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162 Cards in this Set
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Henrik Isben
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Peer Gynt and a Doll's House
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Samuel Beckett
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Wrote the play Waiting for a Godot
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Eugene O'Neil
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Serious and wrote heavy drama with Adultery and Dark gritty plots
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Arthur Miller
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Wrote Death of a Salesman, the Crucible, and All my Sons
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Lorraine Hansberry
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Wrote Raisin In the Sun
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Noh Theatre
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A classical performance of Japanese Theater
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Soliloquy
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When an actor who is alone on stage vocalizes his innermost thoughts
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Aside
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When a character speaks to the audience, condfidentially, separating himself from the other characters
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Flat
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a frame on which a canvas or other material is stretche tight across, used for scenery
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Scrim
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a gauze material that if you light it from the back side you can see a silhouette, also used for scenery
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A Tragic Figure
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A good person brought down by a flw in character.
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Haiku
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a poem that is 17 syllables long, unrhymed, with three lines total in this order,5 syllables, 7,5
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Rhyme
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two lines that end in similarly sounding words
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Eye Rhyme
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When the words look alike but don't rhyme
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Stanza
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A group of lines in a poem
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Blank verse
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When a poem doesn't rhyme
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Free Verse
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poem in whatever format you want
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Sonnet
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a rhymed metered poem which is 14 lines long
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Epic
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A long narrative poem that tells a story
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Beowulf
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An example of an Epic
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Limerick
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A nonsense peom, with five lines. Lines 1 and 2 rhyme, 3 and 4, 5 and 1.
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Elegy
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to memorialize someone
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Dante
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an Italian the wrote The Human Comedy also knon as the Divine Comedy
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Chaucer
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wrote the Canterbury Tales
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John Milton
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Wrote Paradixe Lost, was a religious zealot and became blind while in jail for eight years
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Lord Byron
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An English poet
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Robert Hayden
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Wrote the peom "Those Winter Sundays"
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Dylan Thomas
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Wrote the poem "Do not go gently into that good night"
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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An american Poetess who wrote "Renascence"
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Wrote "Sonnets of the Prtuguese" and the poem "How shall I love thee, let me count the ways..."
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Percy Shelley
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Was Married to MAry Shelley
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Robert Frost
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Wrote the poem "Fire and Ice"
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Dorothy Parker
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Wrote "The Second Oldest Story" and "Partial Comfort"
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Sylvia Plath
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Wrote The Bell Jar
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Ralph Waldeo Emerson
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Essayist who believed in transcendentalism
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Henry David Thoreau
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Wrote On Walden Pond or Life in the Woods
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Torah
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Jewish scripture
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Koran
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Islam scripture
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Book of Revelations
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the last book in the bible
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Bhagavad-Gita
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A Hindu Religion
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Atman
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In Bhagavad-Gita it is the name for the mortal soul of every creature, including plants and animals
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Nirvana
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Buddhist philosophy, and is the ultimate glory of the soul
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Oglala Sioux
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a wise man
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Gandhi
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promoted non-violence
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The gothic age was the age of what?
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Faith
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
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Wrote "Summa Theologica"
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Martin Luther King
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I have a dream speech
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John F. Kennedy
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Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country
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Handel
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Composed the oratorio the "Messiah"
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Pavane
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A court dance
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Polonaise
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a court dance
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Mozart
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Worte music based on Don Juan
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Richard STrauss
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Wrote musice based on Don Juan
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Hector Berlioz
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composed "Symphonie Fantastique"
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Edvart Greig
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was norwegian and composed a musical "Peer Gynt"
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Arnold Schoenberg
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Invented a twelve tone system of composeg music, known as Atonal Music
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Stravinsky
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Composed"The Rite of Spring"
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Henry Dixon Cowell
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Was a 20th centruy American composer
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Beethoven
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was inspired by Schiller's poem "Ode to Joy"
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Wagner
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was inspired by Schiller's poem "Ode to Joy"
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Werdi
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Wrote operas
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Puccini
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wrote operas
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Tchaikovsky
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Composed the 1812 Overture and the Nutcracker
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Chopin
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was a peanist, called the Poet of the piano
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Stephen Foster
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wrote "Camptown Races" and over 150 other songs.
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Johannes Brahms
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was a Romantic Composer
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Claude Debussy
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An impressionistice composer
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Gilbert and Sullivan
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wrote and composed musical theatre including Pirates of Penzance, and Mikado.
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Aaron Copeland
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Composed Appalachian Spring
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Scott Joplin
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composed ragtime music and "The Entertainer"
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Count Basie
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Played the trumpet
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Louis Armstrong
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Played the trumpet
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John Coltran
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Played the sax
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Lionel Hampton
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Played the xylophone and marimba
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Andre Previn
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a composer, conducor and pianist
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Allegro
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fast
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andante
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slow
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presto
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fast
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Minuetto
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a dance
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Madrigal
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are a'capella singers
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Bel Canto
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Beautiful singing (Italian)
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Libretto
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Text of the opera
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OPratorio
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Musical Piece for vocals and instuments
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Sitar
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a guitar-like instrument from India
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Serge Diaghilev
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opened the Ballet Russe, a school for dance. He influenced "The Firebird " and "Petrushka"
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Martha Graham
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Mother of dance
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Thomas Edison
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Created two motion picture called "The Sneexe" and "The Kiss"
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D. W. Griffith
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created the movie "Birth of a Nation"
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Federico Fellini
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an Italian film director. He created " La Dolce Vita" and " Fellini Satyricon"
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Al Jolson
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Stared in "The JAzz Singer"
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Eisenstein
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Used new techniques to switch from scene to scene. He created a montage, whcih could be rapid scenes around a theme.
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Lillian Gish
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the first female director
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Penny Marshall
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a female modern director, whose works includes "Big" and Jumping Jack Flash"
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South Americans
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Made art figures, used a lot of square and the figures have headdresses
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Persian Rugs
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very ornate, living things never projected
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Bayeyuux tapestry
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very famous tapestry
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Brussels tapestries
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lot of life including a very ornate border
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Josiah Wedgewood
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An english artist who was famous for his Neo-classic blue containers with white figures
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Reliquary
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wooded box or chest used for storing holy things
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Chalice
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a cup with a large base
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Pop art
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commercial art raised up ro an art form
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Andy Warhol
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framed a picture of the Campbell's Soup Can
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Mosaics
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originated with the Byzantine
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Tesserae
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what the small square peices of the mosaics are called
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Sculpture
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three dimensional art form
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Eisenstein
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Used new techniques to switch from scene to scene. He created a montage, whcih could be rapid scenes around a theme.
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Lillian Gish
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the first female director
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Penny Marshall
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a female modern director, whose works includes "Big" and Jumping Jack Flash"
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South Americans
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Made art figures, used a lot of square and the figures have headdresses
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Persian Rugs
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very ornate, living things never projected
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Bayeyuux tapestry
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very famous tapestry
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Brussels tapestries
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lot of life including a very ornate border
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Josiah Wedgewood
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An english artist who was famous for his Neo-classic blue containers with white figures
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Reliquary
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wooded box or chest used for storing holy things
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Chalice
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a cup with a large base
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Pop art
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commercial art raised up ro an art form
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Andy Warhol
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framed a picture of the Campbell's Soup Can
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Mosaics
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originated with the Byzantine
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Tesserae
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what the small square peices of the mosaics are called
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Sculpture
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three dimensional art form
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Bust
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a statue of a head
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Cellini
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known for his sculpting and metalwork
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Michelangelo
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Sculpte David adn painted the ceiling of the cistine chapel
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Henry Moore
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a sculptor who uses rounded sculpture and not a lot of detail
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Constantin Brancusi
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sculpted "The Kiss"
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Barbara Hepworth
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abstract sculptor
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Louis Nevelson
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Sculptor who specialized in wood. Made" Black Chord"
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Alexander Calder
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sculpture who invented the mobile
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Obelisk
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a tall four sided shaft of stone
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Hagia Sophia
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an eastern church, where parts are made by interlocking domes Byzantine design
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Flying buttress
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support on the outside of the building
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Christopher Wren
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the architect that redid St. Paul's Cathedral
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Andrea Palladio
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was an architatct that liked a statue at every corder of the building
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Frank Lloyed Wright
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and architect he believed in Form with Feeling
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Le Corbusier
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A french 20th Century architect
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Mies van der Rohe
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a German architect
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Fresco
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a painting on a moist layer of plaster
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Tempura
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finely ground pigments with a stabilizing base
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Gouche
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opaque water color
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Giotto
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painted frescoes and was an architect
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Annunciations
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the name of the event of the Angel appearing to Mary to tell her of her divine role as Jesus' Mother
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Pieta
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the name of any sculpture where MAry is holding Jesus
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Donatello
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a sculptor who worked in bronze
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Da Vinci
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Painted " The Virgin of the Rocks" " The Last Supper" and " Mona Lisa"
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Mannerism
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a style of art and architecture,rejected perfection
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El Greco
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was a spanish mannerism painter
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Remrandt
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used light in his paintings and painted " The Blinding of Samson"
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Peter Paul Rubens
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was a flemish painter
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Vermeer
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painted "THe Bathers"
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Delacroix
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a precise french painter
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Monet
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a french painter woh was famous for his work with light color and water
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Renoir
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was fmous for his French female nude paintings
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Degas
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was a french painter and sculptor who painted many pictures involving ballet dancers
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Seurat
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used small dots of color to make a big picture, " A sunday on LA Grande Jatte"
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Aubry Beardsly
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made drawings in black and white
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Gilbert STuart
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made portraits of George Washington
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Picasso
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was and abstract artist
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Remington
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an artist that painted the scenes of the American west
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Salvador Dali
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Was a surrealist
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Miro
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was a surrealist painter
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DADA School
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was a school of nonsense and anti art
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Andrew Wyeth
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Painted " Christina's World"
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