<p>^Generally, I think that should be enough. If questions on religious architecture are asked, I would advise that you know a few big ones (Durham & Salisbury for English examples; Chartres and Notre Dame for French; Pisa and Milan for Italy; and a German one if you can fit it in). If you don’t know it, though, then go through the main characteristics that you do know.</p>
<p>And this was a completely unhelpful, rambling post. I apologize. Just know characteristics, okay?</p>
<p>Why would we lose points for leaving answers blank? That is definitely false for all tests. </p>
<p>I hope you’re right about Gothic cathedrals. I can’t tell the difference between them. They all look the same after a while!</p>
<p>^Well, try and differentiate between early Gothic (jamb statues on Chartres), middle/high Gothic (Notre Dame), and late Gothic/Flamboyant (Milan). Don’t kill yourself over it, though; it’s bound to be only a small portion of the exam. Breathe, relax, go to sleep, and realize that this’ll be naught but a bad dream in 24 hours.</p>
<p>I have a long night of cramming ahead of me. @_@</p>
<p>WHAT THE EFF, ART HISTORY, ***. Soooo freaking hard to cram, and I forgot everything, and ■■■ this isn’t gonna be possible D:</p>
<p>^^i know, right? all the different buildings and paintings and sculptures start looking the same to me after a while.</p>
<p>For the beyond the European influence I talked about Gauguin’s “Where to we come from? Where are we going?” since it was set in Tahiti. is that acceptable?</p>
<p>The MC was hard!</p>
<p>Yeah, I agree that the MC was harder. </p>
<p>Two long essays:</p>
<p>First one was a little hard to think about: I had to give in and use an Egyptian example, a relief of Akhenaton and Nefertiti. Unfortunately I confused Goya’s portrait of Charles IV’s family with Velazquez’s Las Meninas. We’ll see how that ends up.</p>
<p>Second one I used the statue of Augustus of Primaporta and Duchamp’s Fountain.</p>
<p>WHAT THE HELL.
That exam was absurd. Absolutely ridiculous, I do declare. For the first, I used Burning of the Sanjo Palace and Unique Forms of Continuity in Space. For the second essay, I used Cornelia Presenting her children as her treasures and a statuette of a Congo mother and her child from late 19th-early 20th. </p>
<p>I failed. No question about it.</p>
<p>QUESTION:</p>
<p>1) For someone self-studying, what would you recommend for: a) prep book, b) textbook, and c) anything I haven’t considered?</p>
<p>I have a moderately strong background in art history. Specifically, I know around 300 artworks from the prehistoric era to the beginning of Baroque, and then from Social Realism to ~1980. All my knowledge concerns Western art, however.</p>
<p>Get the Barron’s book and supplement it with Gardner’s (you can get it off Amazon at a decent price). Practice is key here; don’t go in blind like I did. Get used to sitting down for hours at a time and having your brain destroyed.</p>
<p>They won’t count a painting by Gauguin as non-Western. It does not matter where it was produced since it was painted by a European and represents a European viewpoint.</p>
<p>I ended up using Jan van Eyck’s “Arnolfini Wedding” and Haida Totem-poles for the first question. For the second I used the Dome of the Rock and Barbara Kruger’s “Untitled (Your Body is a Battleground)”</p>
<p>I found the multiple choice ranged from incredibly easy to relatively difficult. I still think I got the majority of them; I left about 5 blank.</p>
<p>^I left approximately 3 blank. I’m banking on 10-15 wrong out of my ~20 educated guesses.</p>
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<p>This is true, unfortunately.</p>
<p>Yeah, I feel like I’m in the same boat in regards to guesses.</p>
<p>That went so much better than expected. Although I may have messed up the essays a bit. I used Las Meninas and Suzuki Haranobu’s wood prints for the first. And of course I couldn’t think of David or Daumier for the second essay, so I used Boccioni and Terra Cotta Warriors. Haha. Hope it works.</p>
<p>To the poster above, I don’t think Gauguin is considered beyond European influence, although it was painted in Tahiti, he is considered Post-Impressionism and is European. </p>
<p>I am a bit worried about the story quilt. Weak essay.</p>
<p>I think you’ll be fine for the second essay, as the prompt gave a lot of flexibility. David or Daumier would have been ideal, but there is a LOT of art that could be easily justified. Boccioni would have been a bit difficult to use I think, but I can see a well justified essay getting full points.</p>
<p>I was really glad the prompts were so open-ended this year; such a nice surprise. </p>
<p>Quilt essay I initially thought I had done well on, but looking back I’m not so sure.</p>
<p>@ksarmand - Thank you!</p>
<p>^No problem. :)</p>
<p>All of my essays were nothing but B.S. I made three points each relating to various aspects of the questions, and then rambled on and on about just about nothing. Not expecting higher than 3 on this one.</p>
<p>Dear God, I hope I get a happy surprise in July.</p>
<p>I used kandinsky as the example on the last short answer . Would that be ok??</p>
<p>^Well, that’s better than what I did; at least you didn’t put down flippin’ Mondrian!</p>