Art History & Criticism
Description
In this course students will understand the political, cultural, and religious changes throughout history that are depicted within art. This course is an opportunity for students to reflect on how art was and is used as a vehicle to communicate, depict political and religious propaganda, and serve as evidence of cultural shifts and changes. Students will be challenged to contemplate the connection between art and context through reflective writing assessments and Discussion-Based Assessments. Students will build upon knowledge throughout the course and understand how art reflects and communicated cultural change and evolution. Students will develop critical skills of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation in this course by analyzing historical documents, working in a thematic context, developing proficiency in note-taking, free-response writing, and solving problems. Students will demonstrate their skills through participation in extended collaborative projects. Art History & Criticism 1 Honors is an honors-only course. All assessments in this course are honors level and students will earn honors credit only.
Major Topics and Concepts
Semester I:
Gallery 1
01.00: Gallery Checklist
01.01: Introduction of Art History and Criticism
01.02: Prehistoric Art
01.03: Neolithic Architect and Art
01.04: Ancient Near Eastern Art
01.05: Egyptian Art
01.06: Aegean Art and the Art of the Cyclades
Gallery 2
02:00: Gallery Checklist
02.01: Ancient Greek Art
02.02: Greek Archaic Period
02.03: Greek Classical Period
02.04: Greek Hellenistic Period
02.05: Etruscan Art
02.06: Roman Art
02.07: Short Reflective Writing and Discussion-Based Assessment
Gallery 3
03.00: Gallery Checklist
03.01: Early Christian Art
03.02: Byzantine Art
03.03: Islamic Art
03.04: Art of the Middle Ages
03.05: Carolingian and Ottoman Art
Gallery 4
04.00: Gallery Checklist
04.01: Romanesque Architecture
04.02: The Gothic Period
04.03: Gothic Art Outside of France
04.04: Fourteenth-Century Italian Art
04.05: Fourteenth-Century Florence and Siena
04.06: Fifteenth-Century Art
04.07: Short Reflective Writing and Discussion-Based Assessment
04.08: Segment One Exam
Semester II
Gallery 5
05.00: Gallery Checklist
05.01: Early Renaissance Art
05.02: Early Renaissance Architecture
05.03: High Renaissance
05.04: Sixteenth-Century Venetian Art
05.05: Mannerism
05.06: Northern Renaissance
Gallery 6
06.00: Gallery Checklist
06.01: Italian and Spanish Baroque
06.02: Flemish, Dutch, French Baroque
06.03: Architecture and English Baroque
06.04: Rococo
06.05: Age of the Enlightenment
06.06: Neoclassicism
06.07: Romanticism
06.08: Short Reflective Writing and Discussion-Based Assessment
Gallery 7
07.00: Gallery Checklist
07.01: Realism
07.02: Impressionism
07.03: Post-Impressionism
07.04: Japanese Art
07.05: Fauvism and Proto-Cubism
07.06: African Art
07.07: The 'isms'
Gallery 8
08.00: Gallery Checklist
08.01: Surrealism, Suprematicism, De Stijl, and Bauhaus
08.02: Art Deco, Kinetic Art, Political Art, Regionalism
08.03: Art Brut, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and Conceptual
08.04: Pop Art, Superrealism, and Earthworks
08.05: Modernist Architecture
08.06: Neo-Expressionism, Feminism, Technology and Art
08.07: Short Reflective Writing and Discussion-Based Assessment
08.08: Segment Two Exam