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See final presentation project.
See rubric and edited schedule below.
 
Your slides must be printed out in “Notes Pages” format and turned in to me – with any required edits (stuff you suddenly notice—as in, “Holy Cow!! How did I not see that!”) by Friday, 25 May 2012 at the beginning of class.

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If you want to learn a little something about contemporary artists check out
 
 
About Art21
Art21 is a nonprofit dedicated to engaging audiences with contemporary visual art, inspiring creative thinking, and educating a new generation about artists working today. Learn more about the organization and its initiatives at art21.org.
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This program is on PBS. On the website you can watch videos about individual artists.

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Read Stokstad chapters six and seven: Etruscan Art and Roman Art and Early Christian, Jewish, and Byzantine Art.
 
We will start "going over" the Roman Art on Tuesday....READ, READ, READ, READ!!!
 
An Art History ReviewaPalooza Sunday, 6 May 2012 starting at 9:00 a.m.!!!

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Read Stokstad chapter five: Art of Ancient Greece.

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Read Stokstad chapter four: Aegean Art.

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Saturday, 21 April 2012 (after spring break), we go to the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park (very Watteau!) for a docent lead your on AMERICAN ART--which should help fill in the gaps right before the BIG AP TEST on Tuesday, 8 May 2012.

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Read Stokstad chapter 3: Art of Ancient Egypt.

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Read Stokstad chapters 1-2: Prehistory and Prehistoric Europe and Art of the ancient Near East
Once again--please rely on the notes to focus your reading--or you will get bogged down.
You might want to review the images first to get you excited--the ancient near east is some pretty "cool" stuff!

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We will finish discussing chapter 28--there will be some wrap up writing. Stay tuned!

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On Friday, we will have our last class that focuses directly on Modern Art.
Please review the attached slides from the slide quiz. Know your "ism's"
 
Yes. WE ARE GOING to the San Diego Musuem of Art for a docent-lead tour of the American Art there: this field trip will be a wonderful chance to study for the exam without "reading!"
And yes--just going will count as extra credit--HOW MUCH? How much do you need?!
 
Bye-the-bye: please return the DVD's so others can enjoy them...should I leave them with Ms. Rea this Saturday, so that you AP Calculus students can take an art break?

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I just wrote the test about these five chapters--seven questions related to images--directly based on the notes and images below. There are two versions....I think the test will help you get to the g=heart of what might be most valuable for you to "retain" for the big AP Test!!
 
Read and master these chapters over break.
  1. Indigenous America: Stokstad chapter 12: Art of the Americas Before 1300 and Stokstad chapter 23 Art of the Americas After 1300;
  2. Africa: Stokstad chapter 13 Art of Ancient Africa and Stokstad chapter 25 Art of Africa in the Modern Area and
  3. Pacific: finally, Stokstad chapter 24 Art of the Pacific Cultures.
You will be reading these chapters for very specific "things."
See the notes below.

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Test--see below--open the correct version.

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Watch some art history documentaries for extra credit.
There are two grades: one for time spent watching and one for the quality of your Cornell notes. You must take Cornell notes to get any points at all.
Here are some titles that stream live from Netflix which might be of interest to you and which will help you to prepare for the AP Exam.
Remember, there is quite a bit of modern art that deals with issues of sexuality, etc, so if you are watching a documentary and you think "ugh" just stop watching it! There is quite a bit else to watch!
 
Did you know that one Netflix login can be used on three different computers--so you could maybe "borrow" a login from a friend. The friend can change the password later...so he/she doesn't have to worry about you mooching forever!  :)
 
 
Related to the reading you need to do this week:
  • Cracking the Maya Code
  • Ghosts of Machu Picchu: Nova
  • Lost Kingdoms of Africa
Ancient Art
  • Cave of Forgotten Dreams
  • Nova: Lost Treasures of Tibet
  • Egypt: Engineering an Empire
  • National Geographic: Egypt: Secrets of the Pharaohs
  • Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
  • Pompeii: Back from the Dead
Architecture and Engineering
  • Ken Burns' America: Brooklyn Bridge
  • Modern Marvels: Brooklyn Bridge
  • Modern Marvels: Eiffel Tower
  • Eames: The Architect and The Painter
  • Manufactured Landscapes
  • (Edward Burtynsky: Manufactured Landscapes)
Art from the 1800’s
  • John James Audubon: Drawn From Nature
  • Ken Burns' America: Thomas Hart Benton
  • Great Artists Two with Tim Marlow (whatever we have not watched)
  • The Impressionists (whatever we have not watched)
  • The Rape of Europa (chronicles 12 years of the Nazis' pillaging works of art throughout Europe and the international effort to locate, protect and return millions of valuable treasures)
Modern and 21st Century Art
  • Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century (seasons one through five) stream live
  • Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies

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In Stokstad, read about Louis Sullivan, Frederick Law Olmstead (Stokstad, 1052-1055), Frank Loyd-Wright
(Stokstad 1085-1086, 1116), and Le Corbusier (Stokstad, 1095-1096),
 -- take notes on all four architects--continue to learn the slides.
 
In class, you should have completed the notes that were passed out--these will be collected for a completion grade on Wednesday along with the finished "The Shock of the New" notes.
 
See below for an electronic copy of these notes.

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For today's class--right this instant--see the attached!!!

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Saturday Scholars for 24 March 2012 is CANCELLED!
Ms. Bronwyn is exhausted and needs a break.
 
Read to the bottom of page 1085 in Stokstad. Takes notes!!!
I will collect the Picasso notes at the end of class on Monday--don't lose them!
Review the attached slides. More are coming.

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Saturday Scholars for 24 March 2012 is CANCELLED!
Ms. Bronwyn is exhausted and needs a break.

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Read pages 1058-1072 in Stokstad--chapter 28: The Rise of Modernism in Europe and North America.
You need to understand:
Art Nouveau --Gaudi and Klimt
The Fauves --Matisee and Derain
Expressionism -- Kollowitz and Schiele
Der Blaue Reiter --Kandinsky, Marc and Klee
and Brancusi
Next Saturday Scholars: 24 March 2012 --we will really DIG into Modernism.
 
There will be several chapters assigned over spring break.
  1. Africa: Stokstad chapter 12: Art of the Americas Before 1300 and Stokstad chapter 23 Art of the Americas After 1300;
  2. Indigenous America: Stokstad chapter 13 Art of Ancient Africa and Stokstad chapter 25 Art of Africa in the Modern Area and
  3. Pacific: finally, Stokstad chapter 24 Art of the Pacific Cultures.
You will be reading these chapters for very specific "things."

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Write a comparison peice--see the attached slides to find out which comparison you have been assigned.
There are two comparisons that are not assigned to anyone--if you would like to "jump ship" and do nos. 4 or no. 15 -- you may--or you MUST write about the one you have been assigned. No "stealing" any other numbers....
 
You will turn this typed piece of work in on Thursday, 22 March 2012.
It is part of your test grade, so do your best work!

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Tuesday, 20 March 2012 (a 2/4/6 day) we have reservations for the Getty Center again--but this time, we will have a better LUNCH!!! and we will have a self-guided (headphones in ears) tour. You can explore and review for the BIG AP TEST on Tuesday, 8 May 2012.

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I wrote an essay using one of the sets of slides. Writing the essay took me a while, so I decided that you will write only one. I would rather that you write one well than two poorly. I will show you my model, before we start writing. The slides remain unchanged. I have assigned you a set of slides. You will know which comparison is yours, because you will find your name...the comparisons were randomly assigned: I counted you off on my roster. You may use your notes. You may use the book in class. I am hoping that you write something truly magnificent.
There will be a similar essay on the test on Friday.
 
 
 
In class on Tuesday, you will write two on-demand essays--two finely crafted paragraphs--in which you will compare works of art. You may use your notes.
This weekend you need to prepare for these essays by gathering raw material about each of the works.
We need to practice writing about what we see. We need to practice connecting the assertions we make to the visual evidence in the image.
The work we did in class today was a model of the type of notes you should be taking on each work of art.
 
Below you will find the slides as well as the notes (which are quite simple).
 
The final exam on this chapter will probably be Friday, 16 March 2012--so keep working on your slide identifications.

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Can you make an argument about each of these slides?
I know--too many slides--but can you?

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How would you do on these two different quizzes?
See what you think?

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Please review the slides from today's quiz. Eventually, you will need to know the title, artist and the rough date.
Please review the Toulouse Lautrec slides.
Please review the Rodin slides.
We are going to have a claims quiz on Wednesday in class. You will be able to talk with people to work out ideas, but you will need to be able to write very specifically and articulately about several works of art.
 
We are also heading toward Post-Impressionism: Van Gogh, Cezanne, Seurat, and Gauguin.

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Study the slides below.
Be able to identify the artist.
Make sure you review the major works of artists in Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism--so for example, if I showed you The Grand Odalisque--you would be able to write: "Ingres."
 
Make sure that you can also link a characteristic of Impressionism to an image. For example, if I showed you Claude Monet’s Wheatstacks, Snow Effect, Morning (1891), you would be able to assert that this work best exemplifies the Impressionists’ interest in representing the particular quality of light at a specific moment. You be able to further explain that this characteristic is evident in both Monet’s title and the way that he has attempted to represent the quality of early morning light. Shadows slant across the snowy ground, indicating that the sun is not yet at its apex. The light is muted and seems hued with the colors of sunrise.

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Finish reading chapter 27.
Learn the slides below.

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Read and understand French Naturalism and Realism  and read about Manet (Stokstad 1009-1021).
There will be a writing quiz on Friday in class.
Make sure you understand the concept of Japonisme.
 

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Read Stokstad pgs 1018-1029: Impressionism.
Think deep thoughts; takes notes.
Study the slides below. Be ready.

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Start reading chapter 27 in Stokstad pags 980-1018.
Skim pgs 988 (Sculpture) through pg 1009.
Start reading carefully again when you get to French Naturalism.
You don't need to read about Manet yet on page 1018.
 

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UNIT TEST ON CHAPTERS 19 and 26.
 
Art History Field Trips
 
Tuesday, 20 March 2012 (a 2/4/6 day) we have reservations for the Getty Center again--but this time, we will have a better LUNCH!!! and we will have a self-guided (headphones in ears) tour. You can explore and review for the BIG AP TEST on Tuesday, 8 May 2012.
 
Saturday, 21 April 2012 (after spring break), we go to the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park (very Watteau!) for a docent lead your on AMERICAN ART--which should help fill in the gaps right before the BIG AP TEST on Tuesday, 8 May 2012.
 

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Yes, there will be a quiz: artist identifications from the "Genre" slides and as well as the Neoclassical and Romantic Portraits.
Anything Rococo, Neoclassical (including painting and architecture), as well as any history painting is up for grabs. So far there are 39 questions--I am not done yet. The lion's share is review.
 
Read and review the sections in Stokstad that focus on Genre painting, Science painting, Portraits, and Romanticism: pags 959-961 and 964-965.
 
I WOULD REVIEW THE SLIDES BELOW.
If you are absent, make sure that you make up this quiz.

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For class on Wednesday:
  • review Rococo
  • review your notes about “Academies and Academy Exhibitions”
  • make sure that you read carefully about Neo Classicism and the Classical revival in Architecture and Landscape (Stokstad pages 952-957, 961-964, 966-976).
  1. Richard Boyle
  2. Andrea Palladio
  3. Benjamin West
  4. Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun
  5. Jacques-Louis David
  6. John Trumbull
  7. Thomas Jefferson
  8. John Singleton Copley

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This weekend start reading Stokstad chapter 26 (pages 936-977) in your text: 18th Century Art in Europe and North America
Ultimately, you are responsible for images
26-1, 26-9, 26-10, 26-11, 26-12, 26-13, 26-21,
26-22, 26-23, 26-26, 26-27, 26-32, 26-33, 26-35,
26-37, 26-38, 26-44, 26-46, 26-48, 26-49, 26-54, 26-56 -- YAHOOOOOO!!!!!!!
And some others of course.....
 
However for Monday, 30 January, make sure that you
  • read page 944 “Academies and Academy Exhibitions” carefully,
  • you understand the chracteristics of Rococo Style
  • and are well-versed in these artists:
1. Jean Antoine Watteau
2. Francois Boucher
3. Jean-Honore Fragonard
4. Jean-Simeon Chardin
5. Antonio Canova
 
See attached for notes and slides.

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Prepare the second comparison worksheet using the slides posted below.
In class on Thursday, you will write.
You will be allowed to use your worksheet and the images.
 
See below for the worksheet and slides.
Remember, if you choose to focus on the landscapes--choose two--there are three, but choose two.

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On Saturday 4 February 2012 we will have our first Saturday Scholars of the semester!

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In class on Tuesday, there will be a slide identificaiton quiz based on the file below.
We will spend the rest of the class working on writing--there wil be a lot of direct instruction. Come ready to work hard.

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1. Two typed paragraphs--double spaced about 250 words long. See questions and images below.
Put each answer on a separate sheet, because I will grade them separately.
File is called:  Baroque Quiz comparison Velasquez _ Van Eyck spring 2012
 
Thank you Imani for the head up! :)
 
2. Study the La Tour, Caravaggio, Velasquez, and Bernini slides.
Be able to tell the difference between a Carvaggio and a La Tour--be able to explain the difference.
Be able to WRITE about how a Caravaggio painting exemplifies formal Baroque characteristics.
So there will be a straight slide id and a writing piece.
 
Study up on Bernini.
We will discuss Bernini and Velasquez in class on Wednesday.
We will "do" Rembrandt on Friday.

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Prepare Velazquez and Carravaggio for class.
Be able to identify slides and to write about each as a Baroque artist.
 
Make sure that you read the handouts.

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Read chapter nineteen about Baroque Art. Use the notes below to guide you.
 
You need to understand:
  1. how baroque architecture (interior and exterior) looks different from Alberti or Palladio because????
  2. what distinguishes a Caravaggio
  3. how to know if it is Bernini
  4. how to connect Velasqeuz to Hals through the use of brushwork
  5. why calling a womman "Rubenseque" is an insult 
  6. how Rembrandt's use of light is similar to Caravaggio's but completely different
  7. and why Vermeer should make us all stand still in our shoes and weep because we are so overcome by the beauty of his work--and then weep again when your innocence is crushed and you find out that Vermeer--yes Vermeer--cheated -- camera obscura...all will be explained in class.
Those are the big seven.
 
Check out the slides below. Review them. LEARN THINGS. Be ready to display your knowledge.
 

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How are the tenets of a religion articulated?
 
What does the body express?
 
How is power constructed?
 
Perspective. How does the artist try to create "space" with the frame of the image?

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The tests are below--MAKE SURE YOU CHOOSE THE ONE THAT MACTHES YOUR TEST SHEET!
Or you will get a zero....

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We will review during Tuesday's class.
For the exam on Thursday, you are responsible for chapters 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, and 22.
The slide identification part of the exam will require you to know the title, artist, period, and medium.
You are expected to be able to discuss issues of patronage, religion, politics, the intended audience, the intended function of the work, as well as the work's medium.
 
Start working your way through ALL the slides that have been posted on this site.

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Saturday Scholars--massive review for final exam plus LOADS of extra credit....

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Read chapter 8 in Stokstad--Islamic Art.

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Read chapter 20 "Art of India after 1100" FIRST.
Read chapter 9 "Art of India before 1100" second--use the notes and push through this chapter...DON"T GET BODDGED DOWN IN ALL THE DETAIL.
 
 

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Read chapter 21 in Stokstad; complete the notes.
Use the questions in the notes to guide you so that you do not get bogged down unecessarily in asoteric detail.

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Read chapter 10 "Chinese Art before 1280"
See attached notes.
You are responsible for these four images:
 
1. 10-1 Soldiers, from the mausoleum of Emperor Shihuangdi, Lintong, Shaanxi
Qin dynasty, c. 210 BCE
 
2. 10-16 Nanchan Temple, Wutaishan, Shanxi
Tang dynasty, 782 CE
 
3. 10-18 attributed to Emperor Huizong
detail of Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk
Northern Song Dynasty, early 12th century CE
handscroll, ink and colors on silk
 
4. 10-19 Fan Kuan
Travelers among Mountains and Streams
Northern Song Dynasty, early 11th century CE
hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk
 
See this link for an interesting podcast:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/9mtCv5mCQ-iz_PRF2p0phw

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Read chapters 11 and 22 in Stokstad--Japanese Art. The chapters are fairly short and the change of pace will refresh your eyes! No more Virgins getting Annunciationed for a couple of chapters.....
See below for notes.
See below for images--you are responsible for memorizing these images: there are not that many!!!

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Enormous slide indentification quiz with multiple choice claim match.
Everything in chapters 17 and 18 in UP FOR GRABS!!!!

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Massive slide identifucation test on chapters 17 and 18 with Unknowns and Claims.
Possibly, some multiple choice.....

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In class on Wednesday, we will finally deal with The Dream of Constantine question.
We will "do" Bosch and Bruegel completely.
We will have a little fun with Durer--brief fun....
Make sure that you study the attached Bruegel and Bosch slides and know the El Grecos in your textbook.
Yes, there will be a slide id quiz on Bruegel and Bosch and the El Grecos.

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AP Art History: Renaissance Art in 16th Century Europe
Chapter Eighteen: Assignment #1
By next class—Monday, 7 November 2011—read pages 686-710 in Stokstad.
Images
• You are responsible for images 18-2, 18-3, 18-4, 18-5, 18-10, 18-11, 18-13, 18-15, 18-16, 18-23, 18-26.
• Make sure that you know the title, the artist, the medium, and the significance of each of these works of art.
“Significance” should be articulated in one or two sentences. I am not expecting a full blown paragraph discussion. (This is definitely quiz territory.)
Special Sections
• Read page 690 “The Vitruvian Man” carefully.
• Read page 702 “Saint Peter’s Basilica” carefully.
• Read page 704 “The Renaissance Palace Facade” carefully; learn the terms.
You may completely ignore these terms: quoins, piano nobile, loggia.
• Read page 707 “Painting on Canvas.” A new technique to go along with all the others
I expect you to know.
New Terms:
1. chiaroscuro
2. cartoon
3. coffered
4. contrapposto
5. motif
6. Greek Cross
7. Pietas

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Review these Donatello slides. We will try and make sense of him as an artist.
Review the Ghiberti slides about the Sacrifice of Isaac. Understand why one panel is "better." Be ready for a quiz.
Check out the long, long, long series of slides about which I expect you will be able to make an argument.....

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Prepare for the Brunelleschi and Alberti quiz. See quiz slides and questions below.
 
Review the Brunelleschi and Ghiberti slides--both sets.
 
Review the van der Goes and Fabriano slides.
 
Read abot Donatello please. We are going to study him after we finish with Fabriano and van der Goes.

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For Friday’s class, please review the sections in Stokstad that focus on Pisano (pages 597-600), Ghiberti (660-662), and Donatello (660-665).

Please also read the handout about Renaissance architecture and review the notes from class.

Be ready for a quiz on the images below.

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Friday--from 2:45 to 4:00--  Medici: The Birth of a Dynasty: come and watch a documentary about the wicked, wicked Medici's who schemed and plotted and who comissioned the Florence Duomo: drama and a review of Brunelleschi

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For Wednesday’s class, please review the sections in Stokstad (pages 650-660) that have to do with Architecture in Italy—pay careful attention to Brunelleschi and Alberti.
 
Be ready for a slide quiz on the images below and on the images from
Masaccio, Fra Angelico, Piero della Francesca, Ghirlandaio....

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For Monday’s class, review and memorize the slides and artists that were presented on Tuesday and Thursday of the past week. See below for the slides.
 

Please complete all twenty-eight questions in the notes that were handed out. You should be able to easily answer all these questions. If not, start reading Stokstad. See below for an electronic copy of these notes. All these questions are “fair game” starting on Monday.
 

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See attached slides...yes..this is the quiz....and yes...there are mystery slides at the end...just imagine what I will ask about the last five slides!!!
Yes--those will be the 10 point "probing" questions.

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Review the Schongauer and Pollaiuolo slides.
See the slides from the quiz in class; I also included the answer sheet which has ALL the probong questions on it.
 

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We will continue with the presentations.
 
Make sure that you review Limbourg, Sluter, Broederlam, and Campin notes from Tuesday's class. There will be a quiz based on the quizzes X and B as well as the notes from today.
Expect slides and PROBING questions. No multiple choice.
 
See below for the slides for the presentations.
See below for the quizzes X & B.
 
You all did a great job today! I really enjoyed it!

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Here are the slides from the big test with answers.
On 15 October 2011 we have a Saturday Scholars--part of the extra credit will be slide identifications of these same slides.
So study up!!!  :)

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Presentations begin on Tuesday.
 
See below for slides from Friday's class as well as notes and the presentation assignment AS WELL AS THE SLIDES YOU WILL USE FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
 
Thursday, 6 October 2011 2:45 until 4:00 FIRST EXTRA CREDIT: Paolo Ucello
Tuesday, 11 October 2011 2:45 until 4:00 EXTRA CREDIT
Saturday, 15 October 2011 EXTRA CREDIT SESSION: Leonardo daVinci and other stuff!!!
 
Quick quiz on Tuesday to test your background knowledge--read pages 616-631 in Stokstad.

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***We will not be ready for the HUGE test on Thursday--we will push it back to Monday (Early Medieival, Romanesque, and Gothic).
 
On Tuesday, 20 September 2011 we will look at Cimabue and Giotto and if there is time Pisano.
On Thursday, we will "glance" at book arts (if I can find some decent slides!!) and Pisano if there is not time on Tuesday. On Thursday, we will review and take a look at what sort of HUGE test you could expect.
 
Study these slides for an identification quiz on Tuesday and as always there might be "old" slides for extra credit (I can't help myself!!)
 
Also, here is a terrific little Gothic Architecture quiz I made......lots of pictures...check it out....you might see some of it again very, very, very soon!

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No quiz on Friday. I promise.
 
We will look at Pisano and the the Florence Cathedral.
We will discuss altarpieces and Duccio and Simone Martini and Pietro Lorenzetti and Giotto and Cimabue--all panels and altarpieces.
We will discuss frescoes--Lorenzetti and Giotto on Tuesday, 20 September 2011.
Expect a three-chapter, 105 minute test on Thursday, 22 September 2011.
Slide identifications (title, artist, period) and short essay questions.

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No quiz on Wednesday--I PROMISE.
I will look at your notes to make sure that you finished them.....remember, do all the questions on the two separate Cornell notes handouts about Gothic Architecture: one is three pages and one is double-sided (see below if you feel stumped). I don't care if you split up the notes and assign people different bits--just make sure you understand the answers or you will be hating life when I ask you a really, really interesting essay question.

I am sick and can't stop coughing.
I am worn out--so you are the beneficiaries of the fact that I am a wimp, and do not have the energy to dream up any really interesting quiz for Wednesday.

Tomorrow, we will probably watch a movie on Cathedrals so I can save my voice and we will look at some slides about Chartres.

We will take a look at panel painting and frescos on Friday.
So start reading in that direction if you have time.

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AP Art History: Gothic Art
Read chapter 16, pages 554-613.
 
You are responsible for images 16-1 through 16-28; 16-34, 16-52, 16-55 through 16-72.
• Read page 559 “The Black Death” carefully.
• Study and read page 561 “Rib Vaulting” carefully”—know the terms.
• Study and read page 568 and 569 “Gothic Church” and “Stained Glass Windows” carefully”—know the terms.
• Read page 586 “Master Builders” carefully.
• Study page 587 “Gothic Castle”—know the terms.
• Study and read page 602 “Panel Painting” carefully”—know the terms.
• Study and read page 604 “Buon Fresco” carefully”—know the terms.
 
New Terms:
1. altarpiece
2. cames
3. colonnettes
4. flying buttress
5. grisaille
6. mullions
7. punchwork
8. rood screens
9. tiercerons
10. tracery (bar tracery)
11. trefoils (quatrefoils)
12. triforium
 
We will take a look at Gothic Architecture versus Romanesque Architecture on Monday in class.
 
Take a look at the notes below.
 
Also Ken Follet's Pillars of the Earth is a marvelous novel about building a Gothic cathedral. My art history professor, Bob Calkins, first recommended it to me.
Also, consider reading The Archer's Tale by Bernard Cornwell. This adventure novel is set during the Hundred Year' War. I learned a great deal about battle tactic and the long bow versus the cross-bow. Go figure!

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  • See the slides below.
  • Plan on a retest of Romanesque architecture terms on Thursday with a great deal of extra credit from Tuesday's (today's) slides.
  • We will be looking at the Bayeux Tapestry on Thursday, so expect a quiz on the Bayeux Tapestry on Monday, 12 September. 
    Be able to answer these questions:
1. Who is the artist?
2. What is the date of this work?
3. What artist or art has influenced this artist as
he/she created this piece of art?
4. What medium has the artist used to create
this work of art?
5. What do we notice about the form (the line, the color, the texture, the spatial attributes, the composition)?
6. What do we notice about the content?
7. How do politics affect the production of this work of art?
8. How does patronage affect the production of this work of art?
9. Who is the intended audience of this work of art?
 
All these questions are in your Bayeux Tapestry notes on the first and second pages--notes that I know you have in the AP Art History section of your well-organized binder...but if not: I uploaded the electronic copy below.
  • Start reading the next chapter: Gothic Art (chapter 16) this coming weekend.

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1. Read the two handouts that you received about Medieval Life and Romanesque Architecture.
2. Make sure you have finished reading the entire chapter on Romanesque Art (chapter 15).
3. Plan on a retest of Romanesque architecture terms on Thursday with a great deal of extra credit from Tuesday's (today's) slides.
4. We will be looking at the Bayeux Tapestry on Thursday, so expect a quiz on the Bayeux Tapestry on Monday, 12 September.
5. We will start reading the next chapter: Gothic Art (chapter 16) this coming weekend.

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Holy Reliquary St. Benedict!!!!
I just wrote an extra credit quiz on monks and relics.......see you in the a.m.

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EXTRA CREDIT:
This weekend is a long weekend and I know you will be bored and missing AP Art History class.
So watch one of these:
Modern Marvels: Gothic Cathedrals (History Channel)
Chartres Cathedral: A Sacred Geometry (Netflix)
Nova: Building the Great Cathedrals (Netflix)
Cathedral  (Netflix)
Castle  (Netflix)
 
I will pick up from the library this afternoon
  1. Nova: Building the Great Cathedrals
  2. Cathedral
  3. Castle
So you could check one of the above three out from me.
Here's the deal: you need to convince me that you will watch it with one other person--and you must take at least a page of Cornell notes while you watch. The quality of the Cornell notes will determine the amount of extra credit that you earn.
 
Think of it this way--watching the documentary is another way of studying.
 
Start work in earnest on chapter fifteen: Romanesque Art. See below for the assignment sheet.
 
Also--see below for electronic copies of all the notes.....yes, it is a little overwhelming despite the fact that it is meant to be helpful....
 
In class on Thursday you will have an INDIVIDUAL quiz on
  • monks and orders (see the notes on Reliquaries and Pilgrimages as well as the notes on Monks and Monasteries)
  • relics and reliquaries (see the notes on Reliquaries and Pilgrimages)
  • pilgrimage routes and places--as well as their relationship to relics and financial prosperity (see page 518--read it again)
  • terms for Romanesque architecture--be able to match the part with the word
    I made you a fairly extensive visual study guide--see below
I in turn will be tested on the word "theoretical" --to see if I can spell it and the word "tsunami" to see if I can pronounce it and on x+2x= to see if I remember the implied 1 in front of the "x." I think I will have a t-shirt made with a detail from the image of 
Healing of the Man Possessed by Demons from the Magdeburg Ivories with the caption "C'est moi." Okay--even if you groaned, you just got an art history joke...you are already so very, very, very smart!!!!

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By the by: I just finished making the quiz--it is a beauty and worth 140 points. It is 6:23 p.m. on Wednesday.....
I would study if I were you--just saying.....drink some coffee and go for it.
Use the slides; check the notes.

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Below you will find the slides that we looked at together in class, as well as the separate file of slides that you are responsible for--yes, there will be a image quiz with thinking questions on Tuesday.
 
As far as the "quiz slides file" goes:
  • If the information is beside the slide image, you must remember it.
  • The extra information in the "notes" section is for you to help you make sense of the slide or to simply have the complete information.
  • The titles of many of these slides is the same as the story the slide tells.
  • If a slide has no image but is FULL OF A QUESTION, then assume I require you to know the answer.

    Pretty straightforward. Remember--if you study in bits and pieces all year, you will not have to cram for forty-eight straight hours before the AP test--and who can do that anyways....oh, I do know someone in the class that can do that...but I can't.....so you shouldn't.
On Tuesday will we look at crosses and a monastery and one church.
The Romanesque is coming; I would start reading.

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Review the slides from class.
 
Also, memorize the slides to study for the quiz. It is a separate file--you will be able to tell because of the title and the fact that there are fewer slides.
 
Finish the notes from class; all material in the notes is fair game for the quiz on Thursday.
 
On Thursday, we will look at Bishop Bernward's Doors and also at the Magdeburg ivories as well as at some crosses. Be ready to hear more stories from the bible--you need to learn these stories so that you will know what is going on in the works of art.

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AP Art History: Early Medieval Art
This weekend—for Tuesday, 23 August 2011--read pages 484-513 in your text.
 
You are responsible for images 14-1, 14-4, 14-9, 14-15, 14-16, 14-18, 14-22, 14-23, 14-24, 14-25, 14-26, 14-27, 14-28, 14-30, 14-29.
 
These sections (headings) matter most:
• The Middle Ages
• The British Isles and Scandinavia
• Carolingian Europe
• Scandinavia: The Vikings
• Ottonian Europe
 
You are responsible for ALL terms in bold.
Do not worry about page 487: The Northern Deities. Read it, but just for fun. Do not memorize.
 
Study map on page 486 carefully.
Read page 490 The Medieval Scriptorium carefully.
Read 508-509 but do not get worried about memorizing it. Just read it over and think about it.
Read 513 but do not get worried about memorizing it. Just read it over and think about it.
EXTRA CREDIT:
Watch The Name of the Rose. Come and chat with me and get your credit. The movie is rated “R.”
 
Make sure that it is okay with your parent that you watch this movie….the point of watching them is that you learn about the middle ages. There will be lots of other movies to watch if you don't see this one. Don't stress...

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Review our work from class on Moday: "Beginnings Do you understand some of the basic terms?"
Below you will find the slides that you must memorize and be able to discuss—to write about. The list of slides is much shorter than the many slides you saw in class. I uploaded the other slides (the very, very long slide show) just in case someone wanted to see them again.
  • Be able to identify the artist and title (not the date).
  • Be able to answer the question that accompanies each slide.

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Stokstad (the yellowish text): Read pages 18-23--be prepared for a quiz in which you will demonstrate that you have internalized the information.
 
Also: see below for the slides from Thursday's class--in case you wish to review them.

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Here are the slides we will look at in class on Monday...enjoy!

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Read pages 604-605 in History of Modern Art.
Read 255-259 in The Shock of the New.
Read the handouts on Cornell and Nevelson.
 
Study the slides below. Be prepared for a quiz.
 
Be able to thoughtfully discuss the work of art
  • Who is the artist?
  • What is the date of this work?
  • What artist or art has influenced this artist as he/she created this piece of art?
  • Can we situate this piece of art in a larger movement? Which one? Why?
  • What medium has the artist used to create this work of art?
  • What do we notice about the form (the line, the color, the texture, the spatial attributes, the composition)?
  • What do we notice about the content?
  • What do we notice about the style?
Be able to explain whether any of these issues influenced the artist as he created the wrok of art.
  • class
  • religion
  • politics
  • patronage (who commissioned the work?)
  • the intended audience
  • gender
  • the intended function of the work
  • ethnicity

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Etcell and Jessica, please complete a carefully written typed response to Long Answer #1. See below.
Etcell: please start studying the "late" Renaissance slides from the slide identification test. Start with slide question #57 and work your way to slide question #101.
Jessica: please review all of them.