AP Art History Summer Work 2017 Mrs. Childers
Email me with any questions! Use 1edmodo for general questions as others probably have the same ones. I will be responding all summer!
Five for a Five Summer Work
Congratulations on taking a class that you will use your whole life! I am so happy yo signed up. Words of wisdom – don’t wait until the last minute to do anything for this class. This applies to the summer assignment and the rest of the year. We haveabout 20 students that have signed up. We could use a few more students who are up for the challenge. Tell your friends and get them to hang out with you in this class!
This class is both a traditional discussion based class, but includes projects along the way. I feel you learn best through projects. You will share the information you have learned in class with others in the class. We work as a team to produce a book of required images for studying called Snapshots. These will be the images that will be tested, but they are only a small representation of the history of art. Therefore, we will learn about all the art and its characteristics to fully understand the selected works.
We will have a fun time in this class, but it will require work. It is a college class. II treat you as the adults that you are. That means you will have deadlines you need to meet. I want the class to be collaborative, not lecture based with me in the front of the class. I will do that, but you will also be presenting what you have learned. We will have food days, museum days and hopefully if we can, a few art activities! Also, next year I will be taking students to Italy! If you want to come with me, I can send your parents information. I do this for my art students and everyone else at the school.
Project 1: Communication:You will use Edmodo for class communication and for work. We use this site for questions, communication, scheduling and for uploading work.
Before August 7, you will create an account. Place a photo of yourself in your account. Here is the code for signup:
join Edmodo first:
- Group Code:
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After you have signed in and set up your account, I want you to post a note to the class.
Answer the following questions so I and others can get to know you. Read through other posts to get to know our classmates.
1.Why did you take this class?
2.Why should we study art? Write a response to this before you watch the video. Then watch this quick video
3.What is your definition of art?
4.Are you creative and how do you show this? (It does not need to be art related)
5.Are you a “Lone Wolf” or a part of the “Pack”? Support your statement with details and reasons.
6.(If you are a music person, please tell me. I would like to include music from certain periods of art and would like you to help me do this)
Project 2: Museum Visit – Due Week of August 7
This project will be graded on the completion of the requirements.
You are to visit an art museum over the summer. Try to find one you have never visited preferably in a place you are going for vacation. Find a major museum and go visit this with your family.
(LeMoyne can work for your Tallahassee museum or FSU Museum of Art)
You will create a PowerPoint based on an exhibition that you saw.
Your first slide will incorporate your name, a picture of yourself, the exhibition title and place/date of your exhibition.
First look through the exhibition and find 6works from the exhibition – paintings and sculpture – that have meaning to you.They can be works that you either like or dislike. Some should be pieces you find either confusing, irrelevant (to you), wonder why the heck it’s in the museum at all.
For each work:Copy down the vital stats – Title, Artist, Date, Medium (take a picture of work and stats) Find information about the piece in the gallery through the didactics or through a catalog.
On the next slide: Summarize the facts that you found about the work. Type at least three facts about the artist and the artwork. Find out which art movement (if applicable) the piece is associated with.
On the next slide type why you chose that work.
Why do you like it or why do you dislike it? What is interesting or what do you think about the work? What is your first impression of each piece? What do you find appealing or unappealing and why? What do you know about the artist? What do you learn by standing in front of each piece?
Continue using this format for next 5 artworks
Upload the Powerpoint to Edmodo by the week of August 10. Send any questions you have to In the subject line, type your name and AP Question.
Project 3: Introduction Chapter Notes
The Elements and Principles of Design/Book Notes
You will be learning the Basic vocabulary used to describe art in the Introductory Chapter. For each chapter we study, we will learn needed vocabulary as this helps to understand the works and processes.
Do not wait to do this.
Using the book assigned to you, read the introduction chapter. This gives you an overview of how art is viewed and discussed. Use this first chapter to understand the basic Elements and Principles used in discussing works.
Book Notes:Create notes from the reading. When you take notes, include each of the subheads from the chapter. Then summarize under it. Underline the subhead and create a summary of your reading. These book notes will be placed in your notebook for grading. I need to see how you take notes. You do not have to take notes on the Elements and Principles as you will be doing that in the project below. Your notes will include the additional information you learn from the reading.
We will read each chapter from this book. If you want to read over the summer, go ahead. We will also be taking notes on each chapter. I want you to understand that I cannot teach you everything in our class discussions. You must read and take notes for each chapter. Gaining knowledge is our goal and I need you to commit to this challenge. This is a college class. Reading is required. We will cover the material in class, but will not have enough time to cover it ALL.
Due Day 5 of first week.
Read the IntroductionChapter first to get an overview of the Elements and Principles and how they work in the art world. Use the definitions from the book for your project below. Add any other words to this list that you do not know from the reading. For each chapter, we will be generating a vocabulary list.
Next, using WORD, you will type and define each of the following art terms (SEE BELOW). You will also look up an art image that exemplifies the term and place the images next to the term and definition. Make the images thumbnail size (no larger than 1.5” x 1.5”) (helpful hint: use the table option in WORD and just insert the picture in a thumbnail version – small) Do the best you can for your choices.
You are to find the ones that best exemplify each term. Use the table below for your example. You can even copy and paste it into WORD. You cannot use the work more than once nor the ones that are in the book.
Title the page: Elements and Principles of Design
Project 4: Your Notebooks and how to set them up
Due Day 5 of class
You will create2 notebooks for use in class. These notebooks will hold all of your book notes with images, worksheets, and class handouts and Snapshots. Over the summer, buy two 2” inch notebooks with a clear front cover. Then fill one notebook with 35 dividers and the other notebook will be used to hold your Snapshots (I will go over this in class). We will discuss this later.
The first notebook will be your Classwork notebook. Your first divider will be for your introduction vocabulary and book notes. You will label it: Introduction.
Each tab or divider will then be labeled by the Chapters in your book. The second tab will begin with Chapter 1. Create a cover image for both of your notebooks. One notebook cover image will be labeled Classwork. The other will be labeled Snapshots. Your name will also be large on both of them. Slide this into the front covers. The Snapshot notebook will later be used. It will be turned in at the end of each semester for a grade and will hold all the Snapshots we create.
Next, create a spine that also has your name on it. This will help in finding your notebook in class. Label it by your name, nice and large.
You can make the dividers if you want.One idea that works best: Use clear page protectors and fill with a title. (Introduction, Chapter Two etc.) This will help you organize. The latest chapter and divider will always be on top so when I grade, I will not have to dig down to find your work.
You will keep these notebooks in class and on the day of your tests, you will place all your notes etc. behind the divider for grading purposes. The Notebook will be due on the day of the test and will constitute your Notebook grade.
Your Snapshot Notebookwill be a place where you collect your Snapshots for studying for the tests, midterm and the final exam. You will keep this at home. After your chapter notebook has been graded, I would take your Snapshots out of that Notebook and put them into your Snapshot notebook. When you turn them in, they will be sequenced chronologically by number. I will grade this notebook in December and May.
Bring the Classwork notebook to class with the Elements and Principles of Design Illustrated Vocabulary and Introduction chapter notes placed in the Introduction section. Throughout the year, I will be giving you handouts to three hole punch and add to this notebook for completion and for grading.
Due Day 3 of class.
Grading: You must follow directions to get an A on all projects.
VOCABULARY FOR ILLUSTRATED VOCAB PROJECT
Elements of Art – Basic Building Blocks
1.Color/Hue
(Define major terms (numbered) like color, space etc, but only find examples for the subcategory terms below (a., b.). If you do not know what they mean, then define them. Each artwork will have multiple elements, but choose the one that best exemplify the term)
a.Primary colors (hue) example
b.Secondary colors
c.Intermediate colors – define and find example.
d.Analogous colors – define and find example.
e.Complementary colors – define and find example.
f.Warm colors
g.Cool colors
h.Find a monochromatic color scale (value)
i.Intensity/saturation – define and find an image that uses intense colors
j.Expressive color
2.Space
a.Linear Perspective: One point perspective
b.Linear Perspective: Two point perspective
c.Atmospheric perspective
d.Hierarchy of scale
3.Shape
a.Positive shape vs negative shape – figure – For a and b – put one work in the chart and identify which is the positive shape and what is the negative shape or space.
b.Geometric/rectilinear shapes
c.Organic/curvilinear shapes
4.Texture
a.Physical texture
b.Visual - Rough texture
c.Visual - Smooth texture
5.Value
a.High contrast
b.Grayscale value scale – (b&w photo)
c.Chiaroscuro
6.Lines
a.Curved - organic
b.Directional lines
c.Contour lines
d.Expressive lines
e.Implied lines
f.Calligraphic lines
g.Hatching lines
h.Cross hatching lines
7.Form
a.Additive
b.Subtractive
c.Organic
d.Assemblages
Principles of Design:
Define these terms only. You do not need to find an example of each. I just want you to understand their meaning.
- Balance
- Pattern
- Movement/Rhythm
- Contrast/Variety
- Unity/Harmony
- Emphasis/Focal Point
- Proportion/Scale
Types of Art:
Find examples and define the term. Identify the artist/timeframe of each work
1.Nonobjective work
2.Abstract work
3.Realistic/representational work
4.Trompe l’oeil
Project 5: Snapshots and Khan
I want you to becomefamiliar with Khan Academy. I want you to go to this site and do the following assignments. Place them in your notebook under the Introduction tab.
Go ahead and work through the Introduction section of the site. You will use your book and this site for all your Snapshot information along with the museum where the work is located to gather data.
Next click on the 250 works that you will need for the AP test.
These are the works that you will be tested on for the AP Test. Notice the links. However, I want you to know more than just 250 works of art. These are just a very small percentage of the creative history that has occurred. These works are just samples of the periods we study. You will need to read the book to understand how these works came about and why they represent a particular period of time. Therefore, you will have tests on the book information and the Snapshots for your grade.
Make sure you mark this page to use for reference in the future.
- Watch this video.
Type up a summary of what was presented. How do we look at art? What are the methods that are used to look at a work of art? We will talk about this in class.
These will be things we will be dealing with in this class. This is a good introduction to how we will be discussing works of art. Place this summary in the Introduction section of your Notebook. Label your response: How to analyze art
- Watch and read the other articles in the Introduction section. Make sure you understand the difference between BCE and CE.
- After you watch this Ted Talk and Craft vs Art. Label your response What is art?
Now write a brief reflection of these two videos. What are some of the definitions of art? What is the difference between craft and art? Are there any differences? How did they compare to your definition of art in the first assignment? Place this in your notebook.
and
- Watch this video. Write a response to this video. Label it:The Study of Art.
How can the study of art help you as an individual? Is it useful to study art?
Write your response and place in your notebook.
- Using the glossary and other selections in the Introduction section, define the following terms in your own words.
Place these definitions in your notebook for grading.
Label the document:Vocabulary.
Context, Content, Form and Function (CCFF)
Audience, Medium, Style and Techniques
BCE, CE
What century are the following? (Copy and paste this and then write the century next to it)
125 BCE
49 CE
101 BCE
2010 BCE
550 CE
2007 CE
1976 BCE
We will be using these words throughout our discussions and snapshots.
Grading: You will turn in your Notebook on Friday of the first week of school. All you have to do is complete the work in a neat, well written and organized way to get your grade.
Your Museum project will be your first grade.
Your Notebook and its contents will be your second grade.
Produce thoughtful, well written responses. Complete the requirements. Organize as requested and you will get an A.