ART102: Second Study Guide

Spring 2007

 

Stokstad Readings:

Chapter 20: Sixteenth Century Art in Italy

              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

 

Wren, Perspectives

                  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.