose
Mannerism
Popular Transcendentalists
38. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Denouement
Degas
Cervantes
Scott Joplin
39. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
Chalice
Langston Hughes
James Joyce
multi-media
40. French 20th century architect
Greek Doric
Gouche
Le Corbusier
Socrates
41. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
french female pose
Vermeer
Chopin
Mannerism
42. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Brunelleschi
Bronte Sisters
Pilgrim's Progress
Rembrandt
43. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
sitar
Honore de Balzac
Hagia Sophia
Noh Theatre
44. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Parmenides
Edmund Spenser
Corinthian
45. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Mies van der Rohe
Picasso
El Greco
Maia/Fauna
46. 1.Michelangelo 2.Leonardo de Vinci 3.Raphael
Chopin
Christopher Wren
High Renaissance Painters
Thales
47. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'
Johannes Brahms
Tchaikovsky
bust
Atomists
48. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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49. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
Othello
Charles Dickens
Metaphor
50. God of Fire - the Forge and Blacksmiths
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Hephaestus/Vulcan
John Dryden
Gilbert Stuart