<p>How are you guys going to prep for the AP Art history exam?? What do you recommend...I'm taking the makeup test on the 23th cause I have a swim meet on the real day (16th) </p>
<p>what's the best way to prep?</p>
<p>Look Over Key Works And Also Know Your Non European Works
They Always Have An Essay On Non European Art
Also, Be Able To Know A Lot Of Art Terms As Well As Many Female Artists For Cb Emphasizes That
The Best Thing To Do Though Is To Look Over All The Art Periods And Be Able To Distinguish Different Periods Of Art And Their Respective Time Periods</p>
<p>is 2 weeks enough to self study all of it? I kinda slacked off this whole year in class so I don't remember much. =(</p>
<p>Know all of the real important artists, like Vermeer,van gogh(SP?), Leonaro, Raphael, Titian,Montagna(SP?), carravagio,cezanne, renoir,david,gerecault(sp?) turner,delacroix,constable, balla, holbein,monet, manet, bonheur,duccio(sp?),seurat, giatto, valequez, goya, el greco,cassat,hals, reubens, wright,....etc. Know how their art reveals their position on social,political, and cultural issues. Know important key terms, like perspective, realistic, idealized, severe, contraposto,archaic smile, alla prima, divided brush stroke,genre,still life,vanitas, sfumato(SP?), cantoleavers, etc. You also should really focus on architecture (especially cathedrals), and the key terms that are important in describing them, since arch. questions can be the hardest.Know the art historical periods and important dates and know how to "attribute". By that I mean know what the most important painters paintings look like and their typical subject manner, because the test usually has a piece of obscure artwork by a famous artist on the MC and FR ( for the FR it might ask you why the artwork is by the artist). Also know who commisioned what.</p>
<p>do ANY OF U HAVE THE 2004 AP ART HISTORY EXAM</p>
<p>can all of that be learned in 2 weeks? If i study several hours a day</p>
<p>Possibly, but it might be hard using gardners or janson's, since the books are long and wordy</p>
<p>Natt which book do you recommend? I have gardners and it is soo excessively wordy...and I am a slow reader.</p>
<p>annotated mona lisa, but dont rely on it for all of the info.</p>
<p>yeah i have it but it looks too brief? i need something that'll cover everything that's going to be on the exam</p>
<p>Does anybody know what a rubric for the long essays might look like? Let's say I get two works of art that fit and directly and bluntly answer the question - is that a full score? Or are there points reserved for some "wow factor"?</p>
<p>As you study architectural terms, note how some key inventions or engineering discoveries made new architectural styles possible, for example:</p>
<p>Flying buttresses. Don't leave home without them. They explain how it's possible to support a gothic cathedral, so up they soared! (Also, parts of a cathedral: nave,
rose window...) </p>
<p>Understand that the reduction in size of cathedrals at the end of the Middle Ages was a matter of choice by Renaissance architects, to humanize the spaces akin to human dimensions (Da Vinci's guy with his arms spread out). They "could" build them bigger, as in the Middle ages, but chose to make the spaces more human in proportion; also at the same time reintroduced the Greco-Roman forms (arches, domes, pillars...). All part of the Renaissance revival of interest in the classical philosophers of that time...getting away from the church to awe-inspire you and take you away to the next world, instead to refocus on the tangible present. Still Catholic, of course. </p>
<p>And backwards in time, the classical architecture: know that the arch and dome changed Greek to Roman architecture; the role of the keystone in the arch, stuff like
that.</p>
<p>Know your three pillars, for heavens' sake: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian.</p>
<p>Prior to the French Revolution, it's all about Versailles and the castles or chateaus of Europe. After that, no more chateaus.</p>
<p>In modern 20th century architecture, the introduction of reinforced concrete that made it possible to build skyscrapers (Chicago); figuring out how to make glass-front windows from top to bottom, so the outside could be a "glass skin" around the building and not just framed windows (New York, then Chicago picked it up too). </p>
<p>If you've never heard of Frank Lloyd Wright, look up his work. He's unique. Prarie School, built some houses for a few wealthy folks (Falling Water, for example) but also made some prototypes for more modest dwellings for the middle-class, too.</p>
<p>How about a bit of side-story from the history and religion. For example, don't you need to know that the patrons of European art during the Middle Ages and Renaissance was primarily the Roman Catholic Church, but with the rise of a middle class in Northern Europe, patrons were now the merchants/Protestant/individuals who wanted to decorate their homes. So a new market for: landscapes, portraits, indoor domestic scenes (the Dutch Masters) and not only religious subjects.</p>
<p>Re: women artists, reflect upon the statement by Virginia Woolf, that: all a woman needs to create is a room of her own and her own money...related to the emergence of women artists in the 20th century. Does this explain why no
women Michelangelos, DaVincis, etc...? </p>
<p>Have a working understanding of the differences among graphic prints: silkscreen, woodcut, etching and so on (from before there were computers)</p>
<p>---art history major from a zilliion years ago
GOOD LUCK on that exam!!</p>
<p>On modern painting...of course you know about the Impressionists (Monet's water lillies and cathedrals, etc) and how they painted outside, interested int he surface play of light upon objects. Van Gogh fits in there, although he had such powerful emotionalism in his work, too. (Note: he does not paint crazy, in fact his brushstokes are incredibly ordered and represent how each tree or flower grew; there's an internal structure to his brushwork, it's not helter-skelter).</p>
<p>But be sure you know about Modern Painting beyond the Impressionists. Start with the post-Impressionist Cezanne. He began to "tweak" the 3-d perspective that Leonardo understood..by painting a still life with the table to the left of the fruitbowl on one plane, but to the right of the fruitbowl you'll see that table going off pointing in a new plane or tilting. He was the first to explore the use of the canvas as not a "window" to show reality but its own reality. The space within it could be played with.
From that, you can connect the dots to the thinking of Picasso and Braque, when Picasso was in his cubist phase (he had many phases, cubism was just one of them). But the Cubists really fractured the space upon the canvas, so you're looking from many angles or perspectives all at once. Note also that Picasso studied African masks with great attention, and that played into his thinking.
PIcasso's friend Gaugin took the interest in other cultures further by going to live in the South Sea Islands and paint the island people for the rest of his life.
The 20th-century French artist Matisse, who worked in the same years as Picasso, also studied the architecture in Morrocco and was influenced by Arabic forms. </p>
<p>To understand modern painting, now you can connect PIcasso's Cubism to the thinking of Jackson Pollock (post WWII, 1950-60's, in NYC) who began to consider the canvas as not "representing" anything but a recording of his own interactions between the paint and the canvas. The canvas was its OWN reality. It was "abstract"(no external subject matter) and "expressive" of his emotions, so they called that era "abstract expressionism" and there were 20 or so great artists gathered in NYC then (center of art moved from Paris to NYC after WWII). SOme of those names of Pollocks' friends: deKooning, Jasper Johns, Mark Rothko, Rauschenberg...there was a whole circle, and private galleries to show their works. Exciting!</p>
<p>Then, Pop Art (Andy Warhol) with the l960's and its commentary about the new commercialism of America (soup cans, Marilyn Monroe, multiple images done by silkscreen onto canvas, but adjusted so that indeed each one IS individual and not identical...look closely at those soup cans, they're not identical; same with the "Four Marilyns"). Some cool guys who painted like the comic strips (Lichtenstein) but again, it was painterly because they made changes from the actual comic strips so the lines were much more beautiful, it wasn't just silly.</p>
<p>After that, some 1970's interest in Realism (Chuck Close, from photographs) or Segal
from casting plaster on actual bodies to make white plaster sculptures. </p>
<p>Then some 1980's Performance Art (like Yoko Ono, but there are many better examples to cite), kind of theatrical.</p>
<p>And 1990's, even before then a bit, think of: ENvironmental Art (Christo who wrapped up coastlines in plastic, or buildings like the public libraries, and most recently put up saffron-orange colore curtains in New York's Central Park, like a series of gates you could walk through). His works are not meant to last forever; he takes them down after a while. So it's an experience to heighten awareness of the world around you..and they are just beautiful in themselves.</p>
<p>Other trends that played a role in 20th century art: Surrealists who explored the dreamlike psychology (watches melting over a building, like in a dream)<br>
close to them, the Dadaists who were often quite funny! who made sculptures from found objects like bike handles, toilets... introducing the idea that art could be an object in our environment from which we derive meaning, not only a made object produced by the artist's hands.
Another artist in his own category, really, is Marc Chagall; some place himwith the abstract expressionists, but he is unique really; has some imagery from his youth in Russia in small villages, later in Paris, and then to NYC. Worked throughout the 20th c; didn't have a "school" or group he influenced, but is just unique</p>
<p>"yeah i have it but it looks too brief? i need something that'll cover everything that's going to be on the exam'</p>
<p>The comparison charts for the artist and bulidings and art historical periods are very useful, but you this is a good time too look over your notes. You should google some obscure paintings of famous artist, like rafael, Leonardo, monet.....etc. That way you will be more familiar with those artist work. DEFINITALY have at LEAST 10 examples ready for the 30min essays, don't forget you need some nonwestern examples for at least one of the 30 min essay's. Make sure that some of the exapmles you have are not paintings, (have some engravings and prints/woodcuts ready! they might ask you for those since those are hard) Make sure you know all your key terms for explaing the art, and that you know how to analyize the art too! That's very important! Know the purpose for certain bulidings too, like St. Peters for example.</p>