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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance






2. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'






3. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder






4. Early 20th century style of painting and to a lesser degrees sculpture that used geometric shapes as underlying primary forms. In contrast to Impressionism - which it succeeded - the primary concern of Cubism was with from rather than color






5. Japanese Artist - Thirty six view of Mt. Fuji - most famous Japanese mountain






6. The final unraveling of the plot in any story.






7. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey






8. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century






9. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building






10. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'






11. Short-Short






12. Court dances






13. Plato and Aristotle






14. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India






15. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons






16. A tapestry that recounts the battle of hastings - A piece of linen about 1 Ft.8 in. Wide by 213 ft.long covered with embroidery representing the incidents of Willam the conqueror's expedition to England.






17. A direct comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. Example: John swims like a fish.






18. Alexander the Great's tutor and a student of Plato - He disagreed with Plato that form and matter could be perceived as two separate things - and wrote such works as Rhetoric - Poetics - and Metaphysics.






19. 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






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






21. Art produced from c. 450 BC to c. 700 AD by the Celts; mostly portable objects; Stone carvings - Crosses with interlace patterns - metal work - manuscripts






22. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century






23. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back






24. Italian painter - engineer - musician - and scientist. The most versatile genius of the Renaissance - filled notebooks with engineering and scientific observations that were in some cases centuries ahead of their time. As a painter he is best known f






25. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.






26. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet






27. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship






28. Carried the motion picture into the new era with his silent epics (The Birth of a Nation - Intolerance - etc.) which introduced serious plots and elaborate productions to filmmaking.






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






30. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet






31. Chinese Painter; harp player in a pavillion






32. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.






33. Possibly the most famous English satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal - Swift (1667 - 1745) was a clergyman and Irishman - which often made hilarious impact in his writings (such as A Tale of a Tub and the aforementioned Mo






34. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).






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






36. Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility. Exp. of Baroque style in France






37. 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.






38. French Impressionistic music composer; won the Prix de Rome (award given by the French government) Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun; LaMer






39. Composer - conductor and pianist






40. A presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (All is change).






41. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures






42. The most slender and ornate of the three Greek columns. Known for its decorative capital of delicately carved acanthus leaves.






43. Carried the motion picture into the new era with his silent epics (The Birth of a Nation - Intolerance - etc.) which introduced serious plots and elaborate productions to filmmaking.






44. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors






45. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'






46. German metaphysician - began his string of successful philosophical publications with Critique of Pure Reason in 1781 - believed that reality extended only so far as an individual's personal degree of 'knowing -' and it is impossible to 'know' thing






47. Five-foot line






48. Science fiction writer






49. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington






50. A term that was originally coined during the Renaissance - it was a belief that man was the center of the universe. Humanism in general is a philosophy that centers around the capabilities of man.