ART102: Second Study Guide
Spring 2007
Chapter 22: Baroque Art
Chapter
26: Art of the Americas (section on North America, the Great Plains)
Chapter
29: Eighteenth Century Art in Europe and the Americas
Skokstad
Boxed Topics to Know:
1. The
Vitruvian Man
2. St
Peter's Basilica
3. Women
Patrons of the Arts
4. Science
and the Changing World View
5. Academies
and Academy Exhibitions
6. Women
and Academies
Chapter
2: Sixteenth Century Italian Art
Chapter
5: Baroque Art in Italy, France and England
Chapter
6: Baroque Art in the Netherlands and Spain
Chapter
7: Eighteenth Century Art
Additional
Topics to Know:
1. Honor
Shirts. Materials, techniques, designs, functions, meanings.
2. Images
for the female viewer in the Renaissance. We particularly discussed images of
childbirth and marriage appearing in church murals, on the marriage chest and
the childbirth tray. We discussed the subjects of the images, the effect that the
sight of them was intended to have on the viewer and the visual parallels to
images intended for male viewers.
Format of Exam
1. Slide
Identifications (5-8)
Artist
|
Title
|
Location (if architecture) |
Time
Period
|
Beginning
Date of
Period |
Ending date
Of Period
|
2. Short
Essay drawn from Stokstad Boxed Topics or Additional Topics
3. Long
Essay
I will ask you to identify an artwork as
in question 1.
I
will than define a series of topics posed by the art work about which you will
write. These topics will include some or all of the following (as appropriate)
Style (use
of light, color, volume, depth, perspective systems, composition, and other
visual qualities)
Subject (Biblical?
Literary?)
Relevance and/or Significance of subject
to audience of artwork
Symbolism
Comparison between this work and earlier
or later art works by same artist
Relevant document from Perspectives on
Western Art from appropriate time period or from other readings on course
syllabus, again from appropriate time period.
Since
you are required to read Robert Bates' article, "Coffee, Oppression, and
Images" for Viewing Assignment 4, you can not select it as the relevant
document on the exam.