Art Show 2016-Ap European History

ART SHOW 2016-AP EUROPEAN HISTORY

Day Two - Answer at least nine (9) of these questions. You MUST include G, J, K, L, and M in your selection of nine. (you pick four)

A.  Middle Ages Art vs. Renaissance Art – list as many differences as you can. Hint: we discussed them at the beginning of the year and reviews.

B.  What Middle Ages Art technique is demonstrated in picture #2?

C.  What other Brueghel paintings did we look at in class? Where is Pieter Brueghel from and how do you know that?

D.  In the work, Children’s Games, what is Brueghel saying about mankind? #8

E.  Which Renaissance characteristic is used in these three pictures and throughout Renaissance Art? (#5 specifically)

F.  Which shape does Da Vinci use in The Last Supper? #6

G.  Looking at the paintings in the two categories, what’s the difference between Impressionism and Post-Impressionism?

H.  At the table, look at the Van Gogh paintings. Also, compare the two self portraits, Van Gogh and Manet.

I.  In painting #25, can you identify the guitar and the candlestick? What are the characteristics of Cubism? Google three (3) other works of Cubism and list here.

J.  Compare Raphael’s School of Athens and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon for artistic style.

K.  In (#27) Picasso’s Guernica, identify the meaning of these symbols:

a.  Woman with lamp

b.  Bull

c.  Dying horse

d.  Figure in far right-hand side

e.  What other famous sculpture did Picasso model his woman with child on her lap as seen in the far left-hand side of the painting.

f.  Other symbols:

L.  What political, economic, and social generalities can you make about all of the artwork in this room? (at least three)

M. In Renior’s Bal du Moulin de la Galette (#18) painted in 1876, what does it say about the people of that time? Relate it to what is going on in Europe according to your knowledge from class.

ART SHOW 2016-AP EUROPEAN HISTORY

Day Three:

1.  L1, L2, and attempt L3 on this surrealist painting by Dali -

2.  Check your answers to Guernica’s symbolism with the Wikipedia page. Compare the symbolism.

a.  Woman with lamp

b.  Bull

c.  Dying horse

d.  Figure in far right-hand side

e.  What other famous picture did Picasso model his woman with child on her lap as seen in the far left-hand side of the painting.

3.  Existentialism-read the key ideas of Existentialism in the Age of Anxiety handout pg. 192. Explain, with specifics, the statue Striding Man by Alberto Giacometti represents Existentialism?

4.  Rembrandt’s Night Watch

a.  What is the name of the Renaissance lighting and shading technique that is used.

b.  What is the content of this painting?

c.  How does the content give you a hint to WHERE the painter is from?

d.  Google other works by Rembrandt, then write down common similarities you see.