Specific Topics You Should Review
1) Art Basics - (Art Basics, your lecture notes)
Functions of art - ceremony, power, social cohesiveness, spirituality, memory, ideas
Formal Elements - medium & materials, principles of composition, style, content
2) Early and Pre-Historic art | Antiquity - (Art a world history: pg.10-67, lecture notes, online)
Early Civilization - Willendorf, Austria (Venus of Willendorf), Mesopotamia (Assyrian Lamassu),
Persia (Persepolis), Egypt (Pyramids, figuration), Greece (Parthenon), Rome (Pantheon)
3) European Renaissance - (Art a world history: pgs. 116-207, lecture notes)
Renaissance Humanism - culture shifts, rationalism, major artworks & architecture, new media, style movements, various artist roles
4) Non-Western art - (lecture notes, online)
Islam (the Royal Mosque of Isfahan), Australia (Aboriginal art “Grub Dreaming”),
Hopi (Kachina dolls), Hindu and Buddhist (Mandalas), Japan (Okiyo-e)
5) Modern and Post Modern art - (Art a world history: pgs. 412-501, lecture notes, online)
Modernism | avant-garde - formalism, abstraction, dada, surrealism, mix-media
Art After 1945 | new genres - multi-media, performance art, earth art, feminist art
6) Structuralist and Post-Structuralist Semiotics - (lecture notes, readings, online)
Language and Art: Saussure’s linguistics, Formalism, Semiotics, Cultural Marxism, Contextual Methodologies, Feminism, Post-Modernism
Review the following movements and styles
15th to 17th c.
Humanism
Age of Reason
Naturalism
19th & early 20th c.
Realism
Formalism
Modernism
mid to late 20th c.
Neo-Dada
Minimalism
Conceptualism
Artists to Review
Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Brunelleschi, George Grosz, Kathe Kollwitz,
Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Walter de Maria, Janine Antoni,
Christo & Jeanne-Claude, James Turrell, Anish Kapoor, Marcel Duchamp,
Marina Abromovic, Chris Burden, Guerrilla Girls.
