<p>No it isn’t; art from “the Americas” is, but that’s referring to art from indigenous cultures. Pueblo, Haida, Aztec, Mayan, etc…</p>
<p>American Gothic would fall under the European tradition category of Renaissance to Present in the Twentieth and Twenty-first centuries. European tradition doesn’t mean that the art is from Europe, it means that it is part of an evolutionary process which began in Europe.</p>
<p>FRQ’s are posted now as well.</p>
<p>I, for some reason, felt the MC was easy! I took two practice test from the Barron’s and some of the questions showed up on the test! I hope I killed MC!</p>
<p>Screwed up on two FRQ’s!</p>
<p>I used August of Primaporta and Andy Warhol’s “Mao” for the Propaganda question? is that okay?</p>
<p>I totally bs’ed question number nine! clueless!</p>
<p>What did you guys think?</p>
<p>I also left like 4-6 blank (can’t remember), well I did for almost all the AP test I took!</p>
<p>This was the most sadistic test I have ever taken.</p>
<p>Skipped question nine and BS’d 1/3 of the free response.</p>
<p>What period was the statue of Washington on free response from?</p>
<p>I was clueless about the church, but the statue of Washington was Neoclassical. I just talked about the fact that he was in a historically accurate uniform rather than a period costume, and that he had the bundle of fascii beside him.</p>
<p>A bundle of fascii? What is that? </p>
<p>I wrote that the sculpture was Neoclassical, because:
-of the column-like post he rests on.
-his body is in a contrapposto.
-the medium resembles that marble, which was a very popular choice of media for Classical sculpture.
-he looks idealized. George Washington was a leader, and Classical leaders were often idealized in their sculptures (Like Augustus of Primaporta). </p>
<p>Neoclassical = Revival of Classical traditions</p>
<p>I put Neoclassical, but I didn’t say he was idealized (fat belly) and I forgot to mention contrapposto >.<</p>
<p>I identified it as Neoclassicism, citing the column he rested on, the marble medium, and the look of authority, resting on a sword, recalling Roman imperial statues such as the Augustus of Primaporta.</p>
<p>A bundle of fascii (might be fascia?) is what he was leaning on, not a column. They were a symbol of Rome (later used in Mussolini’s Italy, hence Fascism). They were a symbol of the republic or something, and Houdon utilized them to symbolize the 13 (correct me if I’m wrong, not American lol) colonies that made up the early US. There are thirteen rods in the bundle he’s leaning on.</p>
<p>^ Well, I found out what you were trying to describe: fasces. Eh, I wrote that he was leaning on a column, but oh well. I have a feeling that this little blunder will have little effect on my final grade.</p>
<p>I’m really hoping for a 5 on this.</p>
<p>The funny thing is is that one of the FRQs on Mary Cassatt is directly parallel to one of the FRQs on the 2004 exam, which my class fortunately took as a mock exam. :)</p>
<p>I did bad on the Washington statue and the quilt, but the rest were easy.
I don’t know who said that Fauvist art wouldn’t work for the last essay, but it does if you tie it in with the quote. The prompt told you to use any Expressionist work. For mines, I used The Red Room by Matisse.</p>
<p>The long essays were also great:
For the non-western essay, I used the Mausoleum of the Samanids and indicated how the familial mausoleum expressed a cultural concern for lavish burial grounds–something that Muhammad looked down upon. For my European-based work, I used Cornelia Presenting Her Children as Treasures and discussed how it expressed the family as the greatest possession that any mother could have, not material belongings.</p>
<p>For the other essay, I used four examples with deep elaboration.
The pre-1900 works that I used were Realism: The Gleaners by Millet and The Third-Class Carriage by Daumier
For the post-1900 works, I used Night by Max Beckmann and The City by Leger which was a Futurist work.</p>
<p>The prompt was about Der Blaue Reiter and Kandinsky’s views on art, so you’re looking at spiritual qualities applied to colours, heavy abstraction and the idea of musical composition paralleling painting. </p>
<p>Fauvism did have elements of abstraction, and of course, extreme colour, but it lacked that purposeful application of spirituality to colours, as well as the links between music and painting. You might get some marks, but I doubt you’ll get full marks.</p>
<p>I used Picasso’s Les Demoiselles D’Avignon for the very last essay.</p>
<p>Did this fit the requirements for Expressionism and will I get credit for this?</p>
<p>I also said that the one picture of Jesus on the cross on the FRQ was Baroque when it was actually Mannerist, but I had a really good explanation justifying Baroque. Will this get me any credit at all?</p>
<p>On the first 30 minute writing with the family, for my non western choice I used the Terracotta Soldiers/ Army of Emperor Shi Huangdi and explained on a deep level how his army was his family. Would this get me credit at all? I knew this wasn’t a perfect choice and I should’ve used something like Shiva and his Family on Mount Kailasa, which would have been perfect if I would have remembered it…</p>
<p>Demoiselles D’Avignon is Cubist; you probably won’t get points for it.</p>
<p>There are lots of similarities between Mannerist and Baroque art, so if you mentioned things like complex composition and theatrical lighting you’ll probably get points for that.</p>
<p>For the George Washington prompt, I failed miserably. After a brief mention of contrapposto, a bit of a relationship between his depiction and that of Roman veristic portraits, and the moralistic tone of the sculpture that set it in the Neoclassical time period, the essay pathetically petered out into recycled crap.</p>
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I did as well.</p>
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Well, I know I failed already. :)</p>
<p>I think I got about 85-95 MC right out of 115 (skipped 3 I think) and did OK on the essays (say I got 1/2-3/4 of the credit possible in terms of points)</p>
<p>What do you think my score will be?</p>
<p>How will the curve be this year in your opinion?</p>
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<p>Jessebomb, we must have used the same book or something. I also used “Krishna and Radha” and “Guernica”. I even started off using “The Third of May”, but realized I didn’t remember the story very well, so switched to another painting.</p>
<p>And I TOO mistakened the FRQ for some sort of Impressionism! Well, that is, post-impressionism. I actually wrote half an essay on Van Gogh before crossing the entire thing out.</p>
<p>All in all, it was a decent test. Some questions were ridonk though. I do NOT understand why it was necessary to learn about Hogarth’s alternate means of income.</p>