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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
French female pose
Bayeux tapestry
Hera/Juno
pop art
2. 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.
Plato
Remington
Hector Berlioz
Mannerism
3. Goddess of Animals
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Samuel Beckett
Ray Bradbury
Maia/Fauna
4. God of Wildlife
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Artemis/Diana
Parmenides
pieta
5. One of the first women of Impressionist painters; Young Girl by the Window
Pilgrim's Progress
Lindisfarne Gospel
Pablo Picasso
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
6. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
William Shakespeare
Honore de Balzac
Demeter/Ceres
Johannes Brahms
7. 1.Michelangelo 2.Leonardo de Vinci 3.Raphael
High Renaissance Painters
New Orleans
Simone De Beauvoir
Peter Paul Rubens
8. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Johannes Brahms
Aubrey Beardsley
9. A taller - thinner column with scroll shapes on its capital
Ionic
mannerism
Flying buttresses
Jules Verne
10. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Chartres Cathedral
Leo Tolstoy
Daniel Defoe
Georgia O'Keefe
11. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
Arthur Miller
Irony
Mies van der Rohe
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
12. Made a valuable contribution to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves. 'Camptown Races'
Lillian Gish
William Faulkner
Historians
Stephen Foster
13. An Italian painter - sculptor - and architect of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Among many achievements in a life of nearly ninety years - sculpted the David and several versions of the Pieta - painted the ceiling and rear wall of the Sistine
Beethoven & Wagner
Mozart and Richard Strauss
henry moore
Michelangelo
14. Famous artists: Jean-Francois Millet - Eugene Delacroix - J.M.W. Turner - and William Blake - Covering the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries - the works of this period stressed the inherent goodness in humanity and shied away from earlier
Giotto
Romanticism Movement
Christopher Wren
James Boswell
15. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
John Locke
Seurat
Cynics
Mary Shelley
16. French Impressionistic music composer; won the Prix de Rome (award given by the French government) Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun; LaMer
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Francois Rabelais
George Sand
Minimalist Music
17. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Alfred Hitchcock
Giotto
Alexander Dumas
Merchant of Venice
18. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
neo-classic period
Daniel Defoe
James Joyce
Tchaikovsky
19. Opaque watercolor
ballet
Gouche
Noh Theatre
dada school
20. Painted 'Annunciation' - Annunciation - Siena Cathedral - Italy - international gothic - (Early 14th)
presto
Simone Martini
Mary Shelley
Le Corbusier
21. Slow
Pieta
Peter Paul Rubens
andante
Rhymed Verse
22. 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.
Martha Graham
Cervantes
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Usonian
23. Artist of 'Purple Robe' (1937) - 'The Blue Nude' (1907) - 'The Piano Lesson' (1916) - and 'The Moorish Screen' (1921) - Known for his bold colors and thick - vibrant brushstrokes - pioneer in the modernist movement
Henri Matisse
Taoism
Obelisk
Artemis/Diana
24. Famous French impressionist composer
tempura
Book of Kells
Donatello
Claude Debussy
25. God of the sea
Transcendentalism
Immanuel Kant
Poseidon/Neptune
Jules Verne
26. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Marc Chagall
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Simone De Beauvoir
presto
27. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
T.S. Eliot
Hades/Pluto
Botticelli
A short syllable
28. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Apollo
Hermes/Mercury
Mies van der Rohe
Pythagoras
29. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Plato
Libretto
Edmund Spenser
Vermeer
30. 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
Botticelli
Merry Wives of Windsor
mosaics
Seurat
31. Clothed upright statues of women - often of goddesses (generally the Archaic period)
Thales
Rhymed Verse
korai
Barcelona Pavilion
32. Popularized the use of allegory - The Faerie Queen - Amoretti
Edmund Spenser
Victor Hugo
Verdi and Puccini
Simone De Beauvoir
33. The oldest surviving complete illuminated gospel book in the insular style; probably created between 650-700 in Northumbria (northern England/southern Scotland)
Pavane and the Polonaise
Book of Durrow
fresco
Stoicism
34. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
Lorraine Hansberry
Gilbert and Sullivan
neo-classic period
Pilgrim's Progress
35. Who designed the Brooklyn bridge?
Usonian
A long syllable
John Roebling
Beethoven & Wagner
36. 20th Century American composer
cellini
constantin brancusi
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Henry Dixon Cowell
37. A sect of hedonism (Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure) that believes that pleasure of the mind - not just the senses - is the ultimate good. Thoroughly defended by Ancient Greek philosophers - the base of this belief system is that the goal of every
Epicureans
Eugene O'Neil
Merry Wives of Windsor
allegro
38. Opaque watercolor
The Pigeon House
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Jane Austen
gouche
39. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
flat
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Stephen Crane
The Panthenon
40. 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
Andre Previn
George Sand
Thomas Hobbes
Monet
41. 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
Pearl Buck
Humanism
Neoplatonism
Art Deco Movement
42. Russian romantic composer; 4 piano concerti; Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini; Vocalise; called the last Romantic
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Hermes/Mercury
American Indian Rugs
Rembrandt
43. The creator of the twelve-tone system of atonal music.
Kshatriyas
Arnold Schoenberg
Romanesque Style
Aristotle
44. Famous French impressionist composer
Alice Walker
Claude Debussy
Rene Descartes
Alfred Hitchcock
45. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world.
cellini
Hagia Sophia
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Blank Verse
46. What type of column is a simple - plain shaft?
Abstraction
Corinthian
Honore de Balzac
Greek Doric
47. British abstract sculptor
barbara hepworth
Post Impressionism
flying buttress
Arthur Miller
48. Focuses on the direct relationship between the individual and the universe and/or God. Well-known existentialists include Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre - with S
Jean Jacques Rousseau
allegro
Existentialism
gouche
49. Penned the famous phrase 'I think - therefore I am.' - Perhaps better known for his contributions to geometry than philosophy (the Cartesian plane is named after him) - Descartes is actually considered the founder of modern rationalism.
flying buttress
Beethoven & Wagner
Remington
Rene Descartes
50. What does the symbol U mean in poetry?
Atomism
Octometer
A short syllable
louise nevelson