Ghent Alterpiece Website

Van Eyck's famous "Ghent Alterpiece" has been under restoration for the past year. The conservation team has uploaded an interactive website. Check it out HERE!

Mid-Winter Break and February 26- March 3, 2012

If you need any of these sheets, you need to email me over break! Do not tell me on Monday the 27th, that you forgot everything in your locker!

Mid-Winter Break Assignment: Due on Monday, February 27

Part 1:

Long Essay Outline –

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 to.

Part 2:

Sketchbook Timeline -

In the back of your sketchbook, please create a timeline with the images that you have received.  Identify the style, the time of that style, and then ID each piece of artwork. This needs to be in chronological order, starting with Ancient Near East and ending with the Renaissance! See example below!

Tuesday, February 28: Assignment #87

Architecture Box Sheet

Complete the box sheet. This will be a good wrap-up/summary for the architecture of the Baroque Period. For each piece of art, fully identify with title, artist, date, and time period. Include the function, style, and significance about each piece.

Sketchbook Timeline Assignment #88

Due:  Wednesday, March 2

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

Thursday, March 1: Assignment #89

Short answer essay from 2006. (Vermeer)

Short answer essay from 2008. (Velazquez)

These should each take you

10 minutes, so 20 minutes in total.

Friday, March 2: Sketchbook Assignment #90

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.

Homework February 12-18, 2012

Monday, February 13: Assignment #82

Slide Notes

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?

You will have to look closely at the works of art as they are small details of the work!

Tuesday, February 14

Unit test

Chapters 19, 20, 21, 22, 23

Please study!

Wednesday, February 15: Assignment #83

Guided Questions:

Hindu Art

Complete the guided questions for chapter on artwork in India, which is the latter half of chapter 6.

Thursday, February 16: Assignment #84

Venn Diagram

Please complete the Venn Diagram for the two important Hindu temples. Use images 6-22 and 6-29.

How do these building reflect the needs of the religion?

Friday, February 17: Assignment #85

Boxed Sheet-Baroque

Please complete the box sheet for the Baroque chapter. Discuss the historical influence for each country. How is culture reflected in the artwork?

This will help us with an activity that we will be doing on Friday.

You are welcome to use your review book!

 

Mona Lisa: Revealed!

A new discovery about Mona Lisa- Check out this article from the BBC!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16835270

NPR: The Medicis

Please read and listen to the NPR discussion on the importance of the Medici family and banking during the early Renaissance:

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/31/145731770/in-italy-art-as-a-window-into-modern-banking

February 5-11, 2012

Monday, Feb. 6: Assignment #77

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.

Tuesday, February 7: Assignment #78

Complete the 9 box sheet on the Ghent altarpiece. It discusses this work on pages 551-553. This is an important piece of artwork!  Notice that there are 2 images for it, 20-5 and 20-6.

Wednesday, February 8: Assignment #79

Please complete the worksheet on patrimony. Use an example from the Italian Renaissance, the Northern Renaissance, an ABET work, and a pre-Renaissance work.

Thursday, Feb 9: Assignment #80

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?

Friday, February 10: Assignment #81

Short answer essay from 1999

Short answer essay from 2001.

These should each take you

10 minutes, so 20 minutes in total. Not all of the images are in your text, you will need to use other sources of information.