*OFFICIAL* 2012-2013 AP Art History Thread

<p>I think the test is getting progressively every year. The MC is quite easy too</p>

<p>Sweet Jesus thank you, I didn’t know if I was believing what I wanted to see. Were your essay’s short for the Arch of Constantine one? There wasn’t that much to put for me at least.</p>

<p>Yeah, the arch essay was maybe half a page for me, and I have large handwriting.</p>

<p>I put that as well. It’s correct.</p>

<p>Yeah, for Constantine, you could have basically said :

  • dominance over past rulers, Hadrian, Trajan, etc
  • death of artistic development
  • he was a military ruler </p>

<p>The Humanist one was so easy though
I was sad that there was no modern architecture :(</p>

<p>did u lichtensten for the narrative i couldnt think of any post 1800 then i realized that the third of may was post 1800 after the exam…</p>

<p>Aw man, that sucks. I actually used Goya’s “Third of May” for it, as well as the “Victory Stele of Naram-Sin.”</p>

<p>Unfortunately, for the very last FRQ, I used Duchamp’s “Fountain” and realized that it was pre-1960 after I finished the exam.</p>

<p>A lot of people in my school finished the exam with substantial time to spare, which makes me hope that they didn’t have anything to write, which would ultimately give a good curve. All I need is a three.</p>

<p>Hope you all did well.</p>

<p>@wtrwhp, well then kenneth i’m not to sure.</p>

<p>omg you guys the last FRQ…I literally looked at it, put my head down, and silently screamed. The prompt was something along the lines of “pick a piece that dates after 1960 that relates to the quote [about how humans are so reliant on technology]–the piece can be in any medium, whether it be film, photography, etc.” I was going to write about Tinguely’s Homage to New York, but I didn’t know much about it, and I wasn’t sure if it was considered “technology.”
After writing the most vague description of the piece, I said “screw it” and wrote about Cyborg from Teen Titans (but I rationalized it by saying there was Japanese influence and that it was animation). I equated that to writing my death sentence, but then I conferred with my other friends. One wrote about the Matrix, another wrote about Wall-e, and another made up a piece.
We come from such a prestigious school and this is what we give</p>

<p>Would you guys consider Napoleon in the Pesthouse at Jaffa a narrative?</p>

<p>Would The Homeless Plight projection be good?</p>

<p>also would Beuy’s “How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare” be considered a narrative? Because he kind of is telling a story…idk</p>

<p>The Beuys one would have been good for technology. Performance art ftw. I did Oath of Horatii and Liberty Leading the People. Is that good?</p>

<p>It most definitely is a narrative.</p>

<p>BTW, does this forum not use the quote feature? I keep trying to quote users yet in never appears in my replies…</p>

<p>I put the Disney Concert Hall for that last one. Made something up about it being a bridge between the technological Deconstructivism exterior and the time-honored tradition of classical music.</p>

<p>I used Hogarth’s Breakfast Scene for the narrative, which worked decently. Gauguin’s Where Do We Come From? though? gg. I vaguely remember it being right to left, said something about the Eve figure representing the fall of humanity and the blue god statue thing showing that all religions are lies and his disillusionment and attempted suicide soon after. It was pretty much a long run on sentence like that.</p>

<p>What about the mosque? I repeated that the courtyard was used for prayer three times and said the large interior was used for “religious congregation characteristic to Islam.”</p>

<p>Classic mosque question:

  • quibla wall pointing to Mecca, place of the prophet Muhammad
  • mihrab in quibla wall, decorated, focal point of prayer
  • large courtyard for procession, encourage interaction w/public
  • minarets are towers which project sound, call community to prayer 5x a day
  • hypostyle hall creates rhythm, breaks up space, lots of room to lay prostate to ground as part of prayer (discuss significance)
  • large walls with sparse decoration - no zoomorphism - separate divine realm with mortal realm</p>

<p>Oh man, for the last question I BS’d it so hard. I couldn’t remember (more like didn’t know a lot of art works that was post-1960) any works of art so I just chose Oldenburg’s Spoonbridge and Cherry and /forcefully/, attempted to make sense. LOL
And, in retrospect, I think I wrote down Bridgespoon and Cherry instead. ;__;</p>

<p>But I thought the MC was easier than expected! I finished both parts A and B with a lot of time left… ;~;</p>

<p>MC was surprisingly easier than I thought. Do you guys think it’ll be easy to get a 3 on this exam?</p>

<p>Guggenheim Museum by Frank Gehry is a good response for the last frq</p>