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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
alexander calder
The Panthenon
Cervantes
Serge Diaghilev
2. Leader of the Spanish Art Nouveau movement - _____________ designed Casa Mila and Casa Batllo in Barcelona.
minuetto
Othello
Celtic Art
Antonio Gaudi
3. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Tempura
Vaishyas
Christopher Wren
Cervantes
4. French Post-impressionistic painter; moved to Tahiti to look for the unspoiled life. Mahana No Atua(Day of the Gods). He used flat - 2 dimensional surfaces with strong outlines.
Daniel Defoe
Johannes Brahms
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
5. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Remington
Vermeer
Shudras
6. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Hector Berlioz
louise nevelson
Da Vinci
Iambic pattern
7. Messenger of the Gods and Finance
Hermes/Mercury
Joseph Conrad
Serge Diaghilev
Alice Walker
8. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
Irony
Stephen Crane
Tragic figure
barbara hepworth
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
Pavane and the Polonaise
multi-media
Salvador Dali
Impressionism
10. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Victor Hugo
Samuel Beckett
gothic age architecture
Simone De Beauvoir
11. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
barbara hepworth
Degas
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Joseph Conrad
12. 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
Seurat
Dimeter
A long syllable
Salvador Dali
13. Born in 1508 - ______________ was greatly influenced by Renaissance philosophers and artists - and was made architectural advisor to the Vatican in 1570. His great architectural works include Villa Foscari - Teatro Olimpico - and Palazzo Chiericati -
Pilgrim's Progress
Andrea Palladio
Trochaic pattern
Salvador Dali
14. One-foot line
Monometer
James Joyce
Edmund Spenser
Delacroix
15. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Minimalist Music
Remington
Ernest Hemingway
16. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
scrim
George Sand
Le Corbusier
Hamlet
17. God of the sea
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
Poseidon/Neptune
French Romantic painter
Beethoven & Wagner
18. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Martha Graham
Merchant of Venice
Chopin
Spondaic Pattern
19. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Seurat
Rembrandt
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Arthur Miller
20. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
King Lear
barbara hepworth
Frank Lloyd Wright
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
21. 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
John Roebling
Michelangelo
Apostrophe
Mary Wollstonecraft
22. God of Wine
William Shakespeare
cellini
Christopher Marlowe
Dionysus/Bacchus
23. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Thomas Edison
Stephen Crane
King Lear
24. Chinese Painter; harp player in a pavillion
Eisenstein
Georgia O'Keefe
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
Andrea Palladio
25. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail
American Indian Rugs
Richard Sheridan
henry moore
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
26. Both describes the Chinese manner of thought - and a major Chinese religion - Largely adopted from Buddhism - Taoism incorporates many gods - the head of which is the Jade Emperor - with the Emperor of the Eastern Mountain serving as second-in-comman
Lionel Hampton
chalice
flat
Taoism
27. German philosopher born in 1844 - More of a moralist than a philosopher (though his name is arguably the most widely recognized) - Nietzsche hated Western civilization with a passion and spent much of his time denouncing it. He believed in a superma
Friedrich Nietzsche
Georg W. F. Hegel
Alfred Hitchcock
Cimabue
28. The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning. i.e. hiss - hiss - buzz - buzz.
Onomatopoeia
Lao Tzu
Atomists
tempura
29. Literature whose primary aim is to expound some moral - political - or other teaching.
Trompe l'oeil
James Boswell
Didactic-ism
Salvador Dali
30. Implied comparison between two normally unrelated things - indicating a likeness between them. Words can also be used to replace other words. Example: His room is a dump.
Metaphor
Andrew Wyeth
James Boswell
Alfred Hitchcock
31. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Aubrey Beardsley
Dante Aligheri
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Honore de Balzac
32. Beautiful Italian singing
Leonardo da Vinci
bel canto
William Faulkner
Monet
33. Opaque watercolor
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Christopher Marlowe
Gouche
Henry Dixon Cowell
34. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
James Boswell
Gilbert Stuart
Jules Verne
F. Scott Fitzgerald
35. French landscape painter - artist of 'Dusk' (1908) - considered to be one of the founders of impressionism
Antonio Gaudi
Claude Monet
Mary Shelley
Simile
36. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Aphrodite/Venus
Bronte Sisters
Jane Austen
Renaissance Art
37. London's Great Fire of 1666 led to ___________'s appointment as Surveyor General - overseeing all the reconstruction work on the royal palaces.
Parmenides
Christopher Wren
Aaron Copeland
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
38. Published Phenomenology of Mind in 1807 and Philosophy of Right in 1821 - According to the Hegelian dialectic - one thought (i.e. being) invariably leads to a thought of its antithesis (not being) - and the two must come together to form an entirely
Herman Melville
Georg W. F. Hegel
Claude Debussy
Existentialism
39. French 20th century architect
Persian Rugs
Le Corbusier
Pavane and the Polonaise
Lillian Gish
40. Architect who like a statue at every corner
Andrea Palladio
Lorraine Hansberry
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Ballet
41. Figure of speech that give human traits to animals - objects - or ideas. Example: the storm lashed the naked - helpless shore.
Francois Rabelais
Atomism
Pythagoras
Personification
42. Made a valuable contribution to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves. 'Camptown Races'
Ares/Mars
Thales
Stephen Foster
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
43. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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44. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Mary Shelley
Georgia O'Keeffe
Martin Heidegger
45. Style of art that attempts to portray the imagery of the subconscious mind
Flat
bust
Surrealism
Christopher Wren
46. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - Girl Before a Mirror
American Indian Rugs
Pablo Picasso
Mary Wollstonecraft
Josiah Wedgewood
47. 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
Stoicism
Martha Graham
New Orleans
Henri Matisse
48. A radically unconventional group formed by Antisthenes in Greece in 400 A.D. This group considered virtue to be the only - not just the highest - good. They were largely self-sufficient - celibate (abstaining from sexual intercourse) - and ascetic (r
Arnold Schoenberg
Fresco
Cynics
Abstraction
49. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Beethoven & Wagner
henry moore
Aubrey Beardsley
The Parthenon
50. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Mary Shelley
flat
Stephen Crane
Guggenheim Museum