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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
John Dryden
pop art
Iambic pattern
Romanesque Style
2. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Pilgrim's Progress
James Boswell
Langston Hughes
Christopher Wren
3. One of the leading painters of the Florentine renaissance - developed a highly personal style. The Birth of Venus
louise nevelson
Issac Asimov
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Botticelli
4. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'
American Indian Rugs
Donatello
Minimalist Music
Edvard Greig
5. Famous French impressionist composer
Gilbert and Sullivan
Claude Debussy
Benjamin Franklin
Demeter/Ceres
6. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Gilbert Stuart
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hagia Sophia
Persian Rugs
7. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Alfred Hitchcock
Joseph Conrad
Plato
Stravinsky
8. Seven-foot line
Giotto
Heptameter
Renoir
Lillian Gish
9. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Josiah Wedgewood
Bolero
Thomas Gainsborough
Honore de Balzac
10. Georges Pierre Seurat
Issac Asimov
Gilbert Stuart
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
11. Mannerism painter
Metaphor
Neoplatonism
El Greco
Barcelona Pavilion
12. The Italian sculptor and goldsmith who was best known for the doors to the baptistery of Florence's cathedral - and another set of doors which was called 'The Gates to Paradise'. He also wrote one of the earliest autobiographies by an artist - which
Ghiberti
James Joyce
Remington
michelangelo
13. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Mathew Brady
Jules Verne
Charles Dickens
Georgia O'Keefe
14. Addressing of a person or thing that is not actually their. Example: Romeo - Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?!
Manichaeism
Church of San Vitale
Atomism
Apostrophe
15. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Andrew Wyeth
Joseph Conrad
Pearl Buck
16. 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
Atomism
Renoir
soliloquy
Buddhists
17. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Christopher Wren
Othello
Edgar Allen Poe
Ray Bradbury
18. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Vincent van Gogh
Frank Lloyd Wright
Josiah Wedgewood
Rembrandt
19. Leader of the Spanish Art Nouveau movement - _____________ designed Casa Mila and Casa Batllo in Barcelona.
Antonio Gaudi
Georgia O'Keeffe
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Remington
20. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
bust
Simone De Beauvoir
Pythagoras
chalice
21. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Mosaic
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Didactic-ism
Simone De Beauvoir
22. Wrote operas
Andrew Wyeth
Verdi and Puccini
Mary Shelley
Alfred Hitchcock
23. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Chopin
Brussels tapestries
Andrew Wyeth
Bernini
24. What type of column has scrolls - and is taller?
Greek Ionic
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Pythagoras
Andre Previn
25. Court dances
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Pavane and the Polonaise
Hellenistic Period
Issac Asimov
26. French impressionistic; studied in Italy; became famous in his lifetime (see page 290). Structural form from the Romantics. By The SeaShore
tragic figure
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Impressionism
27. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Bronte Sisters
Hermes/Mercury
Honore de Balzac
Socrates
28. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Da Vinci
Pablo Picasso
Mark Twain
29. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Honore de Balzac
Stravinsky
flat
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
30. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
Hector Berlioz
Joan Miro
Parmenides
Symbolism
31. One of the greatest sculptors of the 19th century - The Thinker: The Kiss 12.2
Classical Period
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
flat
Ballet
32. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Friedrich Nietzsche
Libretto
Pavane and the Polonaise
Mark Twain
33. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Benjamin Franklin
Socrates
Hector Berlioz
Claude Debussy
34. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
Existentialism
Simone De Beauvoir
D.W. Griffith
Vermeer
35. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Augustine Age
Peter Paul Rubens
Vaishyas
Edvard Greig
36. 1.Michelangelo 2.Leonardo de Vinci 3.Raphael
High Renaissance Painters
Al Jolson
Art Deco Movement
Andrea Palladio
37. Romantic novelist whose liberal social and political views underscore her work - Frankenstein - the Last Man
Mary Shelley
madrigal
Abstraction
Obelisk
38. Frank Lloyd Wright designed what?
High Renaissance
Guggenheim Museum
Christopher Marlowe
Baroque art
39. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Gouche
Ernest Hemingway
Ionic
Penny Marshall
40. Architect who like a statue at every corner
Andrea Palladio
Personification
Aaron Copeland
Thomas Edison
41. An English writer who wrote 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' - arguing that women are not naturally inferior to men - but appear to be so because of lack of education
Mary Wollstonecraft
Eros/Cupid
pop art
Christopher Wren
42. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Ernest Hemingway
Francois Rabelais
Onomatopoeia
Giotto
43. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Pearl Buck
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Stephen Crane
44. Influential in establishing the heroic couplet - Alexander's Feast - heroic stanzas
Post Impressionism
Othello
Pablo Picasso
John Dryden
45. Slow
Aphrodite/Venus
James Boswell
George Sand
andante
46. 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
Pilgrim's Progress
Barcelona Pavilion
Thomas Edison
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
47. Consists of lines that do not have regular meter or rhyme
Othello
Free Verse
Bayeux tapestry
Hades/Pluto
48. Five-foot line
Pentameter
Renoir
Le Corbusier
barbara hepworth
49. Laborer caste in Hinduism
Georgia O'Keeffe
Shudras
Theme
Salvador Dali
50. Who is the architect of this building? (Uses glass walls - abstract - etc.)
Monometer
Kshatriyas
Joan Miro
IM Pei