Summer Work 2019


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Skyline High School AP Art History Summer Work 2019


Welcome to AP Art History! This course will take us through time and all over the world. Summer work is designed to introduce you to a broad range of art and its many forms. Please stop into A215 for supplies. For Summer work you will need to:

1. Construct your AP Art History Flashcards

2. Read The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to the Present (2007) and personally add annotations, and

3. Create 2 museum visits write-up on art pieces of your choice using the guidelines below.

                  Before we begin to dive into the Summer Work, it is recommended to watch the video https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/introduction-ap-arthistory/v/why-look-at-art. Understand that visual acumen (keenness) is only part of what we will need to have to be successful in AP Art History.

 

AP Art History Flashcards

                  Please pick up your 5 x 7 flashcards, glue sticks and prints of the images from me in A215 on Friday June 8th. Instructions of what is required will be given to you. However, if you are unable to pick it up than you will need to acquire 300- 5 x 7 index cards, several glue sticks and print the image pages in color for all 250 images found at https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/pdf/ap-art-history-course-and-exam-description-0.pdf?course=ap-art-history. Flashcards need to be constructed before the first day.

                  The purpose of constructing the flashcards with the 250 images is to have visual familiarity and names to go with the art pieces we will be studying. The front (unlined) of the card will have the image number and the image only. The back of the card will have the number, the title, place of origin, date and material(s).

The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to the Present (2007)

                  Please read the text and annotate on the copy you get from me. There is a newer version but for the purpose of getting ready to make connections with art and by reading about it you will have a better idea of how to write about it. Visit the site for ideas on how to annotate: https://sites.google.com/a/sayvilleschools.org/mrs-cierski-s-english-8-class/how-to-annotate-a-text-mark-it-up. Make sure to underline or highlight titles, dates, material and culture or location. Look for content, context, form and function. A description of these attributes are in the Museum Visit Write-up.

Museum Visits Write-ups

The purpose of this exercise is to help you interact with 2 pieces of artwork of your choice. You will need to visit at least one museum (you can pick two pieces on this visit if you have to) but feel free to go to as many as you can and it can be anywhere. These pieces can be paintings, architecture, sculpture, or even an artifact that has cultural relevance. Before you begin it is best to review the elements and principles of design (https://skyineaparthistory.blogspot.com/p/elements-and-principles-of-design.html) and go through the ppt to understand what content, context, form and function mean (https://skyineaparthistory.blogspot.com/p/context-content-forma-and-function.html).

Your write-up must include the following:

1.      The image, title, place of origin, date and material(s).

2.      Information on your impression (Visual Thinking Strategy- Look at the artwork silently for a few minutes and write down what you see (describe). What's going on in the art piece (analyze)? What do you see in the art (interpret/ prior knowledge)? What makes you think that? What value does the piece have (evaluate/ judge)?)

3.      Look at the content of the artwork. Next look at the room in which the artwork is placed and where it came from to extract the context. Now look at the form and determine the function.

4.      Complete more research online to sum up the depth in which your analysis is complete. Be descriptive and make sure to give the reader a connection to the work.

More detailed guidelines for structure of your paper as well as a sample can be found here: https://skyineaparthistory.blogspot.com/p/guidelines-for-analysis-of-art.html. This is a practice for you and will help throughout the course.

Upload to your Google Classroom:

FOR YOUR INFORMATION

Below you will find dates I will be at University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) located at 525 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 just in case you want to join me as I work with UMMA to create our field trips:

Dates for UMMA visits:

The Six Senses of Buddhism
Sunday June 30th 2pm-4pm
Docent Tour 2pm-3pm

African Art Gallery- Second Floor
Tuesday July 2nd 3pm-5pm

Abstraction, Color and Politics: The 1960’s and 1970’s- A. Alfred Taubman Gallery II- Second Floor
Thursday July 18th 2pm-4pm

Western Art UMMA
Tuesday July 30th 2pm-4pm


Other nearby Art Museums to visit:

MSU’s Broad Museum
547 E Circle Dr.
East Lansing, MI 48824
The actual building was done by the Architect Zaha Hadid who is  the creator of image #249 so there is a great connection to attach this to.

DIA
5200 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI

Toledo Art Museum
2445 Monroe Street
Toledo, Ohio

Kelsey Museum of Archeology
434 S State St
Ann Arbor, MI