Advanced Placement Art History

Mr. Williams

2007 - 2008

A.P. History of Art, an elective open to juniors and seniors, is a challenging, college-level course going beyond the art history curriculum taught in Humanities courses.  You will acquire the tools enabling you to be conversant about any piece of art you encounter for the rest of your life, mastering how to approach a work of art, the vocabulary and analytical methods with which to discuss it, and the knowledge of how it fits into the general sweep of art historical periods and styles.  We will also work toward achieving an understanding of the interconnectedness of art with other aspects of world culture.  By giving “voice” to works by lesser-known artists and from unfamiliar cultures, we will aim to develop as broad as possible a perspective about and appreciation for both European-based and non-Western art. You will receive the preparation enabling you to score well on the A.P. exam, earning you credit at most of the colleges and universities in the United States.

Attendance and completion of assigned readings are required in this course and are prerequisites for taking the Advanced Placement Art History exam.  Grades will be based on major tests (50%) and quizzes over assigned readings (50%).  Students who must miss class are expected to take the scheduled reading quiz IN ADVANCE, as there will be NO MAKEUP QUIZZES over reading assignments; however, students will earn one dropped grade for each Wednesday lunch-time session of LUNCHIES Art History Fun and Games.  Makeup tests will be administered during lunch on Tuesdays.  It is the responsibility of the students to arrange with me to retake any missed major test, and the makeup test must be completed by the end of the second Tuesday makeup session.

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Extra Credit Opportunities: 

Attendance on class field trips and successful completion of field trip assignments

will earn a 100 major test grade. 

Sources for readings:

·          Adams, Laurie Schneider, A History of Western Art, 1997.

·          Art of Our Century. The Chronicle of Western Art 1900 to the Present, 1989. (AC)

·          Honour, Hugh and John Fleming. The Visual Arts: A History, 4th ed., 1995. (H&F)

·          Janson, H.W. History of Art, 5th ed., 1995. (J)

·          Krull, Kathleen. Lives of the Artists, 1995.

·          Rosenblum, Robert, and H.W. Janson, 19th Century Art, 1984. (19C)

·          Stokstad, Marilyn.  Art History.  1995.

·          Strickland, Carol.  The Annotated Mona Lisa, 1992.

·          Tansey, Richard G. and Fred S. Kleiner. Gardner's Art Through the Ages, 10th ed., 1996. (G)

·          Wilkins, David G., Bernard Schultz, and Katheryn M. Linduff, Art Past, Art Present, 1997. (APAP)

·          + others as noted on syllabus

First Semester, 2007-2008

Issues to Explore

in class discussions and written assignments

during weeks 1 - 8:

1. Who are the patrons of religious art and architecture, and what impact do they have on its content and form? Does religious art look different in theocratic societies from non-theocratic ones?

2. How do artists communicate religious beliefs and concepts?  How do they differentiate between the natural and the supernatural?

3.  Is there universality in the ways human beings have expressed their spiritual beliefs through art?  Are there any features that art of all religions share?  Are there universal images permeating human religions like archetypes in mythology?

4. How can we recognize the art and architecture of a particular religion? 

5. Why are art and religion intimately connected throughout human history?  How does art serve the needs of religion?

6. What does the comparison of non-Western and Western art reveal about artistic patronage, practice, purpose, meaning, and style?

7. What sorts of things emerge as universals and which are more culturally specific?

8. Do artistic styles seem to follow the same kind of development in Asia as in Europe? 

9. Are the historical forces that shape African, Mesoamerican, and Asian artistic evolution markedly different from those affecting European art? 

10. Which artistic innovations do both the Western and non-Western worlds seem to have discovered independently and which did each have to learn from the other? 

Week 1   

Introduction to course and African art

      African PowerPoint Notes  

·        August 20: Historical Context and Analyzing Content

·        August 21: Library: Online Information; Creating Partners

·        August 22:  Reading quiz over "African Art:  The First Cubists," Strickland, 22-23; "African Art Casts a Spell on Artists," AC, 73; "Picasso's Demoiselles: Anarchism, Colonialism and Art as Exorcism," H&F, 720-721.

·        August 23:  Reading quiz over "Children and the Continuity of Life," "Initiation," "The Spirit World," Stokstad, 913-919.

·        August 24: Reading quiz over "Leadership," "Death and Ancestors," Stokstad, 919-924

Week 2

Mesoamerican Art; Nonwestern Art Major Test #1, Introduction to Hinduism

Mesoamerican PowerPoint Notes

·        August 27: We read 1-4 in class today, read 5-12 tonight for a quiz tomorrow over pages 1-12: Heres the link : Mesoamerican art, Gardner's 10th ed.. READ ONLY Pgs. 1 – 4.

·        August 28: Reading quiz over   Mesoamerican art, Gardner's (ON THE CD). READ ONLY PP 5 – 12.

·        August 29: Reading quiz over "The Birth of Huitzilopochtli" AND Mesoamerican art, Gardner's (ON THE CD) PP 13 – 15.

During the Lunchie we will view the film "Apocalypto".  You must bring THIS PERMISSION SLIP signed by your parent/guardian in order to watch the film. (Click the Permission Slip Link Above).

·        August 30:   No Quiz: Mesoamerican Art PowerPoint and Writing/Testing Strategies

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Due SEPTEMBER 17th:  NONWESTERN MAJOR TEST #1: 

AFRICAN AND MESOAMERICAN ART

HERE ARE THE LINKS THAT WILL

HELP YOU FOR YOUR TAKE-HOME TEST THAT IS DUE

MONDAY SEPT 17th.

•     African Notes 1

•     African Notes 2

•     Meso-American Notes 1

•     Aztec Notes 2 (This is also the reading you should be prepared to discuss in class on Thursday, Sept 13th which can also be useful in writing your test paper.)

•     Aztec Notes 3  This one is brand new and easy to read!

•     Copy of Test (In case you lost it!)

        AFTER THIS WEEK, WE WILL GET BACK ON TRACK REGARDING THIS SCHEDULE (IF OUR BOOKS COME IN THIS WEEK.)  SKIP TO WEEK #5 (shown below)  AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE THE READING QUIZZES AS SHOWN ON SEPT 17TH.

        Questions?  email me at williamse@phs.poteau.k12.ok.us  (I check this email quite often at home).

        Another site that you may want to keep is your upcoming books "companion web site" found HERE.

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Week 5

Egyptians and the Middle East

·        September 17:  Last weeks test is due when you walk into class on this day, Also:

        Reading Quiz over pre-dynastic, early dynastic and Old Kingdom Egyptian art, Gardner’s,  54 -68 (stop at "The Middle Kingdom")

        (I suggest downloading it first, then opening!)

·        September 18:  Reading Quiz over Middle and New Kingdom Egyptian art, Gardner’s,  68-84 (start at “The Middle Kingdom”)

·        September 19: Reading quiz over “Eternal Egypt,” Doug Stewart, Smithsonian, June, 2001.

·        September 20: Reading quiz over Sumerian, Akkadian, Neo-Sumerian, and Babylonian art, Gardner’s, 30 – 44 (stop at “Hittite Art”)

·        September 21: Reading quiz over Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, Persian, and Sasanian art, Gardner’s, 45 – 53.

Here is the download of the art concepts many of you wanted:

ART CONCEPTS

and the

Elements and Principles of Art Power Point Show

(both of these links should help with the test) .

Here is the Classroom Powerpoint for this test for you diehard students :)

MIDDLE EAST POWERPOINT

Week 11

The Aegean and Classical Greece

·        September 24: Reading quiz over Aegean Art, Janson

·        September 25: Reading quiz over Early and High Classical Statuary in your Gardners book, and Late Classical Sculpture (in your book)

·        September 26: Reading quiz over Vitruvius, on Doric and Corinthian orders and Classical Architecture, Adams, 108-119

·        September 27: Reading quiz over Vergil, The Aeneid, Bk II, Laocoon and Hellenistic sculpture in your book: Gardner’s

·        September 28:  (Getting a head start on “Rome”) Reading quiz over Etruscan art, in your Gardner’s book (stop at Etruscan Art and the Rise of Rome)

Week 12

Rome

·        October 1:  Reading quiz over The Power of Stone, Boorstin

·        October 2:  Reading quiz over Roman Painting, in your Gardner’s book

·        October 3:  Reading quiz over Roman Sculpture, Janson

·        October 4:  MAJOR TEST OVER ANCIENT AND CLASSICAL CULTURES

·        October 5:  (Professional Development)

Week 13

Art from the Fall of Rome to the Gothic Period

·        October 8: Reading quiz over Christian Symbols and Life of Jesus and Early Christian Architecture, APAP

·        October 9:  Reading Quiz over Exodus 20, 1-5 and Pope Gregory letter to Bishop Serenus, 600 CE AND Byzantine Art, APAP

·        October 10:  Reading Quiz over "Islamic Architectural Ornament," "Later Islamic Architecture" Gardner’s, 329-35.  

·        October 11: Reading Quiz over "Ottonian Art," Gardner’s, 370-372; "The Middle Ages: The Reign of Religion," Strickland, 24-29

·        October 12:  Reading Quiz over An Architecture of Light, on Suger, Boorstin

Issues to Explore

in class discussion and written assignments

during weeks 9 - 16:

1. What impact did major historical events such as the Crusades, the Black Death, the spread of Islam, and the expansion of navigation have on the European mindset and resulting art?

2. Why did the Renaissance happen?  Why did it begin in Italy?  Why was the epicenter in Florence?  Why do we hear so much about the Medici family?       

3. What is HUMANISM and what caused its emergence?  How can we see evidence of humanism in European art and architecture produced during the 14^th and 15^th centuries?  What impact does it have on formal elements?  How is it reflected in subject matter?  Is this a cause of convergence between European and non-Western art?

4. What impact does the emergence of art academies have on the history of art? 

5. Why do we see so few female artists in this period? 

6. What effect does the emergence of strong, centralized monarchies have on art and architectural production? 

7.  How do artists depict secular power and authority?  How are these images different from those portraying religious power and authority? 

8.  What impact did Popes Innocent VIII, Alexander VI, Julius II, and Leo X have on contemporary art and architecture?

9. Why did Rome emerge as the center of European art in the 16^th century? 

10.  In what ways is it accurate to call Michelangelo the first of the Mannerists?

11. What impact did the beginning of the Protestant Reformation and the sack of Rome in 1527 have on the development of Mannerism?

12. Why did distinctly disproportionate body parts appeal to the Mannerists? 

13. In what ways were the Mannerists attempting to distinguish themselves from the artists active from 1500 to 1520?

14. Why are the artists of Florence and Rome so much better known by the general public than those of Venice?  Is the work of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael inherently superior to that of Giorgione and Titian?

15. What exactly distinguishes Mannerism from the Venetian style from Florentine and Roman art of the same period?

Week 9

Major Exam; Begin Early Renaissance

·        October 15: MAJOR TEST OVER EARLY CHRISTIAN THROUGH MEDIEVAL PERIODS

·        October 16: Reading quiz over:"Giotto," Gardner’s, 634-642, "Donatello," Gardner’s, 683-690

·        October 17: Reading quiz over. Les Tres Riches Heures, Limbourg Brothers

·        October 18: (State OEA: Prof Day)

·        October 19: FALL BREAK!!!

Week 10

Continue Early Renaissance

·        October 22: Reading quiz over "Lines of Vision," "Early Fifteenth-Century Painting," Adams, 250-255.

·        October 23: Reading quiz over Piero the Painter Blended Geometry with Religious Art, Smithsonian, Dec92

·        October 24: Reading quiz over "Botticelli," "Signorelli and Perugino," and "Mantegna," Gardner’s, 719-727.

·        October 25:  Reading quiz over Sculpture in the 2^nd half of the 15^th century, Gardner’s, 711–717.

·        October 26:  Tentatively Scheduled: APAH & Fieldtrip to Philbrook Art Museum:

Week 11

Complete Early Renaissance

·        October 29: Reading quiz over Virtue and Beauty, Ren Image of Ideal Woman, Smithsonian, Sep2001

·        October 30:  Review quiz over Early Renaissance Timeline and images.

·        October 31:  MAJOR TEST OVER EARLY RENAISSANCE

·        November 1:  Reading quiz over Early Renaissance Architecture, Adams

·        November 2: Tableaux Vivants over Early Renaissance Architecture

Week 12

Northern Renaissance

·        November 5:  Reading quiz over Roman Afterlives, on Brunelleschi, Boorstin

·        November 6:  Reading quiz over "The Ghent Altarpiece: Jan van Eyck and His Patrons," H&F, 398-9; "Jan van Eyck's Annunciation" pamphlet from National Gallery, Wash DC, summer 94.

·        November 7:  Reading quiz over Mittler, 15^th c Art in Northern Europe

·        November 8:  Reading quiz over Mittler, 16^th c Art in Northern Europe

·        November 9:  Reading quiz The World of Bosch, Smithsonian

Week 13

Continue Northern Renaissance

·        November 12: Reading quiz over "Hieronymus Bosch," Gardner’s, 668-670, "Matthias Grunewald," G, 793-5. Grunewald, A Master Piece Born of St Anthony, Smithsonian, Sept99

·        November 13:  Reading quiz over “Albrecht Durer,” Gardner’s 795 – 799

·        November 14:  Reading quiz over. "The Uninvited Guest:  Peter Bruegel," Krull, 20-23; "Pieter Bruegel the Elder," Gardner’s, 804-806.

·        November 15: TAKE IMAGES PART OF NORTHERN RENAISSANCE EXAM

·        November 16: (Parent/Teacher Conferences)

November 19-23: THANKSGIVING BREAK!!

Week 14

Northern Renaissance Major Test, Begin 16^th Century

·        November 26:  MAJOR TEST OVER NORTHERN RENAISSANCE ART

·        November 27: Reading quiz over "Leonardo da Vinci," Krull, 11-15; "Seeking Mona Lisa," Smithsonian, 5/99.

·        November 28:  Reading quiz over "Raphael," Gardner’s, 740-744.

·        November 29:  Reading quiz over "Michelangelo Buonarroti," Krull 16-19.

·        November 30:  Reading quiz over Michelangelo, Gardner’s, 744-753.

Week 15

Continue 16^th Century

·        December 3: Reading quiz over "Bellini and Giorgione," Gardner’s 775 – 779 (stop at Titian)

·        December 4: Reading quiz over Titian, Smithsonian 11-90

·        December 5:  Reading quiz over “A Life of Genius” on Anguissola, Smithsonian, May 1995; excerpt from Chadwick, excerpt from Krull

·        December 6:  Reading quiz over "Mannerism," Gardner’s, 762-6, Dosso Dossi, Schiff, Smithsonian, January 1999

·        December 7:  Reading quiz over “The Genius of El Greco” and “Toledo—El Greco’s Spain Lives On,” National Geographic, June 1982.

Issues to Explore

in class discussion and written assignments

during weeks 17 - 21:

1. What is the impact of the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter Reformation on European art and architecture?  How do they influence artistic patronage?  How do they shape attitudes of the general public toward art?  What impact do they have on both the content and form of the works artists produce?

2. What impact does the Scientific Revolution have on the art of Europe in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries? 

3. Gardner's discusses 17^th century art in the context of fascination with "matter in motion through time, space, and light."  How do we see evidence of that fascination in the art and architecture of the Baroque period?

4. How is art affected by the growing popularity of theater and opera?  How do artists incorporate theatricality into painting, sculpture, and architecture?

5. How can we account for the artistic explosion in the Dutch Netherlands during the 17^th century?

6. Why does the center of artistic influence begin to shift from Rome toward Western Europe and eventually Paris?

7. What is the effect on artistic production of the rise of absolute monarchs, such as Louis XIV?

8. How do the works of Baroque artists reflect influences from the Italian Renaissance or the Northern Renaissance? 

9. Who are the rebels, the artistic groundbreakers, and what was their motivation?

Week 16

Complete Sixteenth Century, Major Test, Begin Baroque

·        December 10: Reading quiz over Tintoretto and Veronese, Gardner’s 783 – 787, Veronese's responses to the Inquisition

·        December 11: Quiz over images.

·        December 12: Major test: 16^th Century art

·        December 13:  Reading Quiz over Adams: "The Baroque Style in Western Europe," 333; "Bernini," "Caravaggio," "Gentileschi," 342-349;

·        December 14:  Reading Quiz over Caravaggio, The Artist as Outlaw, Lambert

Week 17

Baroque

·        December 17: Reading quiz over Artemisia's Moment, Smithsonian, May 2002; Artemisia, on being cheated

·        December 18:  Reading quiz over “Spain,” Gardner’s, 843-48.

·        December 19:  Reading quiz over Velazquez, A Humane Equilibrium, Wolf.

·        December 20:  Reading quiz over Rubens, Smithsonian, Oct93

December 21-January 2: CHRISTMAS BREAK!!

Second Semester, 2007-2008

Preparation Days: January 3-4:

·        January 3: No Reading Quiz. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

·        January 4: Reading quiz over Mirror Images, camera oscura, Smithsonian, February 2002.

Week Nineteen: January 7 – 11:  Continue Baroque

·        January 7:  Reading quiz over Time Stands Still in the Harmonious World of Vermeer, Smithsonian, November, 1995

·        January 8:   Film: Vermeer - “Girl with the Pearl Earring”

·        January 9:   Film @ Lunch thru 5^th Hour: Vermeer - “Girl with the Pearl Earring”

·        January 10:  Reading quiz over From Darkness Into Light:  Rediscovering Georges de La Tour, Smithsonian, December, 1996

·        January 11:  Reading quiz over France, Gardner’s, 865 - 870

Week Twenty:  January 14 – 18:  Complete Baroque, Major Test, begin 16^th - 17^th C. architecture

·        January 14:  Reading quiz over H&F Bramante’s Tempietto, 444-45, Stokstad, St Peter’s Basilica, 701

·        January 15: Michelangelo’s Architecture, Gardner’s, 754 -760

·        January 16:  Reading quiz over Palladio, Il Gesu, and Borromini

·        January 17: Finish Model Building of “Palladio’s Villa Rotunda” and Test Review

·        January 18: MAJOR TEST OVER BAROQUE

Week Twenty-one: January 21 – 25:  Complete 16^th - 17^th C. architecture

·        January 21: (Professional Day) NO School!

·        January 22: Quiz over façade of Il Gesu

·        January 23:  Reading quiz over Gardner’s 820-21 on Maderno, 828-830 on Borromini

·        January 24:  Reading quiz over French Baroque architecture, Gardner’s 870 – 874, English Baroque architecture, Gardner’s 876-77

·        January 25:  MAJOR TEST OVER 16^TH-17^TH C. ARCHITECTURE

Issues to Explore

in class discussion and written assignments

during weeks 22 - 25: 

1. How does Rococo art reflect the lives of the aristocratic class?

2. How do the rising bourgeoisie react to Rococo images?

3. What impact does Enlightenment thought have on artistic content and form?

4. What is the impact of the French Academy and the Salon Exhibitions on art production and reception?   

5. To what extent do works by 18^th century artists reflect the rise of the middle class? 

6. How do the purposes of art change as the eighteenth century progresses? 

7. What does Diderot mean when he calls for “art that ennobles”?  How do artists respond?

8. Exactly what does Romanticism mean? 

9. In what ways are Romantic artists reacting against the Enlightenment's intellectual climate?

10. How does Romantic art reflect a break from deep-seated artistic rules inherited from the Renaissance?  Why does this occur?

11. To what extent do Romantic visual artists reflect developments in contemporary literature and music? 

12. Stylistically and thematically, how do artists express the same kinds of notions found in Romantic music and literature?

13. What is the impact of the Industrial Revolution on artistic patronage, production, and interpretation?

14. By what process does photography come to be considered art?  Do early photographers define their work in that way?  What functions does photography serve that both link it with and distinguish it from the other visual arts?

15. What impact does photography have on painting and vice versa?  How do painters emulate photographers and how do photographers emulate painters? 

16. Technically speaking, what is the range of artistic expression inherent to photography?  How do photographers manipulate their medium for their desired effects?

17. What exactly is Realism?  Does it mean the same things for writers and for visual artists?  What subjects do artists choose to depict realistically?  Why? 

18. In what ways do the socioeconomic changes accompanying the Industrial Revolution affect the birth of Realism? 

19. To what extent was Realist art used as propaganda for social change? To what extent can we see “big issues” such as evolution, nationalism, liberalism, and Social Darwinism in 19^th century art?

20. How does Sullivan’s dictum of “Form follows function” an extension of Realism?

21. To what extent is Realism a reaction against Romanticism? 

22. Is optical realism what is most real?  If not, what techniques can artists use to portray their understanding of what is ‘real’? 

23. Do the Pre-Raphaelites represent a reaction against Realism?

24. Why are architects so tied to the past when painters are anxious to create “modern” art?

25. How do the Impressionists represent perhaps the most dramatic break from the Renaissance tradition up to their time? 

26. How does their work reflect radical change stylistically, in their concepts of art's purpose, and in their ideas of themselves as artists? 

27. Who were their greatest influences and why? 

28. What impact does the opening of European-Japanese trade relations have on the art world?  Why are European artists so taken with Japanese woodblock prints?  How do they emulate those prints in their own paintings and prints?

29. Why have the Impressionists enjoyed such popularity among the general population in the past several decades, and why have the Pre-Raphaelites experienced a notable rise in popularity?

30. What initially attracted Post-Impressionist artists to Impressionism, and why did each become dissatisfied with it?

31. What was each Post-Impressionist artist trying to accomplish artistically and what in their work made them influential for other artists?

32. How do the Post-Impressionists reflect the changing role of the artist in Western society? 

Week Twenty-two: January 28 – February 1:  18^th and 19^th Century art

·        January 28:  Reading quiz over The Rococo, Feldman, Thinking about Art, 190-94

·        January 29: Reading quiz over “Fragonard and Greuze: Sex Objects and Virtuous Mothers,” H&F 578-9; England: Painting, Janson 608-611

·        January 30:  Reading quiz over The Quiet Mastery of Jean-Simeon Chardin, Smithsonian, June 2000

·        January 31: Reading quiz over "Revolution and Enlightenment," Stokstad, 929-931; "The Romance of Science," "History Painting," Stokstad, 943-6.

·        February 1: Reading quiz over Goya and His Women, Meisler, Smithsonian, April 2002

Week Twenty-three:  February 4 - 8:  Continue 18^th and 19^th Century art

·        February 4:  Reading quiz over: From Saints to Sunsets: The Late Great Works of Delacroix, Helen Dudar, Smithsonian, September, 1998

·        February 5: Reading quiz over The American Land Inspired Cole’s Prescient Visions, Smithsonian, May 1994

·        February 6: Reading quiz over Romanticism to Realism, H&F 598-600, 623-27

·        February 7: Reading quiz over Edgar Degas’s Last Years, Smithsonian, October 1996 and The Peacock and the Prodigy: Whistler, Civilization, Jan/Feb 1995

·        February 8: (Parent/Teacher Conferences)

Week Twenty-four: February 11 - 15: Continue 18^th and 19^th Century art

·        February 11:  Reading quiz over "Gustave Caillebotte: The Unknown Impressionist,” Art and Antiques, April 1995.

·        February 12: Reading quiz over Cezanne's Endless Quest, Dudar, Smithsonian, April, 1996

·        February 13: Reading quiz over "Modernism's Patriarch," Robert Hughes, Time, 6/10/96.

·        February 14: Reading quiz over Points of View, Signac, Smithsonian, October, 2001

·        February 15: Reading quiz over Strange Bedfellows, Van Gogh and Gauguin, Smithsonian, December, 2001

Week Twenty-five: February 18 – 22: Finish 18^th and 19^th Century art, exam

·        February 18: (Professional Day)

·        February 19:  Reading quiz over The Many Faces of Gustave Moreau, Smithsonian, Aug99

·        February 20:  Reading quiz over Edvard Munch A Searcher for Wonder in a World Overturned

·        February 21: Reading quiz over Ensor, In the Realm of the Social, Susan M Canning, Art in America, Feb 2000

·        February 22:  Major Test over 18^th and 19^th Centuries 

Issues to Explore

in class discussion and written assignments

during weeks 26 - 35: 

1. How do new scientific discoveries such as x-ray technology influence the work of 20^th century artists? 

2. Why does African sculpture have a radicalizing effect on many early 20^th century European artists?  How do European artists incorporate formal elements of African art?

3. How do we account for the proliferation of styles in the 20^th century? 

4. To what extent do these artists reflect what is happening in society?  To what extent do they reflect a growing gulf between society and its artists? 

5. How important is it, if at all, that the work of these artists is more inaccessible to today's general viewing public than work done in earlier times? 

6. What is the significance of the emergence of non-figurative art?  

7. Does the definition of art change during the 20^th century?

8. In what ways do these artists explore issues raised by contemporary events and by thinkers such as Nietzsche, Bergson, Freud, and Jung? 

9. What formal devices do 20^th century artists develop in order to achieve their goals? 

10. How are major world events, particularly the World Wars, reflected in the art of the century?

11. How can we learn to appreciate works of art that don't appeal to us aesthetically? 

12. When artists intend to shock and anger us, what techniques do they use?  How much further can ‘shock art’ go?

13. What is the best way to TEACH non-objective art to people who know nothing about it?

14. What impact have the Civil Rights and feminist movements had on art?  How effective have artistic images created by members of these movements, as well as members of other marginalized groups, been in bringing about social change?

15. What exactly is Post Modernism?  What has been the impact of Post Modern theory on artistic patronage and production?

16. Where do we go from here?  What artistic frontiers remain? 

Week 26:

Begin 20^th Century: Expressionism, Abstraction, Fantasy, and Realism before World War I; Expressionism, Abstraction, and Fantasy between the wars

·        February 25: Reading quiz over Art Nouveau, Smithsonian, October 2000

·        February 26: Reading quiz over Fauves, In Turn of the Century Paris, A Brash New Art, Dudar, H, Smithsonian, October 90 and Kandinsky, The Effect of Color, 1912

·        February 27: Reading quiz over Picasso Takes on the Masters, Smithsonian, October 1997; Picasso in Krull

·        February 28: Reading quiz over Orozco, Rivera, and Siqueiros, H&F, Diego and Frida in Krull and For Mondrian, Art Was a Path to the Universal, Schiff, Smithsonian, 6-95

·        February 29: (Happy Leap Year!) Tentatively Scheduled: APAH & Art Club Field Trip to Fort Smith Art Sites

Week 27

Continue 20^th Century: Fantasy and Realism between the wars; Expressionism after WWII in Europe, Abstract Expressionism

·        March 3: Reading quiz over The Two Faces of Dali, Hughes, Time, 3-13-00 and Dada, Surrealism, Fantasy, Adams 1

·        March 4: Reading quiz over Magritte, Surreal Hero for a Nation, NY Times and Magritte, Master of the Double Take, Smithsonian, September, 1992

·        March 5: Reading quiz over Diary of a Mad Artist, Frida Kahlo, Vanity Fair, Sept95

·        March 6: Reading quiz over America between the Wars, Adams

·        March 7 :Reading quiz over Jackson Pollack, Modernism's Shooting Star, Smithsonian, November 1998

Week 28:

Continue 20^th Century: Realism after WWII (Pop Art), Photorealism, Earth & Site Art, Installations

·        March 10: Reading quiz over De Kooning, Schiff, Smithsonian

·        March 11: Reading quiz over 1960s—Pop, Op, and Minimalism, Adams

·        March 12: Reading quiz over The Really Big Art of Claes Oldenburg, Smithsonian, August 1995

·        March 13: Reading quiz over Hanson, Ugly Americans at the Whitney.

·        March 14: Reading quiz over Art that Turns Life Inside Out, George Segal, Smithsonian, Jan98

Happy Spring Break!

Week Twenty-Nine:  Complete 20^th Century, Exam

·        March 24: Reading quiz over: Wayne’s World, Thiebaud, Art in America, February 2002

·        March 25:  Reading quiz over: Later 20th Century Sculpture, Janson

·        March 26: Review for major test.

·        March 27: Major Test over 20^th century, Part One

·        March 28: Major Test over 20^th century, Part Two

Week Thirty:  18^th – 21^st Century Architecture

·        March 31:  Reading quiz over The House That John Built, Blenheim Palace, Smithsonian, February 2001

·        April 1:  Reading quiz over Neoclassical and Romantic Architecture, Janson

·        April 2: Reading quiz over “Architecture in the Later 19^th Century” Gardner’s 1013 – 1017 and Gaudi's Gift, Smithsonian, July 2002

·        April 3: Reading quiz over A Great Architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, Smithsonian, February 1994 and “Art Deco” and "The International Style," Gardner’s, 1028-1033

·        April 4: Tentatively Scheduled: APAH Field Trip to Gilcrease and Tour of Tulsa’s Downtown Architecture

Week Thirty-One:  Continue 18^th – 21^st  Century Architecture

·        April 7:  Reading quiz over "Modernism and Postmodernism in Architecture," Gardner’s, 1138-46 (stop at Postmodernism)

·        April 8:  Reading quiz over "Renzo Piano: The Incredible Lightness of Being," Richard Covington, Smithsonian, June 1999.

·        April 9:  Reading quiz over Gehry, The Miracle in Bilbao, NY Times magazine

·        April 10: Review for major test

·        April 11:  Major Test over 18^th – 21^st century Architecture

Week Thirty-Two:  Art of the New Millennium: China and Japan

·        April 14:  Reading quiz over Damien Hirst, http://artchive.com/artchive/H/hirst.html

·        April 15:  Reading quiz over Tate Modern brochure on Carsten Höller's Test Site, 2006

·        April 16:  Reading quiz over China, Gardner's 494 - 503

·        April 17:  Reading quiz over China, Gardner's 503 – 516

·        April 18:  Reading quiz over "Hokusai, Old Man Mad About Drawing," Krull and "The Age of Edo," Smithsonian, December 1998

Week Thirty-Three: Begin Course Review and Ap Exam Prep

·        April 21:  "Greatest Hits" of Africa, Mesoamerica and India

·        April 22:  "Greatest Hits" of Ancients through Gothic

·        April 23:  "Greatest Hits" of Ancients through Gothic

·        April 24:  Timeline Quiz #1! “Greatest Hits” of Trecento through Baroque

·        April 25:  Timeline Quiz #2! “Greatest Hits” of Trecento through Baroque

Week Thirty-Four: Timeline Quizzes; AP Prep

·        April 28: Timeline Quiz #3! “Greatest Hits” of Trecento through Baroque

·        April 29: Timeline Quiz #4! “Greatest Hits” of Trecento through Baroque

·        April 30:  Prepare for 30 minute essays

·        May 1:  Prepare for short essays  

·        May 2:  Prepare for short essays

Week Thirty-Five:  AP PREP

·        May 5:  Prepare 30 minute essays  

·        May 6:  "Greatest Hits" of Ancients through Gothic

·        May 7:  “Greatest Hits” of Trecento through Baroque

·        May 8:  Mock AP Exam

·        May 9:  Mock AP Exam

Week Thirty-Six:  AP PREP

·        May 12: Final Exam Review Session – Including Periods 6-8

·        May 13: Final Exam Review Session – Including Periods 6-8

AP EXAM:

Wednesday, May 14^th at High Noon!

Lunchies: 2007-2008

All the fun stuff you wish we had time to do in class but don't

All year long, we will gather for PIZZA and Art History coolness on WEDNESDAYS.  Each session you attend for at least 35 minutes earns you the ability to drop a reading quiz grade.  (Please bring $3 before the beginning of Lunch each Wednesday you wish to eat pizza during Lunch Session.)

Glossary:

AWW = Art of the Western World series, by Michael Woods, the British guy

Tableaux Vivants = a type of performance art in which you and your group and  “act out” pieces of art.  I photograph your performance and compile those into a PowerPoint presentation for you to keep at the end of the year.

Exquisite Corpse = parlor game played by the Surrealists in which several people participate in drawing a figure without being able to see what the others have drawn.  "Game of folded paper that consists in having a sentence or a drawing composed by several persons, each ignorant of the preceding collaboration...[eg]..."the exquisite/corpse/will drink/the new/wine"--excerpt from the 1939 Abridged Dictionary of Surrealism, as copied off the wall at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Lunchie Wednesdays will include:

1. Art History in the Movies!  My friend Jim’s video

2. Art History Pictionary!

3. Little Buddha excerpts

4. Tableaux Vivants over Africa and India

5. Competition:  Jeopardy over Egypt and Mesopotamia

6. Watch Gladiator clips

7. Competition:  Jeopardy over the Classical and Medieval periods

8. Coloring!  Color stained–glass drawings or make your own.

9. Tableaux Vivants over Greeks, Romans, Medieval

10. Jeopardy over Early Renaissance

11. Charades!  From beginning to 1500.

12. Tableaux Vivants over Early and Northern Renaissance (or Jeopardy over Northern Ren)

13. Coloring!  Create your own caricatures of the Mona Lisa.

14. Clips from The Italian Job and Don’t Look Now

15. Jeopardy over the 16^th century

16. Charades!  16^th century

17. Tableaux Vivants over High Ren, Venetian Style, and Mannerism

18. Jeopardy over the Baroque, round 1

19. Make models of Palladio’s Villa Rotunda

20. Jeopardy over the Baroque round 2

21. Tableaux Vivants over Baroque

22. Charades over Baroque and 18-19^th c.

23. Jeopardy over 18-19^th c.

24. Coloring!  Create your own Kandinsky

25. Tableaux Vivants over 18-19^th c.

26. Tableaux Vivants over 20^th century

27. Practice AP test excerpts (AP REVIEW)

28. Greatest Hits of the Romans through Islamic (AP REVIEW)

29. AP PRACTICE