Test Format
One page of 2 point questions (best seven of ten count)
One page image analysis (there are 8 images, you pick 4 to discuss)
One page with three questions about contemporary art and photography.
One page image analysis (there are 8 images, you pick 4 to discuss)
One page with three questions about contemporary art and photography.
Study sheets and memory aid
If you submit (before the test) a lovingly created study sheet (one side of one page, handwritten) that covers the material we have covered from midterm until now, you will get a small bonus!
Contemporary artist memory aid: Use this for notes about three contemporary artists presented on class Padlet. Can use your own artist. Can use this during the test. All your own work.
Missing your midterm test or study sheet from the midterm? I have some in my office and will be there 12-1 and at 4:10pm on the 9th (Thursday).
Contemporary artist memory aid: Use this for notes about three contemporary artists presented on class Padlet. Can use your own artist. Can use this during the test. All your own work.
Missing your midterm test or study sheet from the midterm? I have some in my office and will be there 12-1 and at 4:10pm on the 9th (Thursday).
15 Key Images
The Venus of Willendorf (Prehistory) The Book of the Dead (Egypt) Ashurbanipal Killing a Lion (Mesopotamia) Kritios Boy (Greece) Augustus of Primaporta (Rome) Notre Dame de la Belle-Verrière (Middle Ages) Michelangelo’s God Creating Adam (Renaissance) Holbein’s The Ambassadors (Northern Renaissance) Gentileschi’s Judith and Her Maidservant w/ Head of Holofernes (Italian Baroque) (check Northern Baroque too) Fragonard's The Swing (Rococo) David’s The Oath of the Horatii (Neoclassicism) Gericault’s The Raft of the Medusa (Romanticism) Manet’s Dejeuner sur L'herbe (Realism) Cameron’s Venus Chiding Cupid and Removing His Wings (19th C Photography) Cassatt’s Little Girl in a Blue Armchair (Impressionism) All the “isms” that follow! Post-Impressionism, Early Expressionism, Symbolism Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, German Expressionism, De Stijl (Mondrian), Dada and Surrealism, Avant Garde Photography, Abstract Expressionism, 20th Century Sculpture, Colour Field Painting, Also look at a variety of kinds of 20th C photography: Straight, Surrealist, Documentary, Landscape, Scientific, Portrait, War, Social Issues/Outsiders *Make sure you also look at the works that are discussed as well as the key image. For example, for Southern Baroque you want to know about Bernini’s Sculptures, or, for Northern Baroque, know the difference between portrait/landscape/genre/still life |
Key ImagesUseful VocabularySympathetic magic, nomadic/sedentary, era, culture, monotheistic, polytheistic, humanistic, idealized, realism, propaganda, Baroque, Renaissance, Portraiture (in painting/sculpture), Venus, hieratic scale, Paleolithic/Neolithic, iconography, symbolism, contrapposto, Annunciation, pareidolia, BCE, CE, history vs. prehistory, coprolite, Venus, Anno Domini, Mesopotamia, fertile crescent, pictograph, Pompeii, embroidery, tapestry, mosaic, fresco, bas relief, modelling vs. sculpting, engraving/woodcut, linear perspective, aerial perspective, tenebrism, sfumato, oil paint, painterly, dissection/anatomy, orientalism, mimesis, Dageurreotype, Brownie camera, exposure times, pictorialism vs. straight photography, plein air painting, surreal, abstract, expressionist, form&content, complementary colours.
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A few review questions:
List four reasons why prehistoric humans made representations of people.
Explain two different new approaches to painting that critics hated. Try to explain why.
What changes in painting styles did the invention of photography prompt?
Why was the Renaissance called the Renaissance?
Compare paintings of people made before and after the invention of photography. Use examples.
Compare any painting made by a woman with any painting made by a man.
List four reasons why prehistoric humans made representations of people.
Explain two different new approaches to painting that critics hated. Try to explain why.
What changes in painting styles did the invention of photography prompt?
Why was the Renaissance called the Renaissance?
Compare paintings of people made before and after the invention of photography. Use examples.
Compare any painting made by a woman with any painting made by a man.
Quiz Yourself!
These were made by previous students. They have not been vetted. There might be some questionable questions here!
There are also some more quizzes on the Padlets for classes 06 and 07 you can check out.
There are also some more quizzes on the Padlets for classes 06 and 07 you can check out.
Amazing Orange Ancient Egypt!
Ancient Egypt Ancient Greece All Quizzes Lead to Rome! Middle Ages (10 Questions) More Middle Ages! Italian Renaissance School of Meredith: More Italian Renaissance! Northern Renaissance |
Here are some videos from when I taught this class remotely.
I have not looked at them since. You can take a look at them to see if they might be helpful, but don't judge us. We were all just doing our best during lockdown! (Sign into Teams to see them)
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