“All art should inspire and evoke emotion. Art should be something you can actually feel.”
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Art history is designed to be a college level survey course approved by College Board. Students will learn from a College Board set list of 250 artworks chronologically, beginning with Paleolithic painting/sculpture and ending with Post-Modernist contemporary artists (a number of artworks will be added throughout the year in addition to the set list). The course will spend the most time on Renaissance art to the 21st century. We will explore ancient through the Medieval ages, and global arts including Africa, the ancient North and South Americas, Asia, Near East, Oceania, and Islamic traditions. Throughout the year the students will be guided by Essential Questions put forth by College Board; What is art and how is it made? Why and how does art change? How do we describe our thinking about art?
*See College Board's description for AP Art History
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Students will:
1. Contextualize and analyze European and global artworks using form, function content, and context
2. Gain a deep understanding of the meaning of artworks
3. Apply complex terminology to artworks, styles and movements
4. Learn to communicate at a post-secondary level
5. Experience some art creating throughout the year
6. Analyze traditions and change through global connections
7. Interpret works of art by analyzing contextual variable
8. Develop skills in visual, contextual, and comparative analysis
9. Recognize and identify title, artist, date, and materials of works of art and architecture
1. Contextualize and analyze European and global artworks using form, function content, and context
2. Gain a deep understanding of the meaning of artworks
3. Apply complex terminology to artworks, styles and movements
4. Learn to communicate at a post-secondary level
5. Experience some art creating throughout the year
6. Analyze traditions and change through global connections
7. Interpret works of art by analyzing contextual variable
8. Develop skills in visual, contextual, and comparative analysis
9. Recognize and identify title, artist, date, and materials of works of art and architecture
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The iconic image of a girl reaching out for a red, heart-shaped balloon, sold for $1.4 million. Moments later, a shredder hidden inside the "artist's frame" started its work and the art "self-destructed," according to a news release from Sotheby's.
Banksy summed up the stunt with this quote on his Instagram account -- "Going, going, gone ..." along with a picture of stunned onlookers as the shredded art emerges from the bottom of the frame. "It appears we just got Banksy-ed," Alex Branczik, Sotheby's senior director of contemporary art, said in the news release. On Saturday, a video posted on Banksy's Instagram account showed the secret shredder being built into the frame "a few years ago ... in case it was ever put up for auction." The artist also posted the Picasso quote - "The urge to destroy is also a creative urge." There's no word on how the shredder started operating at the key moment after the auction, though it could have been activated by a remote mechanism. The auction price of $1.4 million for the spray paint and acrylic on canvas Girl with Balloon tied the artist's previous record set in 2008. |
