AP Art History Optional Summer Assignment Hauck 2013 This will be a wonderful course and we will explore some incredible are. The Annotated Mona Lisa is just a fun little intro into the amazing world that your Gardner’s text will help you explore next year. Enjoy  The following extra credit assignments use the book The Annotated Mona Lisa (the pages refer to the old version – white cover, 1992 version – you can probably adapt them to use with the version). Some also require the internet. You may do any or all of these to build up extra credit points to start the year. 1. Read the introduction: How to look at a painting. a. Print a color version of Gercault’s The Raft of the Medusa. b. Label with title, artist, medium and date (of the painting) c. Use highlighters to show the two overlapping triangles and name the triangles (see composition and then unity and balance for info). d. Draw arrows over everything that contributes to the sense of movement that culminates in the man waving the shirt (everything that draws our eye towards him). e. Point out three examples of Gericault using color and or light to tell the story or set the mood. 2. Read pages 6 and 7 and then find and print three works of art (at least one should be a bas relief) from three different ancient near eastern (Mesopotamian) civilizations (Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, etc) made to glorify a leader. Beside each write the title, civilization, medium and date and how the work is meant to glorify the leader. (Think what the leader wanted his people to think about when they saw the work). 3. Read pages 8 and 9 then find a picture of a tomb painting form the tomb of Ti ( I have been there – it was so cool, I will tell you about it next year) and find an example of ka statue (other than the ones shown on page 9). Print the pictures and include title, time period (old kingdom, new kingdom, etc), medium and date for each. Use the pictures to illustrate the main points of the reading (example, the human form in wall painting, the material, few breakable parts, purpose, etc for the ka statue). 4. Read pages 14 and 15 then find or take your own picture of a building in Georgia that incorporates parts of a Greek temple (such as a pediment, Doric columns, etc). Label at least seven parts from the Greek primer on page 15. 5. Read pages 22 and 23 then print pictures of an African tribal mask and then a cubist work. Point out similarities between the two. Then print two pictures of the Dogon couple (p23) one that shows the front and one that shows the back. Label with title, culture, date and medium. Write a few lines about how the statue shows traditional roles of men and women in the Dogon culture (you don’t have to look this up – just look at the sculpture). 6. Read pages 24 and 25 and then print a picture of “Justinian and Attendants”. Label with title, building, era, medium and date. Then do the following a. Circle Justinian and point out how his importance is demonstrated. b. Point out how the figures look unrealistic (less than human). c. Explain why Byzantine were not interested in depicting things realistically (p.24). 7. Read pages 26 through 28 then print a plan of St. Sernin in Tolouse France. Do the following with the plan. a. label with title, era, location and date. b. color the transept red c. color the ambulatory (outer arcade for pilgrims to walk in without disturbing mass) yellow d. color the nave blue e. color the apse green f. make a key Print and label (title, date, location, etc) two pictures of other Gothic cathedrals. 8. Can do any or all parts of 8: Part A: Read pages 46 through 48 then print out Caravaggio’s The Conversion of St. Paul. Label with title, style, medium, and date and then point out three characteristics of Baroque art that are evident. Part B Take your own photograph of a staged scene in the Baroque style and point out three ways in which it is characteristic of the Baroque. Part C: Create a chart of Baroque artists mentioned in pages 46 through 60. Label the chart Baroque Artists and list their names, field (painter, architect, etc) and nationalities. 9. List 10 “isms” from the chapter about the 19th century. For each print a small picture to illustrate that “ism”. Identify by title, artist, ism and date. Then, next to the image, list three words that are strongly associated with that ism. 10. Look through the Twentieth century art chapter. Pick your ten favorite works. Print a picture of each. Label with title, style (school or ism), artist, date and tell why (one or two lines) each deserves a place in “art history”. TURN ANY OR ALL OF THIS IN ON THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS NEXT YEAR! I CAN’T WAIT FOR US TO START!