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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. Spanish artist color plate 82-The Persistence of Memroy; best known and most sensational of the Surrealists.






2. The creator of the twelve-tone system of atonal music.






3. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863






4. 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






5. Late 20th century style in which brief patter is textures - and other musical fragments are repeated for an extended period of time with trance-like persistence.






6. 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.






7. Six-foot line






8. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband






9. Plato's teacher - declared that the gods had named him the wisest of all humanity - because he was the only one who knew how little he knew - he was later condemned to death by drinking poison hemlock by fellow Athenians for his alleged atheism.






10. Libertine whose focused prose - Social Contract






11. Tall - 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point






12. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies






13. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'






14. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.






15. An imitation of the style identified with the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome. Usually associated with European art and literature from the mid-1600s through the eighteenth century.






16. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.






17. 6th Century B.C. - a Greek philosopher and mathematician - founder of a religous movement called Pythagoreanism






18. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)






19. Four-foot line






20. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband






21. Goddess of Flowers and Spring






22. Three dimensional work of art - statue






23. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons

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24. Transitional movement in the 1880's connecting Impressionism and cubism in the visual arts






25. Famous artists: El Greco - Jacopo Tintoretto - and Antoine Caron - An Italian art form from 1520-1600 - the mannerism movement sought to go against the strict proportionality of the High Renaissance by deliberately skewing scales and figures - with h






26. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'






27. God of Doors and beginnings and endings






28. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Henry David Thoreau






29. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.






30. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband






31. Painted 'The Bathers'






32. Played the xylophone and marimba






33. 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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34. Wrote Rivals






35. Wrote Pride and Prejudice






36. The Mayans built their first temple in ____________.






37. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work






38. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'






39. Architect who like a statue at every corner






40. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance






41. Decorative drinking cup or goblet






42. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.






43. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'






44. 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.






45. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language






46. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land






47. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash






48. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'






49. Wrote Rivals






50. Famous for black and white erotic paintings







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