AP Art History

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AP Art History

• Kristen Erickson
• 2006-07
• Introduction

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Goal 1 Know your 3 Ss

• Subject/content/iconography
• What is it?
• What does it show?
• What does it mean?
• Style and technique
• How was it made?
• What materials were used?
• Significance
• What is the function or purpose of the object?
• Why is it unique?
• Who owned it/commissioned it?
• What does it tell us about the culture in which
  it was created?
• How was it received?

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Goal 2 Make cross-cultural connections

• Connections can be made in terms of
• Formal elements
• Subject matter/content
• How/why the works were commissioned
• How they were received

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• Left Yuny and His Wife, Renenutetca.
  1290-1270 B.C.E. New Kingdom, Egyptian Asyut,
  Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Right Duane Hanson, Tourists, 1988
• How are these two husband/wife portraits similar?
  
• How are they different?
• How are the artists goals similar/different?
• Are both art?

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• Above Zigguarat at Ur, c. 2100 BCE
• Right James Turrell, Roden Crater (after
  shaping), Arizona
• What connections can we make?

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• Above the Great Sphinx at Giza, c. 2520-2494 BCE
• Right the Great Sphinx, Las Vegas, at the Luxor
  Hotel
• Are both works of art? Why or why not?
• What are their respective functions?

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Left Vermeer, The Concert, 1658-1660, Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Right Leonardo da
Vinci, Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, called The
Mona Lisa, 1503-1506, Louvre
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Odalisque, 1814,
Louvre
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Left Ingres, Odalisque, 1814, Louvre Below
Guerrilla Girls, poster at the Venice Biennale,
2005 Both works of art caused a stir during
their time. Why?
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Left Nguni or Sotho peoples Lesotho, South
Africa, Early-mid 20th century Wood, iron,
National Museum of African Art, Washington,
DC Right Magritte's "The Betrayal of Images"
(1928-9) Also known as "The Treachery of Images,"
"Ceci n'est pas une pipe". Date 1928-29.
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Roy Lichtenstein, Whaam!, 1963, Acrylic and oil
on canvas support, Tate Gallery, Purchased
1966 Calvin and Hobbes cartoon
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Goal 3 Identify themes

• the body in art
• narrative in art
• sacred spaces, sacred art
• landscape
• high art vs. low art
• power and authority
• etc.