Last 30 Minute Essay Assignment

This last essay assignment before your AP exam will focus on art of the last 50 years. Your response is due no later than Tuesday, May 8th. Art since the 1960's encompasses a wide variety of approaches. Address this variety of approaches through the careful choice and detailed discussion of two works of art made between 1960 and the present. The two works must be by different artists OR in different media. Be sure to fully identify each work. (30 minutes)

Guernica plus ...

The address below brings you to SmartHistory's 8 minute discussion on Picasso's Guernica. The site's other discussion that engage 20th century styles and artists are also extremely valuable in adding to your understanding of this period's art and are all highly recommended. http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/picasso-guernica.html I've also included 2 wonderful links to the Armory Show of 1913 that provides great insight into the works and artists in this seminal show bringing the European avante-gard to the US, and an article about Gallery 291 run by Alfred Steiglitz. http://www.art21.org/texts/the-culture-wars-redux/essay-the-1913-armory-show-americas-first-art-war http://xroads.virginia.edu/~museum/armory/entrance.html http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/modart_2.shtm http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/modart_2.shtm

New Gothic Cathedral Mapping Project

While this a throwback from many months ago, this project has just been made available online and offers a great overview and detailed look at French Gothic cathedrals and is well worth a look when preparing for the AP exam. Loads of information throughout this site:

http://www.mappinggothicfrance.org/

Chapter 32 Homework

Answers to the following questions on your reading of Chapter 32 are due on Monday, April 23th.

1. How are Abstract Expressionists and Color Field Painting related?
2. How are Assemblages and Happenings related?
3. What are the origins of Pop Art and what were its major concerns?
4. Why did the Minimal artists eliminate personal feeling and social references from their art?
5. How did the Conceptual artists eliminate the art object?
6. How did Feminists impact the artworld?
7. What is Postmodern art?
8. What are some of the issues New Media artists address in their work?
9. What is the Critique of Originality?
10. What are the main trends of Postwar photography?

Art & Myth in Gauguin

I've included a link to an NPR segment run on March 15, 2011 about a show of Gauguin's Tahitian artworks at the National Gallery and the controversies/ideas surrounding the artist and his relations to the subject matter. Within the link is the broadcast version of the story well worth the 7 minutes it takes to listen.

http://www.npr.org/2011/03/15/134537646/gauguins-nude-tahitians-give-the-wrong-impression

The Early 20th Century

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19th to 20th century sculpture

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Late 19th to Early 20th century architecture

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Impressionism 2

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Chapter 31 Homework

Answers to the following questions are due no later than Thurs. April 12th.

1. What did the Fauvists and Expressionists do to repudiate traditional notions of pictorial representation?

2. How did the Cubists create influential new methods of composition in painting and sculpture and what implications did it hold for subsequent artists?

3. Why did Dada ask radical questions about the nature of art itself? How did its artworks reflect those questions?

4. What is an example of Modern artists looking to non-western art during this period? How is this shown in in a specific example of art?

5. What kind of form did Modern architecture take during this period and which architects help innovate in this direction?

6. What did Bauhaus artists do with modern mass production and what implications did this approach have in the wider art world?

7. How did the de Stijl artists make art that attempted to purify the human mind with pure colors and simple forms?

8. What techniques did the Harlem Renaissance combine to raise awareness of African American culture?

9. How did the Surrealists liberate the unconscious mind and why did they do this in their art?

10. How did Federal patronage for American art function during the Depression?

11. Why did the Nazis suppress avant-garde art and how did they exhibit it?

12. What is the International Style and who were some of its leading architects?

Test Study Slides for Monday April 2

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New Posts and Homework

This weekend I have placed a several new posts in our blog. Two are slide shows representing work we will be discussing this week and next. One is a link to the SmartHistory website referencing Delacroix's great painting "Liberty Leading the People" from 1830.

I am not assigning new homework from the book this week, but especially in light of our trip to MoMA next Wed., it would be very beneficial to peruse Chapter 31 (and 32) to survey some of the work, artists and styles relevant to the time period covered in MoMA.

Because the marking period is ending next week, it is imperative we have one final test for the MP, and that will be held on Monday, April 2. Study images for the test will be posted by the end of the day tomorrow (March 26). The test will cover work from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.

Your written homework for this week is the following essay topic listed below. Your response to the topic is due no later than Thursday, March 29.

Read the question and take a moment to think about what the question asks. You can receive full credit only by answering the question asked. Therefore, spend a few minutes organizing or outlining your response in the blank space provided above the question. Notes in the blank space will not be graded. Be sure to analyze each question carefully and choose appropriate examples. Identify your examples as fully as possible.

Throughout history, technological developments have enabled artists and architects to express ideas in new ways.
Choose and fully identify two works of art or architecture and the specific technological development that made each work possible. One of your choices must date before 1800 CE and one must date after 1800 CE. For each work, analyze how the technological development enabled the artist or architect to express ideas in new ways.

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Lady Liberty Leading the People: Delacroix

This segment from SmartHistory is one we should be familiar with. Please avail yourself of other segments as well when you visit the site.

France: Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People - Smarthistory

Romanticism Slides

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