FINAL, Art101, Fall 2014 Name:
Due: December 10, 11:55 pm
VERY IMPORTANT!!!! Instructions:
For each question, make a short outline for each question to help organize your essays, with:
A main statement or Thesis making clear what you are going to write about.
A body with examples of artworks to back up your statement. YOU MUST USE EXAMPLES!!!! To receive credit.
Example of outline:
I. Ancestor worship can be seen the artworks of both the Maya nobility and the Roman patrician class. This is demonstrated in the __(specific artwork)_ and _(specific artwork)_.
A. Discussion of what ancestor worship is.
1. Background info and description of Mayan artwork
B. Roman patrician definition and description
2. description of Roman artwork
II. Conclusion
Save this test as a Microsoft 97-2003 Word .doc or .rtf file, go to the Blackboard site, click “Email” from the Course Menu, and attach it to an email with your last name and FINAL in the subject line. Make sure to put your name inside the document as well. PLEASE READ OVER THE QUESTIONS AS YOU WRITE YOUR ESSAYS. Make sure you are on topic.
1. Consider the art of Pagan, or pre-Christian peoples of northern Europe.
What kind of subject matter/design elements appears in the Scythian, Celtic and Hiberno-Saxon artifacts?
Why do you think the bulk of their artwork was small items?
Use 2 examples.
2. Discuss the subject matter in early Christian art (i.e. the Good Shepherd), and compare it to the Last Judgement theme from the Romanesque period.
Why were these particular themes used?
What would the motives behind such imagery be?
What kind of message do you think the church was sending to its followers?
Use 2 examples.
3. Choose one:
A. Describe the system of supports, from the ground up, in a Gothic cathedral that enable light to penetrate the building.
Use 1 example.
B. Examine a Medieval/Gothic painting.
Compare this to a painting by Giotto, and discuss how Giotto changes painting conventions (i.e. with landscape, figures, scale, expressions, etc…)
2 examples total
4. Describe some symbolic iconography and architectural elements inspired by nature in ancient East Indian cultures.
Use 2 examples.
5. Discuss ancestor worship in the art of the Maya and the Romans.
Use 2 examples.
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