Art History AB

COURSE SYLLABUS

ART HISTORY A/B

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Art History A/B is a full year art history course designed to help students develop critical thinking skills while developing an understanding and knowledge of diverse historical and cultural contexts of architecture, sculpture, painting and other art media. Students will analyze major forms of artistic expression from the past through present and from various cultures. While visual analysis is a fundamental tool of the art historian, art history emphasizes an understanding of how and why works of art function in historical context, taking into account patronage, gender, culture, religion, events, politics and more. A meaningful way to experience works of art is learning to frame an understanding that relates how and why works of art communicate visual meaning. In this course, students will pay particular attention to five areas for class discussion: subject matter, function, artistic decision making, contextual analysis, and cultural impact. Contemplating these five factors will help students to see art as a meaningful part of their lives.

We will cover the following eras/cultures:

Art History A

Prehistoric

Near Eastern

Ancient Egyptian

Ancient Aegean

Ancient Greece

Etruscan and Roman

Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine

Islamic

South and Southeast Asian

Chinese and Korean

Japanese

American

African

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

Art History B

Medieval

Romanesque

Gothic

14 th

Century

15 th

Century

Italian Renaissance

16 th

Century

Northern European

17 th

Century

18 th

Century

19 th

Century

Modern European and American

1.

apply fundamental art and art historical terminology.

2.

appreciate the process of making and displaying art.

3.

understand the purpose and function of art.

4.

analyze works of art in context of historical evidence and interpretation, examining such issues as politics, religion, patronage, gender, and ethnicity.

5.

understand the cross-cultural and global nature of art.

6.

perform higher order thinking skills and articulate visual and art historical concepts in verbal and written forms.

PREREQUISITES / CO-REQUISITES

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English / Language Arts

•

World History

•

Geography

Primary Text:

Author: Marilyn Stokstad and Michael W. Cothren

Title: Art History(Combined Volume)

Edition: 4 th

Edition

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Year: 2011

ISBN-10: 0205744222

ISBN-13: 978-0205744220

Supplementary Materials:

Notebook / Sketchbook

Supplies for course project (will vary)

COURSE METHODOLOGY

This is an inquiry-based course where you will discover and utilize knowledge of art history via the textbook, videos, and other readings, and class discussions discussions with other students and the instructor.

Acting as a facilitator, your instructor will guide you through the process; however, as the learner, you are responsible for actively acquiring and constructing knowledge by completing all assigned readings and activities.

Both formal and informal assessment will be used in evaluating your performance throughout the course. Informal assessment will include an evaluation of the quality and timeliness of your participation in class activities. Formal assessment will involve multiple-choice quizzes, written essays, major writing assignments, a midterm, a final exam and a course project.

COURSE PARTICIPATION OBJECTIVES

This course for which you are registered is a college preparatory, academically rigorous course that covers an entire year’s worth of material (both Art History A and B). As such, it is important that you adhere to the following guidelines as you manage your time and commit to successfully completing all required coursework:

1.

The requirements for this course are equivalent to completion of minimum of 90+ hours of class instruction at a traditional on-site high school.

2.

Assignments must be submitted for each unit as they are completed so that the teacher may review and assess your performance. Do not hold your work, you must submit each unit’s homework as it is completed, demonstrating weekly assignment completions.

3.

You participate regularly in your course to demonstrate not only continued participation, but also completion of all course requirements, including assignments, assessments and class discussion forums.

4.

You must complete your individual work and any incident of suspected cheating, plagiarism or collaboration on assignments violates the academic integrity expectations outlined at the time of your enrollment and can result in failure of the course or further action as deemed appropriate.

COURSE OUTLINE

Art History A

Unit

Pre-work

Objectives:

Students will...

Activities

Warm-up: Art Fraud Detective

Reading Assignment: Starter Kit and Introduction

Lecture: Introduction to Art History

• learn the language of art

• will have an understanding of form, content, style, medium and technique

•

• will be able to define what art is will be able to define what art history is

• and its significance will understand visual elements of pictorial expression: line, light, form and color

• learn the significance of iconography

• learn about art restoration in reference to

Rogier Van Der Weyden’s Philadelphia

Crucifixion

Film Short: Iconography

Film Short: Visual Elements

Vocabulary Flashcards

Assignment 1: Think About It questions

Questions to Ponder and Discuss: Class Discussion

Unit Review Interactivity

Quiz

Prehistoric Art

Objectives:

Students will...

Prehistoric Art Timeline

Reading Assignment : Chapter 1 (p 1-25)

Lecture: The Birth of Art

The Near East

Objectives:

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Examine the origins of art in the prehistoric era

•

Discover the location and motifs of

Paleolithic cave art and assess the range of scholarly interpretations for them

•

Investigate the early use of architecture in domestic and

• sacred contexts, including megalithic monuments such as

Stonehenge

Explore the use and meaning of human figurines in Paleolithic and

Neolithic periods

•

Trace the emergence of pottery making and metalworking and examine the earliest works made of fired clay and hammered gold.

Presentation: Prehistoric Art

Film Short: Megaliths

Film Short: Post and Lintel

Film Short: Corbel Construction

Film Short: Prehistoric Art



Journal Assignment: Review and Critique works of art


Unit Review

Practice Quiz

Quiz

Reading Assignment: Chapter 2 (p. 27 – 47)

Presentation: Near Eastern Art

Students will... Film Short: Cuneiform

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Explore the development of visual narrative conventions to tell stories of gods, heroes, and rulers in the sculpted reliefs of the ancient near east.

Discover how artists of the ancient near east used colorful and precious materials to create dazzling effects in art and architecture.

Survey the various ways rulers in the ancient near east expressed their power in

Film Short: Assyrian Archers

Film Short: Ishtar Gate

Film Short: Ziggurat of Ur

Film Short: Stele of Naram-Sin


• portraits, historical narrative and great palace complexes.

Appreciate the distinctive form of architecture that evolved for worship.

Ancient Egypt

Objectives

Students will...


Journal Assignment: Review and Critique of works of art


Unit Review

Practice Quiz

Quiz

Reading Assignment: Chapter 3 (p.49-79)

Presentation: Ancient Egypt

Film Short: Mastaba to Pyramid

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Explore the pictorial conventions for representing the human figure in ancient

Egyptian art, established early on and maintained for millennia.

•

Trace the evolution of royal portrait styles from the Old Kingdom through the New

Kingdom and assess the differences

•

• between depictions of royalty and ordinary people.

Analyze how religious beliefs were reflected in the funerary art and architecture of ancient Egypt.

Appreciate the complexity of construction and decoration brought to New Kingdom temple architecture rooted in the same post-an-lintel architecture tradition that had been used since that Old Kingdom.

Film Short: Akhenaten and His Family

Film Short: Queen Hatshepsut

Film Short: Palatte of Namer



Journal Assignment: Review and Critique Works of

Art


Unit Review

Practice Quiz

Ancient Aegean

Quiz

Challenge Question

Objectives:

Students will...

•

Compare and contrast the art and architecture developed by three Aegean

Bronze Age cultures.


Presentation: Ancient Aegean Art

Film Short: Flotilla Fresco

•

Evaluate how archaeology has recovered, reconstructed, and interpreted ancient

•

Aegean material culture despite the lack of written documents.

Assess differences in the designs and use of the large architectural complexes created by the Minoans and the

Mycenaean’s.

•

Investigate the relationship between art and social rituals or communal practices in

• the ancient Aegean cultures.

Discover the technical sophistication of

Bronze Age artists working in metal, stone and ceramics.




Art


Unit Review

Practice Quiz

Quiz

Ancient Greece Challenge Question

Objectives: Reading Assignment: Chapter 5 (p. 101-157)

Students will... Presentation: Ancient Greek Art

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Trace the emergence of a distinctive style and approach to art and architecture during the early centuries of Greek civilization.

•

Compare and contrast the black figure and red figure techniques of ceramic painting.

•

Assess the differences between the three order systems used in temple architecture.

•

Explore the nature and meaning of the

High Classical style in ancient Greek art.

•

Discover the ways Hellenistic sculptors departed from the norms of High

Classicism.

Film Short: Funerary Vase

Film Short: Euphronios Krater




Art


Unit Review

Practice Quiz

Etruscan and Roman Art

Quiz


Objectives:

Students will...

•

Examine the ways that Etruscan funerary

Presentation: Etruscan Art

Presentation: Ancient Roman Art

art celebrates the vitality of human existence.

•

Trace the development of portraiture as a major form of artistic expression for the

•

Romans.

Investigate the various ways Romans embellished the walls of their houses with illusionistic painting.

•

Explore the structural advances made the

Romans in the construction of large civic

• architecture.

Assess the ways Roman emperors used art and architecture as an arm of imperial propaganda.

Film Short: Dish from Mildenhall

Film Short: Sarcophagus with the Indian Triumph of Dionysus

Film Short: Column of Trajan

Film Short: Forum Romanum




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Midterm

Unit Review

Practice Quiz

Quiz

Review Activity: Curator of Ancient Art

Jewish, Early Christian and Byzantine Art

Objectives:

Lecture: How to Write a Comparative Essay

Midterm Part 1: Comparative Essay

Midterm Part 2: Exam

Challenge Question

Reading Assignment: Chapter 7 (p. 217-259)

Students will... Presentation Early Christian Art

•

Investigate how aspects of Jewish and

Early Christian art developed from the

• artistic traditions of the Roman world.

Interpret how Early Christian and

Byzantine artists used narrative and iconic imagery to convey the foundations of the

•

•

Christian faith for those already initiated into the life of the Church.

Analyze the connection between form and function in buildings created for worship

Assess the central role of images in the

Presentation: Byzantine Art

Film Short: Baptism of Christ and Procession of

Apostles

Film Short: Sant Apollinaire Nuovo

Film Short: Mosaic Floor of Beth Alpha

Film Short: Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus

• devotional practices of the Byzantine world and explore the reasons for and impact of the brief interlude of iconoclasm.

Trace the growing Byzantine interest in conveying human emotions and representing human situations when visualizing sacred stories.


Assignment 8: Think About it questions


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Unit Review

Practice Quiz

Islamic Art

Quiz

Documentary: Paradise Found: Islamic Art and

Architecture

Objectives:


Students will...

Presentation: Islamic Art

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•

Discover Islamic art's eclecticism and embrace of other cultures.

Compare and contrast the variety of art and architecture in the disparate areas of the Islamic world.

•

Interpret art as a reflection of both religion and secular society.

•

Explore the use of ornament and inscription in Islamic art.

•

Recognize the role of trade routes and political ties in the creation of Islamic artistic unity.

Film Short: Mamluck Oil Lamp




Art


Unit Review

Practice Quiz

South and Southeast Asian Art

Quiz


Objectives:

Students will...

•

Recognize the characteristic differences between a Hindu temple and a Buddhist stupa.

•

Appreciate the diffusion of religion in

Presentation: South and Southeast Asian Art

Film Short: Descent of the Ganges

Films Short: Great Stupa at Sanchi


Southeast Asia.

•

Understand the correlation between religious worldviews and architectural

•

• form.

Assess the variety of ways in which storytelling can be accomplished in pictorial art.

Identify the distinguishing features of a

Buddha image.

Chinese and Korean Art

Objectives:



Art


Unit Review

Practice Quiz

Quiz

Challenge Question

Reading Assignment: Chapter 10 (p. 325- 353)

Students will...

Presentation: Chinese and Korean Art

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•

Examine the interaction of art and ritual in early periods of Chinese and Korean history.

Discuss the development of Confucian philosophy and its impact on the pictorial art of China.

•

Analyze the Daoist elements in early landscape motifs of China.

•

Assess the introduction and spread of

Buddhism, and its adherents as patrons

(including the court) in both China and

Korea.

•

Discuss the development of naturalistic depiction and the achievement of verisimilitude in both landscapes and figures in the painting and sculpture of

China before 1279.

Film Short: Large Seated Buddha

Film Short: Stone Relief




Art


Unit Review

Practice Quiz

Quiz

Japanese Art Reading Assignment: Chapter 11 (p. 355-375)

Objectives:

Students will...

Presentation: Japanese Art

Film Short: Tale of Genji


•

Recognize the native elements in early

Japanese art.

•

Understand Japan's cultural relationship

with China and Korea.

•

Summarize the transformation of Japanese

Buddhist sculpture.

•

•

Discuss the ways Shinto influences

Japanese aesthetic perceptions.

Distinguish different uses of Buddhist paintings in connection with the different sects of Buddhism for which they were made .



Art


Unit Review

Practice Quiz

Art of the Americas

Objectives:

Students will...

Quiz


Presentation: Art of the Americas

Film Short: Lintel 24

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Recognize how differences in environmental conditions affected the artistic output of Mesoamerica, South

America, and North America.

•

Explore how the role or function of an object is critical to understanding its meaning in ancient American visual arts.

•

Compare and contrast the use of urban planning in ancient American cultures.

•

Examine how Maya writing functions, and how it relates to Maya images.

Film Short: Maya Stela




Art


Unit Review

Practice Quiz

African Art

Objectives:

Quiz


Presentation: African Art

Film Short: Roped Pot on a Stand Students will...

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•

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Identify and summarize the key roles that the visual arts play in sub-Saharan Africa.

Explore how African arts mediate and support communication between the temporal and the supernatural worlds of various spirit forces.

Specify how African visual arts are only




Art

fully realized in their context of use.

•

Contrast the role of African arts related to leadership as compared to the role of leadership arts in Western cultural traditions.


Unit Review

Practice Quiz

Final Exam

Quiz

Course Review: Museum Director

Final Exam Part 1: Exam

Final Exam Part 2: Research and Presentation of

Cultural Art

Art History B

Unit

Pre-Work

Objectives

Students will…

Activities

Interactivity: They Said What?

Lecture: Introduction to Art History


Students will...

Assignment 1: Think About It Questions

•

• learn the language of art

• will have an understanding of form, content, style, medium and technique will be able to define what art is

• will be able to define what art history is and its significance

• will understand visual elements of pictorial expression: line, light, form and color

• learn the significance of iconography

• learn about art restoration in reference to Rogier Van Der

Weyden’s Philadelphia Crucifiction


Review

Medieval Art Reading Assignment p.423-451

Objectives Presentation: Medieval Art

Students will… Film Short: Psalm 23

•

Investigate how barbarian ornamental styles became the basis for illustrating Christian manuscripts in

Ireland and Northumbria, and learn how these manuscripts were made and used.

•

Assess the Carolingian revival of

Roman artistic traditions in relation to the political position of the rulers as emperors sanctioned by the pope.

•

Appreciate and understand the variety of styles used to illustrate

• early medieval sacred books.

Discover the distinctive style of manuscript painting developed by

Christian artists in Spain.

•

Analyze the planning and function of monasteries in the early Middle

Ages.

Film Short: Purse Cover




Art


Review

Practice Quiz

Quiz

Romanesque Art Reading Assignment: p. 453-489

Objectives

Students will…

Presentation: Romanesque Art

Film Short: Bayeux Tapestry

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•

Explore the emergence of Romanesque architecture--with its emphasis on the aesthetic qualities of a scupltural wall--out of early masonry construction.

Assess the impact of pilgrimage as a cultural phenomenon on the design and embellishment of church architecture.

•

Compare and contrast Romanesque architectural styles in different regions of

•

Europe.

Investigate the integration of painting and scuplture within the Romanesque building, and consider the implecations of placing art on the church exterior and what theological themes were emphasized.

•

 Explore the eleventh and twelfthe century interest in telling stories of human frailty and sanctity in scuplture, textiles, and manuscript painting--stories that were

Film Short: Last Judgement

Film Short: Medieval Castle




Art


Review

Practice Quiz

Quiz

meant to appeal to the feelings as well as to the minds of viewers.

Gothic Art

Objectives

Reading Assignment: p.491-527

Presentation: Gothic Art

Students will...

Film Short: Rose Window

•

•

Investigate the ideas, events, and technical innovations that led to the development of Gothic architecture.

•

Contrast English and German styles of Gothic with their French prototypes.

Trace the development of stained glass as the major medium of monumental Gothic painting.

•

Appreciate how artists were able to communicate complex theological ideas in stained glass, sculpture, and

• illustrated books.

Analyze the relationship between the

Franciscan ideals of empathy and the emotional appeals of sacred narrative painting and sculpture in Italy.

Film Short: Opening of Psalm One




Art

Questions to Ponder or Discuss

Review

Practice Quiz

Quiz

Fourteenth Century Art

Objectives

Reading Assignment : 529-559

Presentation: 14 th

Century Art

Students will: Presentation: Early Renaissance Art

•

Assess the close connections between works of art and their patrons in fourteenth century Europe.

•

Compare and contrast the Florentine and Sienese narrative painting traditions as exemplified by Giotto and

•

Duccio.

Discover the rich references to everyday life and human emotions that

• begin to permeate figural art in this period.

Explore the production of small-scale works, often made of precious

Film Short: The Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux

Film Short: Scrovegni Chapel




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• materials and highlighting extraordinary technical virtuosity, that continues from the earlier Gothic period.

Evaluate the regional manifestations of the fourteenth century Gothic architectural style.

Review

Practice Quiz

Quiz

Fifteenth Century Art Reading Assignment p. 561-591

Objectives Challenge Question

Presentation: 15 th

Century Art Students will:

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Analyze how Flemish painters gave scrupulous attention to describing the textures and luminosity of objects in the natural world and in domestic interiors.

•

Trace the development of an extraordinary interest in evoking human likeness in portraits, unlike

•

•

• anything seen since ancient Rome.

Explore how paintings in northern

Europe of the fifteenth century captured in concrete form visions of their meditating donors.

Uncover the complex symbolic meanings that saturated the settings of

Flemish paintings.

Investigate how prints developed into a major pictorial medium.

Film Short: Goldsmith and His Shop

Film Short: Ghent Altarpiece

Film Short: Arnolfini Wedding Portrait

Film Short: Life in the Country

Film Short: Deposition

Film Short: Merode Altarpiece




Art


Review

Italian Renaissance

Objectives

Practice Quiz

Quiz


Presentation: Renaissance Art in the 15 th

Century

Students will: Film Short: Brunellechi’s Dome

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Explore the development and use of linear perspective in fifteenth century

Florentine painting.

Examine how sculptors were instrumental in the early development of the Italian Renaissance by increasing the lifelike qualities of human figures and drawing inspiration from ancient

Roman sculpture.

•

Assess the role of wealthy merchants and condottieri in driving the development of Renaissance art and

•

• architecture.

Consider how the new focus on artistic competition and individual achievement created a climate for innovative and ambitous works.

Evaluate the importance of the

Classical past to the development of early Renaissance architecture.

Film Short: Massacio’s Tribute Money

Film Short: Primavera




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Review

Practice Quiz

Quiz

Midterm Museum Visit

Sixteenth Century Art

What Happened When?

Midterm


Objectives Film Short: Assumption of the Virgin

Students will: Film Short: The Tempest

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•

•

•

Trace the shift in the artistic center of

Italy from Florence to Rome, and recognize the efforts of Pope Julius II to create a new "golden age."

Understand the Vatican as a site for the creative energies of the most important artists of the Italian Renaissance.

Explore the intentional subversion of

Classical style and decorum in the work of Mannerist artists.

Compare and contrast the emphasis on drawing and clearly structured compositions in the work of Roman

Film Short: Michelangelo’s Pieta

Film Short: Bacchus and Ariadne

Film Short: Pastoral Concert

Film Short: Titian’s Pieta

Film Short: Feast at the House of Levi


• and Florentine painters with the expressive potential of color that characterizes the work of their Venetian counterparts.

Examine the architectural creativity lavished on the design of both grand churches and pleasurable retreats for the wealthy in sixteenth century Italy.



Art


Review

Practice Quiz

Northern European Art

Quiz

Reading Assignment: Chapter 21 p.676


Students will... Presentation: Northern Renaissance

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Investigate the broadening of regional interaction in the art of European courts as artists traveled across Europe to work for wealthy patrons and study with acclaimed masters.

Evaluate the impact of Italian ideas on the traditions of northern art and architecture, including the developing notion of artists as uniquely gifted individuals.

Analyze the developments that led to the creation of an art market in the

Netherlands.

Assess the relationship between the religious conflicts in northern Europe and the growing interest in new secular subjects in works of art.

Recognize the continuing interest among northern European artists and patrons in the virtuosity of works in media such as wood and gold.

Film Short: Durer’s Adam and Eve

Film Short: Burial of Count Orgaz

Film Short: The Ambassadors

Film Short: Return of the Hunters



Review

Practice Quiz

Quiz

Seventeenth Century Art

Objectives

Students will...

Reading Assignment: Chapter 22, p.710

Challenge Question

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•

Assess the impact of the Council of

Trent's guidelines for the Counter-

Reformation art of the Roman Catholic

Church.

Explore how the work of Bernini and

Caravaggio established a new dramatic intensity, technical virtuosity, and unvarnished naturalism that blossomed into the Baroque.

•

Trace the broad influence of

Caravaggio's style on art across Europe during the seventeenth century.

•

Assess the resurgence of Classicism, especially in the work of seventeenth century French artists and architects.

•

Analyze the way that seventeenthcentury artists created works that embodied the power and prestige of the monarchy.

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Examine the development of portraiture, still life, landscape, and grenre scenes as major subjects for painting, especially within the prosperous art market of the

Netherlands.

Presentation: Baroque: Italy and Spain

Presentation: Baroque: Northern Europe

Film Short: Allegory of Sight

Film Short: Louis XIV

Film Short: The Anatomy Lesson

Film Short: Las Meninas




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Review

Practice Quiz

Quiz

Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Art Reading Assignment: Chapter 29, p.902


Students will... Presentation: Rococo

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Discover how the ornate style of the

Rococo era was a reflection of salon life among the aristocracy in

• eighteenth-century France.

Investigate Neoclassicism as a reflection of Enlightenment values with roots in the study of Classical antiquity

• in Rome.

Explore the many subjects of

Romanticism, from the sublime in nature to the cruelty of the slave trade with a common interest in emotion and feeling.

Presentation: Art of the Enlightenment

Presentation: Romanticism

Film Short: Europe’s Chinoiserie Craze

Film Short: The Sleep of Reason Produces

Monsters

Film Short: Georgian Silver

Film Short: The Family of Charles IV

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Examine the Grand Manner in history painting and portraiture and the role of art academies.

Trace the complex political climate of the times through the work of Francisco

Goya.

Film Short: The Lictors Returning to Brutus the

Bodies of His Sons

Film Short: William Blake

Film Short: The Rainbow




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Mid to Late Nineteenth Century Art

Objectives

Review

Practice Quiz

Quiz

Reading Assignment: Chapter 30, p.960

Presentation: Post Impressionism

Students will... Film Short: Luncheon on the Grass

•

Evaluate the role played by academic art and architecture in the art world of the late nineteenth century.

•

Examine the early experiments that led to the emergence of photography as a

• new art form.

Analyze the ways in which the moment toward realism in art reflected the social and political concerns of the nineteenth century.

•

Investigate the origins of

Impressionism and describe its form and content.

•

Compare and contrast the several manifestations of Post-Impressionism.

Film Short: Bar Folies Bergere

Film Short: Water Lilies

Film Short: Saddled

Film Short: Rehearsal of the Ballet

Film Short: Sunday on La Grande Jatte

Film Short: In the Loge

Film Short: Still Life with Plaster Cast

Film Short: Starry Night




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Review

Practice Quiz

Quiz

Reading Assignment: Chapter 31, p.1016 Modern European and American Art


Presentation: Early 20 th

Century Art Students will...

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Assess the impact of Cubism on abstract art in the early 20th century.

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Examine the different ways that artists in the Modern period responded directly or

• indirectly to the violence of war.

Investigate how Dada and Surrealism changed the form, content, and concept of art.

•

Analyze the relationship between function, form, and technology in early 20th century

• architecture.

Determine the political and economic impact of the Great Depression on interwar European and American art.

•

Assess how and why Abstract

Expressionism transformed painting after

1940.

Presentation: Cubist Legacies

Presentation: Dadaism and Photography

Presentation: Surrealism

Presentation: Post-War Europe

Presentation: Before and After the Armory Show

Presentation: Abstract Expressionism

Presentation: 20 th

Century Architecture

Film Short: Portrait of a German Officer

Film Short: Street, Berlin

Film Short: Cut with the Kitchen Knife

Film Short: Autumn Rhythm

Film Short: Nude Descending a Staircase

Film Short: Luncheon in Fur

Film Short: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

Film Short: Picasso’s Collages

Course Project

Final Exam

Film Short: Guernica

Film Short: Persistence of Memory

Film Short: The Battleship Potemkin




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Questions to Ponder and Discuss

Review

Practice Quiz

Quiz

Students will choose one option:

Option 1: Webquest

Option 2: Research Paper

Option: Presentation

Interactivity: What Happened When?

Review: Art Curator

Final Exam

ACADEMIC HONESTY

The following are forms of academic dishonesty. These practices will not be tolerated.

Plagiarism: Plagiarism consists of using another author's words without proper identification and documentation of that author. Plagiarism takes the form of direct quotation without the use of quotation marks and/or documentation, or paraphrasing without proper identification and documentation. The fabrication of sources, or the act, deliberately or unconsciously, of passing another author's work off as your own are also considered to be plagiarism.

Falsification: Falsification consists of deliberately changing results, statistics, or any other kind of factual information to make it suit your needs. It also consists of deliberately changing a source’s intent by misquoting or taking out of context.

Multiple submission: If you wish to turn in the same work or use the same research, in whole or in part, for more than one course, you must obtain permission to do so from all instructors involved. Failure to obtain this permission constitutes academic dishonesty. This course is a chance for you to explore your own creativity.

GRADING POLICY

Final Grades for this class will be based on your performance, participation in all class activities, group discussions, unit assignments, course projects, a midterm and a final exam. Weightings will be applied as follows:

Group Discussions/Class Participation

Homework Assignments

Individual Project

10%

20%

20%

Midterm Exam

Final Exam

Journals

Total

15%

20%

15%

100%

HOW YOU WILL BE GRADED :

Grade Skills

A

B

C

Demonstrates excellence in grasping key concepts; critiques the work of others; provides ample evidence of support for opinions; readily offers new interpretations of discussion material.

Shows evidence of understanding most of the major concepts; is able to agree or disagree when prompted; is skilled in basic level of support for opinions; offers an occasional divergent viewpoint.

Has mostly shallow grasp of the material; rarely takes a stand on issues; offers inadequate levels of support.

D or F Shows no significant understanding of material.

CLASS DISCUSSION RUBRIC

Initial posts….

Score

Initial Response

3

Response completely addresses the prompt with a well--- developed paragraph of at least five to seven sentences.

Responses to classmates…

Score

Follow-up posts

2

Responses are

Thoughtful and create discussion.

And:

One response given to two classmates.

2

Response adequately addresses the prompt with a paragraph of five to seven sentences.

1

Response somewhat addresses the prompt with a paragraph less than five to seven sentences.

1

Responses only agree

Or disagree with no

Thoughtful discussion.

And/or:

Only one response to

One classmate.

0

Response

Does not

Address the prompt.

Or

No response.

0

No response given

*If there is more than one prompt, students must reply to all prompts. All prompts are worth a total of 5 points. Scoring is detailed above.

WRITING STANDARDS

"A" Range: standards.

Outstanding achievement, significantly exceeds

"B" Range: Commendable achievement, exceeds standards for the course.

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Unique topic or unique treatment of topic, takes risks with comment; fresh approach

•

Sophisticated/exceptional use of examples

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Original and "fluid" organization; all sentences and paragraphs contribute; sophisticated transitions between paragraphs

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Integration of quotations and citations is sophisticated and highlights the author's argument

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Confidence in use of Standard English, language reflects a practiced and/or refined understanding of syntax and usage

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Sentences vary in structure, very few if any technical errors (no serious mechanical errors)

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Specific, original focus, content well handled

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Significance of content is clearly conveyed; good use of examples; sufficient support exists in all key areas

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Has effective shape (organization), effective pacing between sentences or paragraphs

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Quotations and citations are integrated into argument to enhance the flow of ideas

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Has competent transitions between all sentences and paragraphs

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Conveys a strong understanding of Standard

English; the writer is clear in his/her attempt to articulate main points, but may demonstrate moments of "flat" or undefined language

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May have a few minor mechanical errors

(misplaced commas, pronoun disagreement, etc.). but no serious mechanical errors

(fragments, run-ons, comma-splices, etc.)

"C" Range: Acceptable, solid achievement, meets standards for the course.

"D" Range: standards.

Marginal achievement; only meets minimum

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Retains overall focus, generally solid command of subject matter

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Subject matter well-explored but may show signs of under-development

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Significance is understood, competent use of examples

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Structure is solid, but an occasional sentence or paragraph may lack focus

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Quotations and citations are integrated into argument

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Transitions between paragraphs occur but may lack originality

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Competent use of language; sentences are solid but may lack development, refinement, style

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Occasional minor mechanical errors may occur, but do not impede clear understanding of material

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No serious mechanical errors (fragments, runons, comma-splices, etc.)

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Significance of content is unclear

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Lacks sufficient examples or relevance of examples may be unclear

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Support material may not be clearly incorporated into argument

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Expression is occasionally awkward

(problematic sentence structure)

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Mechanical errors may at times impede clear understanding of material

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May have a few serious mechanical errors, but no recurring serious mechanical errors

(fragments, run-ons, comma-splices, etc.)

"F" Range: Failure to meet minimum standards.

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Ignores assignment

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Lacks significance

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Lacks coherence

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Includes plagiarized material (intentional or unintentional)

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Lacks focus

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Difficult to follow due to awkward sentence or paragraph development

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Mechanical errors impede understanding

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Problems with writing at the high school level

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