<p>I was just wondering because I was considering to independent study it just for the heck of it [I don't want to have an empty period for colleges to see] so I was thinking of taking AP Art? </p>
<p>Is it independent-study-able? haha.</p>
<p>I moved in the middle of the year I was taking that class to a school that didn’t offer…anything close. (Seriously, our “art history” class was cutting and pasting pictures to make a scrapbook. I wanted to choke myself, and the teacher.)
Anyway I basically self-studied from Romanticism on. And I will say that it was very difficult. I don’t think that there are any straight Art History review books (I could be wrong by now though). The only concepts I was solid on were those I had learned from my actual AP Art History teacher. A lot of the class is interaction and exploration of techniques used and why, which is difficult to do without a teacher. If you can find a GREAT book to study with, go for it, because the subject matter is interesting…but it may not seem that way without a proper teacher.
Is there a college course or some thing like that you could consider?</p>
<p>I hear that if you get the annotated Mona Lisa you can expect to get a good grade on the exam. I know a few people who’ve self-studied it and have gotten 4’s and 5’s.</p>
<p>i had a great AP teacher who really prepared me, which is the reason i got a 5. I studied for two days before hand (crammed about 3000 years of art history in two days)…but if i hadn’t had the great teacher i would have been doomed. Personally, i LOVE the subject and i think there is no possible way to really learn the subject without a teacher. Our teacher taught us that there was no way for us to learn ALL the art that could possibly be on the test, so our job was to learn styles and have a really good general understanding of artists and time periods so that when we saw stuff on the AP test we had not learned, we would be able to figure it out. yes, you can memorize facts and paintings on your own, but you cant teach yourself HOW to look at art. If you don’t want a free period, self study AP envisci or psych or something, but wait to take art history in college if you are actually interested in the subject, you will get a lot more out of it.</p>
<p>its pretty basic. its like middle school AP english for art, if you get what i mean. hmmn. that almost makes no sense. whatever</p>
<p>I’m kinda worried about taking AP Art History this upcoming school year!
I heard it’s harder than it looks. </p>
<p>I have The Annotated Mona Lisa. It is great, and I’m not an art person at all.</p>
<p>idk what van_sant is talking about. It’s definitely NOT that easy. I thought that it was actually very difficult, especially self-studied. The AP exam is predictable, however. If you study the questions from past years, you might be able to pull it off. I took it online (basically self-studied), finished it in January, and studied REA for 2 days straight with little break and got a 4. It’s possible, but hard.</p>
Is this a fine arts class? Would it satisfy the requirement?