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AP Art History is an introductory college-level art history course. Students cultivate their understanding of art history through analyzing works of art and placing them in historical context as they explore concepts like culture and cultural interactions, theories and interpretations of art, the impact of materials, processes, and techniques on art and art making, and understanding purpose and audience in art historical analysis.
Students will research, discuss, read, and write about art, artists, art making, and responses to and interpretations of art. By investigating specific course content of 250 works of art characterized by diverse artistic traditions from prehistory to the present, the students develop in-depth, holistic understanding of the history of art from a global perspective. Students learn and apply skills of visual, contextual, and comparative analysis to engage with a variety of art forms, developing understanding of individual works and interconnections across history.
Course Essential Questions
Course Essential Questions
What is art and how is it made?
Why and how does art change?
How do we describe our thinking about art?
Course Learning Objectives
Course Learning Objectives
Differentiate form, function, content and/or the context of a work of art.
Explain how artistic decisions about art making impact art.
Identify a work of art with key identifiers, including artist or culture, date, and material.
Describe how artistic and historical context influences artistic decisions involved in creating a work of art.
Analyze the form, function, content and/or context to explain or determine the artist’s intentions during the creation of the work.
Describe features of an artistic tradition and/or change in a single work of art or a group of related works.
Explain how and why specific traditions and/or changes are demonstrated in one or more works of art.
Analyze the influence of a single work of art or group of related works on works of art produced around the same time or later.
Analyze how formal qualities of the work and/or content of a work of art brings about a response from the viewer.
Consider how contextual factors lead to different interpretations of art.
Justify attribution of an unknown work of art, using formal qualities and comparisons to other works.
Analyze relationships between different works of art based on their similarities and differences.
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