Art, Literature, Music on the AP Exam • Well known pieces • Well known artists • Notable eras, movements • Need to recognize names of artists and the movements with which they are associated • Need to be able to place works of art in proper historical and/or artistic context • Need to understand the progressive nature and related aspects of major movements
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Art, Literature, Music on the AP Exam
• Well known pieces• Well known artists• Notable eras, movements• Need to recognize names of artists and the
movements with which they are associated• Need to be able to place works of art in proper
historical and/or artistic context• Need to understand the progressive nature and
related aspects of major movements
MC Q’s: Art, Music, Literature
• Will NOT ask you to simply identify• Will ask you to identify and place in context• Will ask you to identify by period or movement• Will ask you to relate to event, trend, era• Will ask you to analyze content and apply across
and/or through time• May also be cartoons, photographs, illustrations
The painting below, the “Gare Saint-Lazare” (1877) by Claude Monet is an example of which of the
following schools of painting?
• A. Abstract• B. Surrealism• C. Cubist• D. Impressionist• E. Baroque
The sculpture by Bernini shown below celebrates…
• A. a new interest in secular themes
• B. Lutheran veneration of saints
• C. the Calvinist cult of beauty• D. the reconciliation of the
papacy after The Council of Trent
• E. Catholic Reformation mysticism
ESSAYS: Art, Music, Literature
• For DBQ: A series of paintings, illustrations, excerpts that you will have to analyze the subject, content, context and apply to larger question in history.
• Ex: Test 1 AP Review guide• For Free Response Essay, more than likely a
comparative analysis question
The two pictures below suggest technological and urban transformations characteristic of modern Europe. Using the pictures as a starting point, discuss the extent the changes and their effects on working middle class Europeans in
the second half of the 19th century.
Compare and contrast the ways in which the two works of art express the artistic styles and political issues of their times
Compare the ways in which the two works of art below express the artistic, philosophical, and cultural values of their
time.
MAN POINTING, GIACOMETTI 1947David, Michelangelo, 1504
• Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1510)• Pieter Bruegel (1525-1569)• Albrecht Durer (1471-1528)• Hans Holbein (1497-1543)• Jan van Eyck (1400?- 1441) • El Greco (Spanish) (1541-1614)
HieronymusBosch
The Temptation
of St. Anthony
1506-1507
Bruegel’s, Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind, 1568
Albrecht Dürer • The greatest of German artists.
• A scholar as well as an artist.• His patron was the Emperor
Maximilian I.• Also a scientist– Wrote books on
geometry, fortifications, and human proportions.
• Self-conscious individualism of the Renaissance is seen in his portraits.
• Self-Portrait at 26, 1498.
Hans Holbein, the Younger
• One of the great German artists who did most of his work in England.
• While in Basel, he befriended Erasmus.– Erasmus Writing, 1523
• Henry VIII was his patron from 1536.
• Great portraitist noted for:– Objectivity & detachment.– Doesn’t conceal the
weaknesses of his subjects.
Artist to the Tudors
Henry VIII (left), 1540 Henry VIII (left), 1540 and the future Edward and the future Edward VI (above), 1543.VI (above), 1543.
Jan van Eyck
• The Virgin and Chancellor Rolin, 1435.
• More courtly and aristocratic work.– Court painter to the
Duke of Burgundy, Philip the Good.
Giovanni Arnolfini Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wifeand His Wife
El Greco• The most important Spanish artist of this period was
Greek.• 1541 – 1614.• He deliberately distorts & elongates his figures, and
seats them in a lurid, unearthly atmosphere.• He uses an agitated, flickering light.• He ignores the rules of perspective, and heightens the
effect by areas of brilliant color.• His works were a fitting expression of the Spanish
Counter-Reformation.
El Greco’s, The Burial of Count Orgaz, 1586
El Greco
The View of Toledo
1597-1599
Art of the Baroque
• 17th and 18th century• Supersedes Mannerism of the Renaissance • Origins in Catholic Rome• Religious themes still dominate• Largely rejected in protestant areas of Europe• Strongly advocated pictorial clarity
Baroque
► 1600 – 1750.
►From a Portuguese word “barocca”, meaning “a pearl of irregular shape.”
►Implies strangeness, irregularity, and extravagance.
►The more dramatic, the better!
Baroque Style of Art & Architecture► Dramatic, emotional.
► Colors were brighter than bright; darks were darker than dark.
► Counter-Reformation art.
► Paintings & sculptures in church contexts should speak to the illiterate rather than to the well-informed.
► Ecclesiastical art --> appeal to emotions.
► Holland --> Real people portrayed as the primary subjects.
Major figures of the Baroque
• Caravaggio – Italian 1572-1610, painter • Gianlorenzo Bernini – Italian 1598-1680,
painter, sculptor, architect, extremely pious, papal knight at age 23 serves church and popes for rest of life
• Rembrandt van Rijn – Dutch, 1606-1669 painter (The Dutch School)
“The Flagellation of
Christ”
Caravaggio
Baldachin over the High Altar of St. Peter's,
1624-33Bronze and gold
(95 feet high)Vatican, Rome
Gianlorenzo Gianlorenzo BerniniBernini
Tomb of Alexander VII
1672-78
Gianlorenzo Gianlorenzo BerniniBernini
Doctor Nicolaes Tulp's Demonstration of the Anatomy of the Arm, Rembrandt, 1632