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APAH SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS
The following assignments are to be completed this summer and brought to the first day of class. - APAH ARTICLES Read and respond to two articles. Information & instructions listed below - APAH 250 APAH requires you to know 250 works of art by May. We will be studying these throughout the year. Respond to the 10 images listed on page 3 using the instructions. - APAH FILM FESTIVAL Watch and respond to two lms. Information & instructions listed. - APAH SUMMER QUESTION Watch the Ted videos listed on page 6 and prepare a one to three sentence statement responding to these questions: Why do we make art? What role does art play in our lives? RECOMMENDED SUPPLIES FOR FIRST DAY OF CLASS: ● Sketchbook: 9x12” spiral bound 100 page (Canson) http://www.dickblick.com/items/10322-1003/ ● 5x7 Flashcards: white or color index cards http://www.staples.com/5x7+note+cards/directory_5x7+note+cards ● Colored pencils: basic colors http://www.dickblick.com/items/22063-0129/ ● Colored ink pens: basic colors http://www.dickblick.com/items/22167-1009/ ● #2 pencils & writing pens for note taking and observations We will be keeping a Sketchbook/Investigation Journal for this class. Above are the recommended supplies. We will be gluing things and writing and testing out methods, materials and artist practices and ideas in the sketchbook. You will be keeping color coded ashcards on the APAH 250 throughout the year. The pens and pencils are for you to color code and experiment with art projects along the way. 
APAH SUMMER QUESTION
Watch the Ted videos listed below and prepare a one to three sentence statement responding to these questions: Why do we make art? What role does art play in our lives?
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APAH SUMMER INTRO
Art History is a class that seeks to understand different cultures and human experience through the study and analysis of art & architecture. We exist in a world that is filled with the stories & artifacts of human history, architecture, painting, photographs and sculpture. Art History offers the tools to recognize and to understand these forms. Art History provides knowledge and understanding of the past, & through it, of the present. APAH encourages humanity, compassion, understanding, sympathy and respect by teaching about other individuals, locations and societies through their visual expression. Art History provides intellectual con dence gained through learning how to recognize, order, value and interpret facts. In so doing, it encourages us to think, create & write clearly as well as to read & observe carefully. The course will prepare you for the exam in May and the summer work is a preparation and glimpse into what that exam may hold as well as laying the groundwork for an open mind and understanding of the amazing and inspiring history of art we will discover together next year! Your Summer Assignment is a vital step to your overall success for next year. It is required prep for this Advanced Placement course of study. Please bring your completed work to the first day of class in the fall. 
APAH ARTICLES
Read these two articles and write one paragraph that responds to the Free Response Question (FRQ). Responses must be typed. ● Read this BBC article and watch video: “Would You Exercise in a Museum” BBC Culture, http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170320-now-you-can-exercise-in-a-museum Free Response Question (FRQ) : What are di erent ways in which we interact with art? How should art be viewed and/or experienced? Is there a wrong way to experience art? ● Read this Artsy Net article: “A Brief History from Michelangelo to Knoelder & Company”—By Leila Amineddoleh, 30th January 2016 https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-the-8-most-proli c-forgers-in-art-history-that-we -know-of Free Response Question (FRQ) : What does forgery re ect about the way we value art? What is the relationship between art and originality? Commodity? 
APAH FILM FESTIVAL
Watch these two lms and write one paragraph in response to the Free Response Question (FRQ). Responses must be typed. HERB & DOROTHY “The extraordinary story of a postal clerk and a librarian who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means. In the early 1960’s when very little attention was paid to Minimalist and Conceptual Art, the Vogels quietly began purchasing the works of unknown artists. Devoting all of Herb’s salary to purchase art they liked, they collected guided by two rules: the piece had to be a ordable, and it had to be small enough to t in their one-bedroom Manhattan apartment. Within these limitations, they proved themselves curatorial visionaries; most of the those they supported and befriended went on to become world-renowned artists, including Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel, Sol LeWitt, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Richard Tuttle, Chuck Close, Robert Mangold, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Lynda Benglis, Pat Steir, Robert Barry, Lucio Pozzi and Lawrence Weiner. HERB & DOROTHY provides a unique chronicle of the world of contemporary art from two unlikely collectors, whose shared passion and discipline de es stereotypes and redefines what it means to be a patron of the arts.” FRQ: What does this lm show us about why people collect art? Does it matter who the collector is? Please refer to an example from the film. WOMAN IN GOLD “Sixty years after eeing Vienna, Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren), an elderly Jewish woman, attempts to reclaim family possessions that were seized by the Nazis. Among them is a famous portrait of Maria's beloved Aunt Adele: Gustave Klimt's "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I." With the help of young lawyer Randy Schoeberg (Ryan Reynolds), Maria embarks upon a lengthy legal battle to recover this painting and several others, but it will not be easy, for Austria considers them national treasures.” FRQ: What does this lm show about how we determine who a work of art belongs to? How can history complicate this? |
APAH 250 from 10 CONTENT AREAS
We have chosen 10 images that we want you to be familiar with before the start of the school year, one from each APAH content area. (A complete list of the APAH 250 slides for the year can be found here: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/introduction-ap-arthistory/a/required-works- of-art-for-ap-art-history) Look up each of the following 10 works online and find out some basic information about them: Who made them? When? How & why? Then write one paragraph about each that considers the following:
CONTENT - FORM - CONTEXT - FUNCTION- STYLE - MEANING -
-What can you see? What is the subject matter? Finer details. The Elements of Art and Principles of Design
-Why? What was happening during this time that caused this piece to be created? (Think: Political, Economic, Religious, Social, Intellectual, Art)
-What is its purpose?What was it made to be used for, or do?
-How are you able to tell the artwork can be classified by a particular artist, culture, period, art movement, etc...?
-Why or how is this work important to the time and culture? What makes this t into history?
-What led up to the creation of this piece? How did this work re ect the ideas during this time in history, and allow it to be a product of its time?
-What is the meaning of the artwork?
We have chosen 10 images that we want you to be familiar with before the start of the school year, one from each APAH content area. (A complete list of the APAH 250 slides for the year can be found here: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/introduction-ap-arthistory/a/required-works- of-art-for-ap-art-history) Look up each of the following 10 works online and find out some basic information about them: Who made them? When? How & why? Then write one paragraph about each that considers the following:
CONTENT - FORM - CONTEXT - FUNCTION- STYLE - MEANING -
-What can you see? What is the subject matter? Finer details. The Elements of Art and Principles of Design
-Why? What was happening during this time that caused this piece to be created? (Think: Political, Economic, Religious, Social, Intellectual, Art)
-What is its purpose?What was it made to be used for, or do?
-How are you able to tell the artwork can be classified by a particular artist, culture, period, art movement, etc...?
-Why or how is this work important to the time and culture? What makes this t into history?
-What led up to the creation of this piece? How did this work re ect the ideas during this time in history, and allow it to be a product of its time?
-What is the meaning of the artwork?
