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HUMANITIES CLEP TEST QUESTIONS
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Greek Philosophers Before Socrates - ANSWER Pre-Socrates



Pythagoras - ANSWER 6th Century B.C., a Greek philosopher and mathematician, founder of a religous
movement called Pythagoreanism



Thales - ANSWER "Father of Western Philosophy". Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had
originated from water.



Parmenides - ANSWER a pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time,
plurality, and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.



Heraclitus - ANSWER 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).



Zeno - ANSWER ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that
motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)



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



Atomism - ANSWER The idea that matter is made out of atoms



Atomists - ANSWER Leucippus and Democritus



Plato - ANSWER one of Socrates' students; was considered by many to be the GREATEST philosopher of
western civilization. Explained his ideas about government in a work entitled The Republic. In his ideal
state, the people were divided into three different groups.

,Aristotle - ANSWER Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato, the tutor of Alexander the Great, and the author
of works on logic, metaphysics, ethics, natural sciences, politics, and poetics, he profoundly influenced
Western thought. In his philosophical system, which led him to criticize what he saw as Plato's
metaphysical excesses, theory follows empirical observation and logic, based on the syllogism, is the
essential method of rational inquiry.



pop art - ANSWER an artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from
popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art



mosaics - ANSWER patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on
surfaces such as walls and floors



sculpture - ANSWER three dimensional work of art, statue



bust - ANSWER a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person



obelisk - ANSWER tall, 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point



multi-media - ANSWER using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter
or beads on a painting



louise nevelson - ANSWER assembled architectural sculptures of "found" wooden objects and used them
to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.



constantin brancusi - ANSWER (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified
archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)



cellini - ANSWER goldsmith and sculptor, wrote one of the first autobiographies



barbara hepworth - ANSWER British abstract sculptor

,michelangelo - ANSWER Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted
the statue of David.



henry moore - ANSWER abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail



alexander calder - ANSWER United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)



hagia sophia - ANSWER Most famous example of Byzantine architecture, it was built under Justinian I
and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world. Constructed of interlocking domes.



gothic age architecture - ANSWER stained glass, pointed arches and ribbed vaulting



Andrea Palladio - ANSWER architect who like a statue at every corner



Le Corbusier - ANSWER French 20th century architect



Christopher Wren - ANSWER architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral



Mies van der Rohe - ANSWER United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel
frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)



Frank Lloyd Wright - ANSWER Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a
building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.



flying buttress - ANSWER a brace or support placed on the outside of a building



fresco - ANSWER paint onto wet plaster on a wall



tempura - ANSWER a technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk

, gouche - ANSWER Opaque watercolor



pieta - ANSWER A painting, drawing, or sculpture of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, holding the dead body of
Jesus. The word means "pity" in Italian.



renaissance - ANSWER rebirth



mannerism - ANSWER 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.



neo-classic period - ANSWER refers to the classical revival in European art, architecture, and interior
design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century



french female pose - ANSWER subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder



dada school - ANSWER school of nonsense and anti-art



Giotto - ANSWER Frescoe painter, founded flourentine school, realisitc poses



Donatello - ANSWER Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural,
lifelike figures, such as the bronze statue David.



Da Vinci - ANSWER painter, sculpter, architect, engineer, musician; invented the court painter of the king
of France; "Mona Lisa," "The Last Supper"(classical), "Vitruvian Man"(anatomy)



El Greco - ANSWER Mannerism painter



Rembrandt - ANSWER He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of
Samson



Peter Paul Rubens - ANSWER Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work

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