Homework: February 27 - March 5

Monday, February 28

Finish completing any of the slides notes we started in class last week from Baroque. 

Mid-Winter Break Assignment

Due: Tuesday, March 1

Mid-Winter Break Assignment

Long Essay Outlines –

Please complete each of the 10 long essay outlines. You need to find two works of art that fit each category, and give 3 reasons to back up your opinion. Make sure you are using Art Beyond the European Tradition (Africa, Oceania, the Americas, Indian, and Asia) when asked.

Part 2: Baroque Worksheet -

Please complete the chart. Fill in the most appropriate responses for each category: Italian, Spanish, Flanders, Dutch, & French.

Part 3: Baroque Architecture

Please complete the architecture worksheet for the Baroque time period. Make sure to discuss why the building was created, and what purpose it served.

Extra Credit:

Fill out the Renaissance chart with the appropriate information.

Assignment #67 - Due: Wednesday, March 2

Define:

Academy

Apotheosis

Fete galante

Pastel

Exemplum virtutis

Explain:

1.      How did the Enlightenment’s view of society influence the subject matter of art?

2.      Explain the argument between Rousseau and Voltaire concerning the Enlightenment and the nature of man.

3.      How is Hogarth's Marriage a la Mode series considered a 'moralizing' work of art?

4.      How did the Ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum spark the Neoclassical style?

5.      What was the Grand Tour? Explain.

6.      Why was Neoclassicism tied to the French Revolution?

Assignment #68 - Due: Thursday, March 3

Slide Notes - Part 1

Complete the slide notes.

For each piece of art, fully identify with title, artist, date, and time period. Include at least 3 facts about each piece. Think about its use as propaganda, funerary art, public art, religious art, who commissioned it, why was it made, and what purpose did it serve? 

Sketchbook Timeline Assignment

Due: Friday, March 4

Time Line of the Enlightenment – Chapter 28

(To be completed in your sketchbook)

Using the following categories, choose three works of art from each category. First, fully identify the category, and the major historical events that shaped the artwork during that time. How did the culture influence the art? Fully identify each piece of art you selected, and describe the distinguishing characteristics of each piece. In total, you will have discussed 15 specific pieces of artwork, and described 5 different time periods for a total of 20 points.

1.) Rococo (28-1 to 28-7)

2.) “A Taste of the Natural” (28-11 to 28-19)

3.) Neoclassicism (28-21 to 21-33)

4.) Romanticism (28-34 to 28-50)

5.) Photography (28-63 to 28-68)

Homework: February 13 -19

Assignment #64- Due: Monday, February 14

Slide Notes - Part 1

Complete the slide notes.

For each piece of art, fully identify with title, artist, date, and time period. Include at least 3 facts about each piece. Think about its use as propaganda, funerary art, public art, religious art, who commissioned it, why was it made, and what purpose did it serve? 

Assignment #65 - Due: Tuesday, February 15

Slide Notes – Part 2

Complete the slide notes.

For each piece of art, fully identify with title, artist, date, and time period. Include at least 3 facts about each piece. Think about its use as propaganda, funerary art, public art, religious art, who commissioned it, why was it made, and what purpose did it serve? 

Assignment #66 -Due: Wednesday, February 16

Short answer essay from 2006. 

Attibute this painting to an artist you have studied. Support your attribution by compaing this painting to another specific painting by the same artist. (10 minutes)

Short answer essay from 2008. 

The Baroque painting shown includes portrayls of both its patron and its artist.

Name the artist. Explain how the painting served the aims of both the artist and the patron. (10 minutes)

Sketchbook Timeline Assignment

Due: Thursday, Feb. 17

Time Line of Baroque Art

(to be completed in your sketchbook)

Using the following categories, choose three works of art from each category. First, fully identify the category, and the major historical events that shaped the artwork during that time. How did the culture influence the art? Fully identify each piece of art you selected, and describe the distinguishing characteristics of each piece. In total, you will have discussed 12 specific pieces of artwork, and described 4 different time periods for a total of 16 points.

1.)Italian Baroque

2.)Spanish Baroque

3.)Baroque in Flanders

4.) French Baroque

Sketchbook Assignment 
Due: Friday, February 18

Baroque Architecture vs. Frank Gehry

Baroque architecture witnessed a transition from the orderly designs of the Renaissance to one of tumultuous drama and movement. The architecture of Frank Gehry today marks a similar departure from the orderly forms of modernist architecture.  Select and fully identify a structure created during the Baroque period and a structure designed by the architect Frank Gehry.  Discuss how each structure reacted against an earlier architectural movement and why.

Short Answer Essay Slides

2001 Short Essay: These two works are by the same artist. Using both works, discuss ways in which the works reflect the artist’s medieval roots as well as his awareness of Italian Renaissance innovations. (10 minutes)

1999 Short Essay: The work on the left is Henry VIII (1540) by Hans Holbein the Younger, the work on the right is Chefren, created about 2500 BCE in Egypt. Discuss the ways in which the artists of these works convey the power and authority of each ruler. (10 minutes)

Homework: February 6 -12

Assignment #60 - Due: Monday, Feb. 7

Giovanni Bellini, in his continuous development as an artist, created what is known as the Venetian style of painting. 

Trace this development by briefly discussing influential artists, styles, and media. 

Describe the term sacra conversazione.  Give an example and justify your choice.

How do the style characteristics in the Venetian school artworks differ from the Florentine/Roman style? (Name 4 reasons)

Gardner describes Titian as the most prodigious and prolific of the great Venetian painters, in fact, among the very greatest painters of the Western world.

The Madonna of the Pesaro Family (22-36) shows Titian’s individual approach to composition as a variant of the High Renaissance style of Leonardo or Raphael. Explain. 

From the Venus of Urbino (22-61) one can see that Titian uses color as an element of more than mere description but also one that organizes the composition.  Explain

Assignment #61 Due: Tuesday, Feb. 8

What did the term mannerism refer to?

 How does the composition of Pontormo’s Decent From the Cross (22-42) shows characteristics of the Mannerist style?

What piece of sculpture sums up Italian and French Mannerism, and who sculpted it?  What is significant about it?

What church’s design was most influential on later church design and specifically Baroque church architecture? 

Contrast Tintoretto’s Last Supper (22-52) with Leonardo’s Last Supper (22-3).

What seems to have been the major influences on Palladio’s designs, especially on Villa Rotunda? 

 Both the Villa Rotunda and San Giorgio Maggiore are described as “examples of classicism at its most correct, using “rational,” organization. Explain.

Assignment #62 - Due: Wednesday, Feb. 9

16^th c. art in Spain & Northern Europe

Complete the slide notes.

For each piece of art, fully identify with title, artist, date, and time period. Include at least 3 facts about each piece. Think about its use as propaganda, funerary art, public art, religious art, who commissioned it, why was it made, and what purpose did it serve?

Assignment #63 - Due: Thurday, Feb. 10

Short answer essay from 1999.

Short answer essay from 2001.

These should each take you

10 minutes, so 20 minutes in total

Unit test - Friday, Feb. 11^th

Chapters 19, 20, 21, 22, 23

Please study!

 

www.googleartproject.com

This is a wonderful website, by Google, in which several museums are participating in. You can click on each museum, and then on the featured artwork, and be able to examine each piece in depth. Try it!