AP Art History Sister Lisa Perkowski [email protected] Summer Assignment Suggested Order of Completion 1. Read through “Art History Overview [student guide].PDF”​ to familiarize yourself with the learning objectives and common jargon used in this course. PART A: Readings & Illustrated Glossary (40 pts). During the following readings, make your ​ own ‘illustrated’ glossary in a notebook/sketchbook. The terms you list should build upon/show your understanding of those listed in the overview student guide glossary. Focus on what is less familiar to you. 2. Read Chapter 1 ​A Human Phenomenon​ from ​Exploring Art​ by Lazzari & Schlesier to familiarize yourself with definitions and categories of art. (19 pp.) 3. Read Chapter 2 ​The Language of Art & Architecture​ from ​Exploring Art​ by Lazzari & Schlesier to familiarize yourself and/or review the formal elements and principles of art and design. (28 pp.) 4. Read Chapter 3 ​Media​ from ​Exploring Art​ by Lazzari & Schlesier to broaden your knowledge of art media. (28 pp.) PART B: Research (40 pts.). Choose a medium of interest to you (e.g., painting, ​ sculpture, architecture, etc.). Using the Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/, find 2 artworks from 2 different time periods and ​ ​ ​ ​ geographic regions of the same medium. Learn about the works and complete the inquiry ​ ​ ​ ​ questions (as many as possible) listed below by researching descriptions about the works ​ and reading essays published by the MET for contextual information. Place research in ​ this document below. List specific references for each work. PART C: Venn Diagram (100 pts.). With the 2 works researched, compare and ​ contrast significant aspects their FORM, FUNCTION, CONTENT, & CONTEXT in a Venn Diagram. B. Research Access the Heilbrunn Timeline http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ through ‘essays’. Use the search categories to find works from different time and geographic periods. 2 Ex. ‘Sculpture’ search: Look for works with descriptions and contextual information in essays listed. Place Your Research Here Work of Art #1 (20 pts.) ● Image (1 pts.) ● Identification of work (4 pts.): ○ Title/Designation – name or standard description of the work ​ ○ Artist/Culture – individual and/or culture from which the work originated ​ ○ Date of Creation – time in which the work was created ​ 3 ○ Materials – ingredients and components used to create a work of art ​ ● Inquiry (15 pts.) ○ 1. What is it? ​ ​ ○ 2. Describe how it looks. ​ ​ ○ 3. What is it made of? ​ ​ ○ 4. How was it made? ​ ​ ○ 5. Who made it? ​ ​ ○ 6. Who commissioned it? ​ ​ ○ 7. When and where was it made? ​ ​ ○ 8. What was happening in the artist’s world when it was made? ​ ​ ○ 9. Who used it? How was it used? ​ ​ ○ 10. Who were its audiences? How did they respond to it? ​ ​ ○ 11. How long does it last? Is it long-lasting or ephemeral? ​ ​ ○ 12. What does it mean? ​ ​ ○ 13. What does it resemble? ​ ​ ○ 14. How is it distinctive? ​ ​ ○ 15. Who and what influenced it? ​ ​ ○ 16. Why (to all of the previous questions)? ​ ​ ● Sources Work of Art #2 (20 pts.) ● Image ● Identification of work: ○ Title/Designation – ​ ○ Artist/Culture – ​ ○ Date of Creation – ​ ○ Materials – ​ ● Inquiry ○ 1. What is it? ​ ​ ○ 2. Describe how it looks. ​ ​ ○ 3. What is it made of? ​ ​ ○ 4. How was it made? ​ ​ ○ 5. Who made it? ​ ​ ○ 6. Who commissioned it? ​ ​ ○ 7. When and where was it made? ​ ​ ○ 8. What was happening in the artist’s world when it was made? ​ ​ 4 ○ 9. Who used it? How was it used? ​ ​ ○ 10. Who were its audiences? How did they respond to it? ​ ​ ○ 11. How long does it last? Is it long-lasting or ephemeral? ​ ​ ○ 12. What does it mean? ​ ​ ○ 13. What does it resemble? ​ ​ ○ 14. How is it distinctive? ​ ​ ○ 15. Who and what influenced it? ​ ​ ○ 16. Why (to all of the previous questions)? ​ ​ ● Sources Venn Diagram (example) ___ AP Art History student guide Course Description Welcome to AP Art History. AP Art History is designed for the advanced student who has an interest in the study of history and art. Relationships between art and culture, the time and the society in which it was produced, facilitate a more complete understanding of both disciplines. Students learn to analyze the form and nature of works to distinguish the major historical developments in visual thought and expression. There are two major course goals for the students: academic and personal. The first is concerned with course content that offers a chronological survey of Global art with emphasis in the Western tradition. The course combines accepted historical techniques and procedures while also emphasizing the role of the artist and works of art in terms of style, context, and criticism. Below are the 12 academic course objectives. Course Objectives Big Idea 1: Artists manipulate materials and ideas to create an aesthetic object, act, or event. E.Q.: What is art and how is it made? Learning Objective 1.1: Students differentiate the components of form, function, content, and/or context of a work of art. Form Function Content Contextual examination + relationships between these components LO 1.2: Students explain how artistic decisions about art making shape a work of art. Materials & techniques –relate to form/context How artistic decisions affect form/function/content LO 1.3: Students describe how context influences artistic decisions about creating a work of art. How context, patronage, culture, technologies, etc. can impact artistic decisions. Identify information about the original context LO 1.4: Students analyze form, function, content, and/or context to infer or explain the possible intentions for creating a specific work of art. Generate inferences based on the above. Analyze form/function/content/context as evidence of artistic intent. Inferences/explanation about artistic intent may be supported from multiple perspectives. Big Idea 2: Art making is shaped by tradition and change. E.Q.: Why and how does art change? LO 2.1: Students describe features of tradition and/or change in single work of art or in a group of related works. Describe how a feature of a work of art is a tradition or change by providing contextual evidence. Description conveyed in terms of traditions (standards) and/or changes in F/F/C/style/aesthetic /artistic practices/mode of display. LO 2.2: Students explain how and why specific traditions and/or changes are demonstrated in a single work or group of related works. Also explain why a tradition and/or change is demonstrated in a single work of art or group of related works, supported by contextual evidence. LO 2.3: Students analyze the influence of a single work of art or group of related works on other artistic production. Analyze the influence of an artistic tradition or change. Identification of change + discussion of why it was influential + examples of other works that were influenced. Big Idea 3: Interpretations of art are variable. E.Q.: How do we describe our thinking about art? LO 3.1: Students identify a work of art. Title/designation Name of the artist/culture of origin Date of creation/period (basic) Materials described in APAH image set LO 3.2: Students analyze how formal qualities and/or content of a work of art elicit(s) a response. Explain how an artist’s application of formal elements and principles of design (formal qualities [identified correctly]) and/or the artist’s creation of content within a work of art elicit(s) a response from an audience. Use analysis to examine whether audience responses are perceptual, intellectual, kinesthetic, and/or emotional. Establish substantial connection between formal qualities and/or content of the work and audience response. LO 3:3: Students analyze how contextual variables lead to different interpretations of a work of art. Analyze how contextual variables lead to different interpretations of a work of art, which includes identifying each interpretation and explaining how it is related to contextual variables (time/place/culture/mode of display/audience). [analysis could compare original audience with museum audience today; i.e.: devotional object/reliquary] LO 3.4: Students justify attribution of an unknown work of art. Justify images not in image set to an artist, group, region, period, and/or culture by identifying similarities in form, function, content, style, and/or hand of the artist. Justify with comparison to a work included in the prescribed image set. LO 3.5: Students analyze relationships between works of art based on their similarities and differences. Comparative analysis (compare/contrast) Relevant detail provided; analyze features of each work as they relate to the other. GLOSSARY Aesthetic a type of human experience that combines perception, feeling, meaning making, and appreciation of qualities of produced and/or manipulated objects, acts, and events of daily life. Aesthetic experience motivates behavior and creates categories through which our experiences of the world can be organized. Artistic associations include self-defined groups, workshops, academies, and movements. Artistic traditions are norms of artistic production and artistic products. Artistic traditions are demonstrated through art-making processes (utilization of materials & techniques, modes of display), through interactions between works of art and the audience, and within the form and/or content of the work of art. Artistic changes are divergences from tradition in artistic choices demonstrated through art- making processes, through interactions between works of art and audience, and within form and/or content. Tradition and change in form and content may be described in terms of style. Audiences those who interact with the work as participants, facilitators, and/or observers. Audience characteristics include gender, ethnicity, race, age, socioeconomic status, beliefs, and values. Audience groups may be contemporaries, descendants, collectors, scholars, gallery/museum visitors, and other artists. Content of a work of art consists of interacting, communicative elements of design, representation, and presentation within a work of art.