Ap art - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

AP Art History 250 Required Images questions and answers latest top score. Apollo 11 Stones Nambia. c. B.C.E. Charcoal on stone The earliest history of rock painting and engraving arts in Africa. The oldest known of any kind from the African continent. - correct answers. Great Hall of Bulls Lascaux, France. Paleolithic Europe. B.C.E. Rock Painting represents the earliest surviving examples of the artistic expression of early people. Shows a twisted perspective. - co...

AP Art History: Artworks 12-25 12. White Temple and its ziggurat c. BCE, mud brick, Uruk, Iraq 13. Palette of King Narmer BCE, slate, Egyptian Museum, Cairo 14. Statues of votive figures, from the Square Temple at Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar, Iraq), c. 2700 BCE, gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone, Iraq Museum, Baghdad and the University of Chicago, Chicago

223. Presentation of Fijian mats and tapa cloths to Queen Elizabeth II (Fiji, Polynesia, 1953 C.E) CORRECT ANSWER - Multimedia performance (costume; cosmetics, including scent, chant movements, and pandanus fiber/hibiscus mats Function: Where important people meet to drink tea out of the same container, starting with most important person to the least important person Content: Mat People in costumes Designs Barkcloth with geometric patterned details Context: After three days on the i...

AP Art History - BaroqueIl Gesù - correct answer N: Il Gesù (aka Chiesa del Santissimo Nome di Gesù all'Argentina) D: CE A: Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola & Giacomo della Porta P/S: mannerist and baroque facade Pa: Cardinal Alessandro Farnese L: Rome, Italy M/T: brick, marble, & stucco F: mother church of Jesuits, a Catholic religious order C: Said to have "first truly baroque facade"- divided into two sections; lower is divided by six pairs(12 total) of pilasters with Corinthian capi...

Abstract Expressionism CORRECT ANSWER First major American avant-garde movement; emerged 1940s in NYC; artists focused on automatism and revealing their subconscious through automatism artmaking; broad gestural strokes on huge canvases Amarna Style CORRECT ANSWER Based on newly introduced monotheism, this style rejected traditional artistic conventions; utilized elongated forms, androgynous bodies and scenes of daily life Ancient Egypt CORRECT ANSWER Aimed to evoke timelessness and traditi...

AP Art History - BaroqueIl Gesù - correct answer N: Il Gesù (aka Chiesa del Santissimo Nome di Gesù all'Argentina) D: CE A: Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola & Giacomo della Porta P/S: mannerist and baroque facade Pa: Cardinal Alessandro Farnese L: Rome, Italy M/T: brick, marble, & stucco F: mother church of Jesuits, a Catholic religious order C: Said to have "first truly baroque facade"- divided into two sections; lower is divided by six pairs(12 total) of pilasters with Corinthian capi...

AP Art History Unit 2 Mesopotamia and Egypt Exam with Questions and Answers White Temple and Ziggurat ANSWER -It is a temple atop a mud-brick platform. -The artistic process was making the 40 ft ziggurat with broad and sloping sides, and having recessed bands from the top to bottom. The top of it was covered with bitumen, and then overlaid with brick. The temple was then whitewashed inside and out. -The imagery was simply a stunningly bright ziggurat and temple. -It was made by the Sumer...

AP Art History 15- Postmodernism performance art - correct answer an American avant-garde art trend of the 1960's that made time an integral element of art happenings - correct answer a term coined by American artist Allan Kaprow in the 1960's to describe loosely structured performances, whose creators were truing to suggest the aesthetic and dynamic qualities of everyday life; as actions, rather than objects Earthwork/Site Specific/environmental art - correct answer transforming some s...

AP Art History Mesopotamia Exam with Questions and Answers Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia ANSWER "land between the rivers" sumerian ANSWER one of the first inhabitants of Mesopotamia akkadian ANSWER Semitic people living north of the Sumerians city states ANSWER a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. deity ANSWER a god; a divine being Epic of Gilgamesh ANSWER An epic poem from Mesopotamia, and among the earliest known works of literary writin...

AP ART HISTORY EXAM 2 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS