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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Transitional movement in the 1880's connecting Impressionism and cubism in the visual arts
Pieta
Post Impressionism
Tchaikovsky
High Renaissance Painters
2. God of War
Daniel Defoe
obelisk
Aristotle
Ares/Mars
3. Style of art that attempts to portray the imagery of the subconscious mind
Georg W. F. Hegel
Surrealism
The Iliad
Allegory
4. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Fresco
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Claude Debussy
Jules Verne
5. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Lorraine Hansberry
Verdi and Puccini
Pythagoras
Jules Verne
6. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Christopher Wren
Johannes Brahms
Daniel Defoe
flat
7. 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
Bayeux tapestry
Lillian Gish
Existentialism
Andrew Wyeth
8. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Hamlet
Issac Asimov
michelangelo
Artemis/Diana
9. 19th century French syle of painting that tried to capture the painter's immediate impressions - usually of the outdoors. In music - a term associated witht the music of Debussy and Ravel
Impressionism
Hellenistic Period
Trompe l'oeil
D.W. Griffith
10. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
tragic figure
Benjamin Franklin
Jonathan Swift
Scott Joplin
11. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Renoir
Onomatopoeia
Transcendentalism
Samuel Beckett
12. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
Masaccio
King Lear
Augustine Age
Neo-classic period
13. The last phase of the Stone Age - marked by the domestication of animals - the development of agriculture - and the manufacture of pottery
A long syllable
constantin brancusi
Neolithic
Johannes Brahms
14. Three-foot line
Fresco
Trimeter
Irony
Herman Melville
15. A plain - sturdy column with a plain capital
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Doric
Le Corbusier
gothic age architecture
16. Painted 'The Bathers'
Jean Fragonard
cellini
Arnold Schoenberg
Impressionistic Art came before
17. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
scrim
Impressionistic Art came before
Usonian
Chopin
18. 1900 to the Present
Martha Graham
Spondaic Pattern
pieta
Modern Period
19. Spanish surrealist painter
Langston Hughes
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
El Greco
Salvador Dali
20. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Chloris/Flora
Edgar Allen Poe
Tchaikovsky
Alfred Hitchcock
21. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Rene Descartes
Rhymed Verse
Seurat
Mies van der Rohe
22. Mannerism painter
Epicureans
James Joyce
Samuel Beckett
El Greco
23. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Neo-classic period
Joseph Conrad
Impressionistic Art came before
Kshatriyas
24. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Chloris/Flora
Macbeth
Reliquary
Rembrandt
25. Six tone octave scale in which all successive tones are a whole step apart.
Johannes Brahms
Dada school
T.S. Eliot
Whole Tone Scale
26. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
alexander calder
Christopher Wren
Aubrey Beardsley
Ray Bradbury
27. Noted for his direct style - clear - sharp prose and critical wit - Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Jules Verne
Heptameter
Jonathan Swift
28. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Alfred Hitchcock
Cervantes
Hellenistic Period
Aubrey Beardsley
29. Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility. Exp. of Baroque style in France
Versailles
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Arthur Miller
Victor Hugo
30. French landscape painter - artist of 'Dusk' (1908) - considered to be one of the founders of impressionism
Niccolo Machiavelli
Claude Monet
T.S. Eliot
Merry Wives of Windsor
31. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Bronte Sisters
Giotto
Federico Fellini
Cimabue
32. Principally known for novels of manners and middle class English society - Sense and Sensibility - Pride and Prejudice
Chopin
Jane Austen
Jonathan Swift
sculpture
33. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
Serialism
Joseph Conrad
Monet
34. French impressionistic; studied in Italy; became famous in his lifetime (see page 290). Structural form from the Romantics. By The SeaShore
Gilbert and Sullivan
Mark Twain
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
William Shakespeare
35. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
Theme
Tragic Playwrights
Pearl Buck
cellini
36. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)
Paleolithic
constantin brancusi
Book of Kells
Friedrich Nietzsche
37. Messenger of the Gods and Finance
Hermes/Mercury
Joseph Conrad
Cervantes
Onomatopoeia
38. Death of a Salesman
Penny Marshall
Arthur Miller
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
Johannes Brahms
39. Court dances
Pavane and the Polonaise
Josiah Wedgewood
Rene Descartes
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
40. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Lillian Gish
Gilbert Stuart
Jonathan Swift
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
41. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
Vermeer
flat
Joseph Conrad
Pavane and the Polonaise
42. Instead of dealing with recognizable imagery - abstract art focuses on colors and form.
Andrew Wyeth
Abstraction
Giotto
Octometer
43. Composed 'Rite of Spring'
Stravinsky
Fauvism
George Sand
Lillian Gish
44. The most slender and ornate of the three Greek columns. Known for its decorative capital of delicately carved acanthus leaves.
Dada school
Ray Bradbury
Neoplatonism
Corinthian
45. God of the Sun - poetry - music and oracles
Ballet
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Phoebus/Apollo
Pavane and the Polonaise
46. Goddess of Animals
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Stephen Foster
Brahmans
Maia/Fauna
47. Believe in the four noble truths: existence is suffering - suffering is caused by need - suffering can cease - and there is a path to the cessation of suffering. Though Buddhists do not believe in a god - they follow the teachings of the mortal Budd
hagia sophia
Buddhists
Thomas Edison
Reliquary
48. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Jules Verne
Tragic figure
T.S. Eliot
Ares/Mars
49. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Giotto
Eisenstein
Pearl Buck
Handel
50. A style characteristic of seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe - subjects of portraits expanded beyond religious figures to nature and ordinary individuals. Many paintings incorporated long hallways and views through windows or doorways.
Denouement
Baroque Period
Donatello
Edmund Spenser
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