Humanities Clep Test Questions With 100% Correct Answers

Humanities Clep Test Questions With 100% Correct Answers 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 () 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 () 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