Research

Estimated Total: 1 hour 45 min

Directions: Just like for Steps 1-5, how you decide to present your information or take notes is your choice! Some people use a google doc, slideshow, notebook, or poster. I truly want you to own how you present your information, but you MUST have every component! There are 5 Steps below.

Your work must be NEAT and COMPLETE!

Estimated: 5 min

Step 6: Find one work of art from African or Pacific culture section on smarthistory.org that resonates with you. Scroll down to those specific units: (Content Area 6 Africa 1100-1980 C.E.) and (Content Area 9 Pacific 700-1980 C.E.)

List what you like most about the work of art.
Take notes about what you "see".
Based on only what you "see," please write a short description of what you "think" the work is about.

Note: Pacific = Oceanic

Step 7: Read Art Through the Ages (1926) Ch. 22 (pages 411-420) “African and Oceania Art” using the link: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.279628/page/n417/mode/1up

Upon your first read, point out parts of the text that you believe are problematic or possibly inaccurate.

Use the Critical Reading Handout to help guide you. (You do not need to answer all of the questions, but you need to learn how to critically read a text. Therefore, review: Analysis, Interpretation, and Evaluation)

Estimated: 20 min

Critical Reading Handout.pdf

Reading Critically and Carefully will be the backbone of our studying habits.

Step 8: Watch or read one of the options below.

Watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mX8ehMsYL8

Read

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/beginners-guide-20th-c-art/xdc974a79:key -concepts/a/primitivism-and-modern-art

Estimated: 20 min

Step 9: Answer the questions below.

What is Primitive?
What is Primitivism?
What is Primitive Art?
How has the definition of Primitivism changed over time? How are we encouraged to look at works of art in the 21st century?

Then Read about your work of art from Step 6 (use smarthistory.org) and write down what you've learned about the work of art next to your initial description.

What did you learn from this exercise?

Estimated: 20 min

Note from Mrs. Stewart:

What art historians do is investigate a work of art with principles and good questions. But even good questions can be slighted by bad perspectives or ignorance. Currently, the art world is slowly moving away from misleading, "surface-level" language and theories that center eurocentricity and patriarchy as the supreme measure of fine art and high standards in art.

We must decolonize our minds and decolonize our language. This happens simultaneously. It requires doing quality research not simple, surface-level findings.

We will start the year by asking:

What are the dangers of making surface-level conclusions about a work of art?

Who gets to define which art is good art or bad art?

Is there misleading or “surface-level” language that we use today to describe things? Think and start to list some examples and discuss the issues with using this language.

Step 10: Next to your definitions, you may now google/define each other words below. I want to see evidence that you did the exercise and this one separately. Some people split the paper in half. On the left side, they write "their" definition and on the right side, they write "the credible" definition. Some people write using two different colors right next to each other. However you decide to show your knowledge, be sure to have Step 5 and Step 10 evident in your summer work submission.

Estimated: 25 min

AP Art History

Introduction: The Lingo

Medium

Iconography

Attribution

Patron

Composition

Foreground

Middle-ground

Background

ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES

Line

Color

Color Scheme

Complimentary Colors

Monochromatic

Value

Texture

Space

Positive Space

Negative Space

Shape

Form

Balance

Radial

Symmetrical

Asymmetrical

Proportion

Harmony/Unity

Rhythm

Pattern/Repetition

Emphasis

Variety

Movement

ART TERMS TO USE WHEN DESCRIBING

Illusionistic space

Depth

Perspective

Foreshortening

Painterly brushstrokes

Expressive

Naturalized

Stylized

Contrast

Vibrant

Dramatic lighting

Stage like setting

Medium

Carving

Additive sculpture

Hierarchy of Scale

Decorative

Craftsmanship

Aesthetics

Contour

Highlight

Shade

Intensity

Motif

Warm

Colors

Cool

Colors

Figural

Abstract

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