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1 AP Art History Students learn to use terms and concepts: The processes & words that artists and critics use to describe visual life: (art and architecture) Students discuss the topography of Images: Or, peel the proverbial onion of potential resources and possible responses to works of art

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2 "The act of representation is more of a dialogue than a monologue, more of a conversation than a lecture" (1983). With the arts, children learn to see sophisticated We want our children to have basic skills. But they also will need sophisticated cognition, and they can learn that through the visual arts. Quality over quantity Elliot Eisner. Professor Emeritus of Education at Stanford University.

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3 In, The Arts and the Creation of Mind (2002), Elliot Eisner, professor of education and art at Stanford University, writes Experience is central to growth because experience is the medium of education. Education, in turn, is the process of learning to create ourselvesWork in the arts is not only a way of creating performances and products; it is a way of creating our lives by expanding our consciousness, shaping our dispositions, satisfying our quest for meaning, establishing contact with others, and sharing culture. (p. 3)

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Connecting Visual and Verbal Literacy Speak and write with appropriate Use of Art Formalisms: When you talk about art, consider how the elements and principles of art and design are deployed to communicate. Elements are parts: (lines, shapes, colors, forms, textures, spaces, value, etc.). Principles apply to the whole. (rhythm, balance, proportion, emphasis, and unity). In speaking and writing, we will pair elements and principles, using word phrases like value + contrast for example. Or, we could use rhythmic + line or movement.

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5 lines and contours used to make textures and forms

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Composing forms & the classical pyramid

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Historical and Cultural Literacy Students will interpret historical and contextual connections: Learn to analyze the importance of artistic technologies & techniques. For example, in15 th Cent Germany the wood block print and engravings did as much as printing press to communicate Western Religion to the intended audience. On the following slide, compare the combined religious, literary, and artistic impact of contemporaries, Martin Luther and Albrecht Durer

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Durers symbolisms of Christian Humanism Personifications of a Catholic artist, influenced by Protestantism, surmised in Durers diary reference to Martin Luther as `that Christian man who has helped me out of great anxieties''.

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Art History: Art History: How old is it? Why is it important to know; and so what then? How old? (4 types of chronological evidence): 1) physical evidence (dating the materials); 2) documentary record (a dated written account with it) 3) visual evidence (period clothing and decorative arts) 4) stylistic evidence (the way the art looks; the art historians special area of professional expertise is often personally biased) What is a style, also called a movement: Period style Period style refers to the characteristics that unify an artistic manner of approach that is repeated and refined across a culture or a time. Regional style, Regional style, sometimes associated with provenance, refers to where a certain group of art works come from geographically Personal style: Personal style: El Greco or Georgia OKeefe: personal styles figured prominently in the development of 20 th century modernisms.

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Style Wars in the French Salon (Les Academies Des Beaux Arts ): Poussinistes Rubenistes Style Wars in the French Salon (Les Academies Des Beaux Arts ): The Poussinistes (below) vs. the Rubenistes (rt)

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11 Georgia OKeefe El Greco, late 16 th c. Personal Style

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12 Personal & Regional Thomas Hart Benton: Personal & Regional

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13 American Gothic by Grant Wood

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14 Classical Revival is a great example of Period Style that evolves into Regional Styles in Art & Architecture Original Federal Period of 1780s and 1790s Thomas Cole founding the Hudson River Valley School of Painters of the Upper Hudson & Niagara Valleys, respectively. The Neoclassicism of Thomas Jefferson Regional Variations on the classical revivals of Greek styled buildings in the American North and South in the early 1800s

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15 American Classicizing Transcendentalist: Thomas Coles Course of Empires, 1830s

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16 Greek Revival in the U.S. began with Jeffersons efforts to revive the classical past during Americas new Constitutional Period (1785 to 1792), now called the Federal Period (Virginia State Capitol).

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17 Detail from Jeffersons State Capitol

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18 Period Style Greek Revival Period Style in Public Buildings 1824 Second Bank of the United States, by William Strickland 1832 Chapel, UGA

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19 Regional Styles Greek Revival Regional Styles in American Architecture of the 19 th Century Greek Revival home in Marshall built 1838; oldest brick residence in Michigan

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20 More than a Ninja TurtleLeonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael #26 thru 28

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21 What style is Caravaggio?

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22 Claude Monet, Impression Sunrise, 1872 One of the first MODERN Paintings?...

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23 What do you remember about Van Gogh? Is there much more to say about him?

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24 Dalis Surrealism, The Persistence of Memories

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25 What medium or approach to art is this?

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26 #38

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27 F-111, from the art movement of American Consumerism in the 1960s How did Pop Art influence Pop Culture, and vice versa?

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28 III.

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29 Ladies Jeans Pockets: An extra credit opp.

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30 Reductive Michelangelo s Prisoners

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31 Additive (Lost Wax Bronzes of Benin Culture and Rodin)

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32 Learn to read architectural plans & elevations

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Non-Western Perspective in a Japanese Silk Painting Van Gogh. Flowering plum tree Japonaiserie (1887). (Asian influence in the West)

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34 Delightfully different goals from Western Art!

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35 Winslow Homer. The New Novel (1877). Watercolor Museum Visit Example Hope that you will sign up, and I look forward to seeing each of you in enrolled in my AP Art History course! THANK YOU FOR COMING TONIGHT!!!