Composite Classnotes, 2002-03.docComposite APAH Notes 02-03, Pt 2.doc Welcome Art Fans!AP Art History
Ms. Russell
2008 - 2009
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%). NOTE: When you know that you must miss class for any reason – athletics, college visit, doctor’s appointment, whatever -- I expect you to take the scheduled reading quiz IN ADVANCE, as there will be NO MAKEUP QUIZZES over reading assignments, even for “excused” absences; however, you will earn one dropped grade for each Wednesday lunch-time session of LUNCHIES
Art History Fun and Games. In instances of extended illness, you may do readings from the Alternate Reading Assignments folder, but this is only with my approval. Makeup tests will be administered during lunch on Tuesdays. It is your responsibility 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.
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, 12th ed., 2004. (G)
Wilkins, David G., Bernard Schultz, and Katheryn M. Linduff, Art Past, Art Present, 1997. (APAP)
+ others as noted on syllabus
Issues to explore in class discussions and written assignments for weeks one through seven:
Who are the patrons of religious art and architecture, and what impact do they have on its content and form?
· How do artists communicate religious beliefs and concepts? How do they differentiate between the natural and the supernatural?
· Is there universality in the ways human beings have expressed their spiritual beliefs through art? Are there any features that all religious art shares? Are there universal images permeating human religions like archetypes in mythology?
How can we recognize the art and architecture of a particular religion?
Why are art and religion intimately connected throughout human history? How does art serve the needs of religion?
What does the comparison of non-Western and Western art reveal about artistic patronage, practice, purpose, meaning, and style?
What sorts of things emerge as universals and which are more culturally specific?
Do artistic styles seem to follow the same kind of development in Asia as in Europe?
Are the historical forces that shape Asian artistic evolution markedly different from those affecting European art?
Which artistic innovations do the Western and non-Western worlds seem to have both discovered independently and which did each have to learn from the other?
Week One: August 26 - 29: Introduction to course; African art
Week Two: September 2 - 5: Introduction to Hinduism; Hindu and Buddhist Art
September 2: Reading quiz over "The Post-Gupta Period," Stokstad, 383-388.
Week Three: September 8 - 12: Buddhist Art, Nonwestern Art Major Test #1; Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
September 9: Reading Quiz over pre-dynastic and Old Kingdom Egyptian art, Gardner’s, 55 – 61 AND 65 – 70 (stop at “The New Kingdom”)
September 10: Reading Quiz over New Kingdom Egyptian art, Gardner’s, 70 (start at “The New Kingdom”) – 82
September 11: Reading Quiz Sumerian art, Gardner’s, 31 – 40 (stop at “Akkadian, Neo-Sumerian, Babylonian, and Hittite Art”)
September 12: NONWESTERN MAJOR TEST: AFRICAN, HINDU, AND BUDDHIST ART
Week Four: September 15 - 19: Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia; The Aegean and Classical Greece
· September 15: Reading quiz over Akkadian, Neo-Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, Persian, and Sasanian art, Gardner’s, 40 – 52.
· September 17: Reading quiz over Geometric, Orientalizing, and Archaic Periods of Greek Art, Gardner’s 105 – 115 (Stop at “Architecture and Architectural Sculpture”)
· September 18: Reading quiz over Archaic Architecture and Vase Painting, Gardner’s, 115 - 124
· September 19: Reading quiz over Early and High Classical Statuary, Gardner’s 126 – 132 (Stop at “The Athenian Acropolis”) AND Late Classical Sculpture, Gardner’s 145 – 151 (Stop at “Architecture”)
Week Five: September 22 - 26: The Aegean and Classical Greece; Rome
· September 23: Reading quiz over Vergil, The Aeneid, Bk II, Laocoön AND Hellenistic sculpture, Gardner’s 153 - 164
· September 24: Reading quiz over Etruscan art, Gardner’s 233 – 242 (stop at “Etruscan Art and the Rise of Rome”)
· September 25: Reading quiz over Roman Architecture, Gardner’s 268 (begin at “Rome, the Marble City” – 280 (Stop at “Hadrian’s Country Retreat”)
· September 26: Reading quiz over Roman Painting, Gardner’s 254 (Start at “Pompeii and the Cities of Vesuvius”) – 265 (Stop at “Early Empire”)
Week Six: September 29 - October 2: Rome; Early Christian, Islamic, Medieval Art
October 2: Reading Quiz over Islamic Art and Architecture, Gardner’s 357-66
Week Seven: October 6 - 10: Art from the Fall of Rome to the Gothic Period; Major Exam; Begin Early Renaissance
October 6: Reading Quiz over Early Medieval Art, Gardner’s 421 - 432
October 7: Reading Quiz over "Ottonian Art," Gardner’s 436 - 444
October 9: MAJOR TEST OVER EARLY CHRISTIAN THROUGH MEDIEVAL PERIODS
October 10: Reading quiz over 14th-century Italian Art, Gardner’s 521-531.
Issues to explore in class discussion and written assignments in weeks eight - fourteen:
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?
· 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 Medicis?
· What is HUMANISM and what caused its emergence? How can we see evidence of humanism in European art and architecture produced during the 14th and 15th centuries? What impact does it have on formal elements? How is it reflected in subject matter?
· What effect does the emergence of art academies have on the history of art?
· Why do we see so few female artists in this period?
· What impact does the emergence of strong, centralized monarchies have on art and architectural production?
· How do artists depict secular power and authority? How do these images differ from those portraying religious power?
· What impact did Popes Innocent VIII, Alexander VI, Julius II, and Leo X have on contemporary art and architecture?
· Why did Rome emerge as the center of European art in the 16th century?
· In what ways is it accurate to call Michelangelo the first of the Mannerists?
· What impact did the beginning of the Protestant Reformation and the sack of Rome in 1527 have on the development of Mannerism?
Why did distinctly disproportionate body parts appeal to the Mannerists?
· In what ways were the Mannerists attempting to distinguish themselves from the artists active from 1500 to 1520?
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?
What exactly distinguishes the Venetian style from Florentine and Roman art of the same period?
Week Eight: October 13 – 17: Early Renaissance
October 14: Reading quiz over Early 15-century Italian art, Gardner’s 573 - 582
October 15: PSAT day; no classes
Week Nine: October 21 - 24: Continue Early Renaissance
October 21: Reading quiz over The Medicis and Florentine art, Gardner’s 591-598 (Stop at “Further Developments in Architecture”)
· October 22: Reading quiz over Florentine art in the 2nd half of the 15th century, Gardner’s 600 (Start at “Images of Piety and Devotion”) – 610
Week Ten: October 27 – 31: Early Renaissance Exam; Early Renaissance Architecture
· October 27: MAJOR TEST OVER EARLY RENAISSANCE
· October 30: QUIZ OVER EARLY RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE (counts as FIVE daily grades!)
Week Eleven: November 3 - 7: Northern Renaissance; Field Trip to Fort Worth
November 3: Reading quiz over Mittler, 15th c Art in Northern Europe
November 4: Reading quiz over Mittler, 16th c Art in Northern Europe
November 6: Reading quiz over 16th Century Art in Northern Europe, Gardner’s, 663- 668 (Stop at “Widely Acclaimed Talent”)
November 7: FIELD TRIP TO FORT WORTH KIMBELL, CARTER, and MODERN ART MUSEUMS
Week Twelve: November 10 - 14: END OF FIRST TRIMESTER; Continue Northern Renaissance
November 10: Reading quiz over Grunewald, A Masterpiece Born of St Anthony, Smithsonian, Sept99
November 11: Reading quiz over 16th Century German and French art, Gardner’s 668 (Start at “Widely Acclaimed Talent”) – 675 (Stop at “A Painted and Plastered Palace”)
November 12: MAJOR TEST OVER NORTHERN RENAISSANCE ART
November 14: TAKE IMAGES PART OF NORTHERN RENAISSANCE EXAM
Week Thirteen: November 17 - 21: Begin 16th Century
November 18: Reading quiz over The High Renaissance, Gardner’s 613 – 15 (Stop at “A Dramatic Betrayal”) AND 629 – 632 (Stop at Michelangelo)
November 20: Reading quiz over Michelangelo, Gardner’s, 620 (Start at “Novel and Lofty Things”) - 627.
November 21: Reading quiz over "Bellini and Giorgione," Gardner’s 638 - 647 (Stop at “Other 16th-Century Italian Artists”)
Week Fourteen: December 1 - 5: Continue 16th Century
December 3: (SHORT CLASS) ST. ANDREW’S DAY
December 4: Reading quiz over Women in the Renaissance Art World and Mannerism, Gardner’s, 647 – 653
Issues to explore in class discussion and written assignments during weeks 15 - 19:
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?
What impact does the Scientific Revolution have on the art of Europe in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries?
· Gardner's discusses 17th 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?
· How is art affected by the growing popularity of theater and opera? How do artists incorporate theatricality into painting and sculpture?
· How can we account for the artistic explosion in the Dutch Netherlands during the 17th century?
· Why does the center of artistic influence begin to shift from Rome toward Western Europe and eventually Paris?
What is the effect on artistic production of the rise of absolute monarchs, such as Louis XIV?
How do the works of Baroque artists reflect influences from the Italian Renaissance or the Northern Renaissance?
Who are the rebels, the artistic groundbreakers, and what was their motivation?
Week Fifteen: December 8 - 12: Complete 16th Century; 16th -Century Major Test, Begin Baroque
December 10: Quiz over images
· December 11: Major test: 16th Century art
Week Sixteen: December 15 -18:
December 15: Reading Quiz over Caravaggio, Smithsonian, March 2007
December 17: Reading quiz over “Spain,” Gardner’s, 708 - 713.
Happy Holidays – See you in 2009!
Week Seventeen: January 5 - 9: Continue Baroque
· January 7: Reading quiz over “The Dutch Republic,” Gardner’s, 718 – 721; “At Ease …,” 724 – 727, and “Satirizing Dutch Life,” 730 - 732.
Week Eighteen: January 12 - 16: Complete Baroque
· January 13: Reading quiz over France, Gardner’s, 732 – 738
· January 16: MAJOR TEST OVER BAROQUE
Week Nineteen: January 20 – 23: Begin 16th - 17th C. architecture Major Test
· January 21: Reading quiz over Baroque Architecture, Gardner’s 689 - 693 AND 697 – 700 (Stop at “The Light of Divine Revelation”)
· January 22: Reading quiz over French and English Baroque architecture, Gardner’s 738 – 744
Issues to explore in class discussion and written assignments during weeks 20 - 22:
How does Rococo art reflect the lives of the aristocratic class?
What is the impact of Rococo images on the rising bourgeoisie?
What impact does Enlightenment thought have on artistic content and form?
What is the impact of the French Academy and the Salon Exhibitions?
To what extent do works by 18th century artists reflect the decline of the ruling aristocracies and the rise of the middle class?
How does the purpose of art change as the eighteenth century progresses?
Just what does Romanticism mean?
In what ways are Romantic artists reacting against the Enlightenment's intellectual climate?
How does Romantic art reflect a break from deep-seated artistic rules inherited from the Renaissance? Why does this occur?
To what extent do Romantic visual artists reflect developments in contemporary literature and music?
Stylistically and thematically, how do artists express the same kinds of notions found in Romantic music and literature?
· What is the impact of the Industrial Revolution on artistic production?
By what process does photography come to be considered art? Do early photographers seem to define their work in that way? What functions does photography serve from the beginning that both link it with and distinguish it from the other visual arts?
What impact does photography have on painting and vice versa? How do painters emulate photographers and how do photographers emulate painters?
Technically speaking, what is the range of artistic expression inherent to photography? How do photographers manipulate their medium for their desired effects?
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?
Is optical realism what is most real? If not, what techniques can artists use to portray their understanding of what is real?
In what ways do the socioeconomic changes accompanying the Industrial Revolution affect the birth of Realism? To what extent was Realist art used as propaganda for social change?
To what extent is Realism a reaction against Romanticism?
How do the Pre-Raphaelites represent a reaction against Realism and/or Impressionism?
How do the Impressionists represent perhaps the most dramatic break from the Renaissance tradition up to their time?
How does their work reflect radical change stylistically, in their concepts of art's purpose, and in their ideas of themselves as artists?
Who were their greatest influences and why?
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?
· 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?
Why were Post-Impressionist artists initially attracted to Impressionism, and why did each become dissatisfied with it?
What was each trying to accomplish artistically and what in their work made them influential for other artists?
How do the Post-Impressionists reflect the changing role of the artist in Western society?
Week Twenty: January 26 – 30: 18th and 19th Century art
· January 26: MAJOR TEST OVER 16TH-17TH C. ARCHITECTURE
Week Twenty-One: February 2 -6: Continue 18th and 19th Century art
Week Twenty-Two: February 9 - 13: Finish 18th and 19th Century art
· February 10: Reading quiz over Cézanne, Smithsonian, Jan 2006
Issues to explore in class discussion and written assignments in weeks 23 - 28:
How do new scientific discoveries such as x-ray technology influence the work of 20th century artists?
· Why does African sculpture have a radicalizing effect on many early 20th century European artists? How do European artists incorporate formal elements of African art?
How do we account for the proliferation of styles in the 20th century?
To what extent do these artists reflect society? To what extent do they reflect a growing gulf between society and its artists?
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?
What is the significance of the emergence of non-figurative art?
· Does the definition of art change during the 20th century?
In what ways do these artists explore issues raised by contemporary events and by thinkers such as Nietzsche, Bergson, Freud, and Jung?
What formal devices do 20th century artists develop in order to achieve their goals?
· How are major world events, particularly the World Wars, reflected in the art of the century?
· How can we learn to appreciate works of art that don't appeal to us aesthetically?
· When artists intend to shock and anger us, what techniques do they use?
· What is the best way to TEACH non-objective art to people who know nothing about it?
· What impact have the Civil Rights and feminist movements had on art? How effective have artistic images done by members of these movements, as well as members of other marginalized groups, been in bringing about social change?
What exactly is Post Modernism? What has been the impact of Post Modern theory on artistic patronage and production?
· Where do we go from here? What artistic frontiers remain?
Week Twenty-Three: February 17 - 20: Begin 20th Century: Expressionism, Abstraction, Fantasy, and Realism before World War I
· February 17: Reading quiz over “The Rise of the Avant-Garde,” Gardner’s 886 – 893 (stop at “The Arts and Crafts Movement.”)
· February 18: Major Test over 18th and 19th Centuries
· February 19: Reading quiz over Art Nouveau, Smithsonian, October 2000
Week Twenty-Four: February 23 – 27: Continue 20th Century: Expressionism, Abstraction, Fantasy, and Realism before World War I; Expressionism, Abstraction, and Fantasy between the wars
· February 23: Reading quiz over Dada, Smithsonian, May 2006
Week Twenty-Five: March 2 - 5: Continue 20th Century: Fantasy and Realism between the wars; Expressionism after WWII in Europe, Abstract Expressionism
· March 2: Reading quiz over Frida Kahlo, Smithsonian, November, 2002.
Week Twenty-Six: March 9 - 13: Complete 20th Century: Realism after WWII (Pop Art), Photorealism, Earth & Site Art, Installations, Exam
· March 12: DIVERSITY DAY – NO CLASSES
· March 13: Major Test over 20th century, Part One, followed by lecture.
HAPPY SPRING BREAK!
Week Twenty-Seven: March 23 – 27: Exam, Field Trip, 18th – 21st Century Architecture
· March 24: Major Test over 20th century, Part Two
· March 25: FIELD TRIP TO HOUSTON MFA AND MENIL COLLECTION
· March 26: Reading quiz over Art Nouveau and “Architecture in the Later 19th Century” Gardner’s 895 - 900
· March 27: Reading quiz over Gaudi's Gift, Smithsonian, July 2002
Week Twenty-Eight: March 30 – April 3: Complete 18th – 20th Century Architecture; Exam
· March 31: Reading quiz over the Bauhaus, the International Style Art Deco," Gardner’s, 1007 - 1017
· April 1: Reading quiz over Modern and Postmodern Architecture," Gardner’s, 1059 - 1067
· April 3: Major Test over 18th – 21st century Architecture
Week Twenty-Nine: April 6 - 8: Begin Course Review and AP Exam Prep
Week Thirty: April 15 - 17: Continue Course Review and AP Exam Prep
Week Thirty-One: April 20 - 24: Continue Course Review and AP Exam Prep
· April 21: Prepare for short essays
· April 25: Nonwestern
Lunchies
2008-09
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 allows you to drop a reading quiz grade.
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.
9/3: Art History in the Movies! My friend Jim’s video
9/10: Tableaux Vivants over Africa and India
9/17: Jeopardy over Egypt and Mesopotamia
9/24: Art History Pictionary over Nonwestern and the Ancients
10/1: Jeopardy over the Classical and Medieval periods
10/8: Coloring! Color stained–glass drawings or make your own.
10/14 or 10/16 (TUESDAY or THURSDAY DUE TO PSAT WEEK): Tableaux Vivants over Greeks, Romans, Medieval
10/22: Jeopardy over Early Renaissance
10/29: Charades! From beginning to 1500.
11/5: Tableaux Vivants over Early and Northern Renaissance (or Jeopardy over Northern Ren)
11/12: Coloring! Create your own caricatures of the Mona Lisa.
11/19: Jeopardy over the 16th century
12/2 or 12/4 (TUESDAY or THURSDAY DUE TO ST. ANDREW’S DAY): Charades! 16th century
12/10: Tableaux Vivants over High Ren, Venetian Style, and Mannerism
1/7: Jeopardy over the Baroque, round 1
1/14: Make models of Palladio’s Villa Rotunda
1/21: Jeopardy over the Baroque round 2
1/28: Tableaux Vivants over Baroque
2/4: Charades over Baroque and 18-19th c.
2/11: Jeopardy over 18-19th c.
2/18: Coloring! Create your own Kandinsky
2/25: Tableaux Vivants over 18-19th c.
3/4: Tableaux Vivants over 20th century
3/11: Practice AP test excerpts
4/1: Practice AP test excerpts.
4/6 OR 4/7 (MONDAY OR TUESDAY DUE TO GRANDPARENTS DAY): Greatest Hits of the Romans through Islamic (AP REVIEW)
4/15: AP PRACTICE
4/22: AP PREP
FINAL EXAM REVIEW SESSIONS.
Please plan to attend!
MONDAY, MAY 11, 6 – 8
TUESDAY, MAY 12, 6 – 8
THE AP ART HISTORY EXAM IS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 13.
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