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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.
Lillian Gish
Pieta
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
fresco
2. The creator of the twelve-tone system of atonal music.
andante
El Greco
Arnold Schoenberg
Mark Twain
3. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863
French Romantic painter
Aside
Hermes/Mercury
chalice
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
Heptameter
Hellenistic Period
Ballet
Romanticism Movement
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.
Irony
Eugene O'Neil
Joan Miro
Minimalist Music
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.
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
Thomas Gainsborough
Denouement
mannerism
7. Six-foot line
Pythagoras
James Boswell
scrim
Hexameter
8. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Renoir
Dactylic
Hyperbole
Othello
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.
Whole Tone Scale
Socrates
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Merry Wives of Windsor
10. Libertine whose focused prose - Social Contract
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Pilgrim's Progress
Aristotle
Plato
11. Tall - 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point
gothic age architecture
Martha Graham
obelisk
Atomism
12. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Mathew Brady
Tragic Playwrights
William Shakespeare
Gouche
13. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'
Leo Tolstoy
Edvard Greig
Richard Sheridan
Le Corbusier
14. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
Donatello
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Islam
Joseph Conrad
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.
mannerism
allegro
Neoclassicism
Giotto
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.
louise nevelson
Vermeer
Eros/Cupid
Bayeux tapestry
17. 6th Century B.C. - a Greek philosopher and mathematician - founder of a religous movement called Pythagoreanism
Pythagoras
cellini
Noh Theatre
Vincent van Gogh
18. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Jane Austen
Stravinsky
Lillian Gish
Hephaestus/Vulcan
19. Four-foot line
Pentatonic Scale
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Tetrameter
Friedrich Nietzsche
20. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Othello
Simone Martini
Henry Dixon Cowell
soliloquy
21. Goddess of Flowers and Spring
Chloris/Flora
Thomas Hobbes
Martha Graham
Persian Rugs
22. Three dimensional work of art - statue
Niccolo Machiavelli
Picasso
sculpture
Richard Sheridan
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
Renoir
constantin brancusi
Post Impressionism
Josiah Wedgewood
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
michelangelo
Mannerism
Lorraine Hansberry
Rene Descartes
26. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Jules Verne
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Cervantes
Picasso
27. God of Doors and beginnings and endings
constantin brancusi
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Ares/Mars
Phoebus/Apollo
28. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Henry David Thoreau
High Renaissance Painters
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Popular Transcendentalists
Mozart and Richard Strauss
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.
Thales
Charles Dickens
Frank Lloyd Wright
flying buttress
30. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Edmund Spenser
Shudras
Othello
Andrea Palladio
31. Painted 'The Bathers'
Neoclassicism
Federico Fellini
minuetto
Jean Fragonard
32. Played the xylophone and marimba
Corinthian
Simone De Beauvoir
Lionel Hampton
Noh Theatre
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
New Orleans
Richard Sheridan
Augustine Age
Hera/Juno
35. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
Dada school
Rembrandt
Gilbert Stuart
Jane Austen
36. The Mayans built their first temple in ____________.
Cerros
Tempura
Jane Austen
Libretto
37. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Joseph Conrad
Ray Bradbury
Peter Paul Rubens
multi-media
38. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Henrik Ibsen
Apollo
Jane Austen
tragic figure
39. Architect who like a statue at every corner
Sitar
Frank Lloyd Wright
Andrea Palladio
Dactylic
40. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Plato
Hector Berlioz
Noh Theatre
Tyche/Fortuna
41. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
constantin brancusi
Hamlet
Chalice
Bronte Sisters
42. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
Alexander Dumas
mannerism
Tragic Playwrights
Donatello
43. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Niccolo Machiavelli
Charles Dickens
alexander calder
Baroque art
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.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Serialism
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
45. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Hermes/Mercury
Rhymed Verse
Mark Twain
Edmund Spenser
46. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land
Al Jolson
Confucianism
T.S. Eliot
Pentameter
47. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
William Shakespeare
Manhattan Project
Frank Lloyd Wright
Penny Marshall
48. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Socrates
Hermes/Mercury
Pearl Buck
Arthur Miller
49. Wrote Rivals
Beethoven & Wagner
T.S. Eliot
Henry Dixon Cowell
Richard Sheridan
50. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Pythagoras
Aubrey Beardsley
Francois Rabelais
Georgia O'Keeffe
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