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Image Challenge: up to 6 points extra credit in Tests & Quizzes category

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Previous Challenges:
What theme would you choose?
Both works are discussed in your book, but you may also want to check out related material on the internet.

2 points: Fully identify both works.
2 points: Choose a theme that these works both connect to and explain why you chose it.
2 points: Create a compare and contrast list for these works based on the elements and principles of art.

E-mail me your answers.

Theme Time Essay: 6 points in Projects category

Each week I will add one or more new options for you to choose from for this required weekly essay assignment.
  • Select one of the following themes to write an essay comparing and contrasting the listed images for that theme.
  • Remember to fully identify each work, and to discuss subject, style and significance within the context of the theme.
  • Use specific examples, facts, and details to support your answer.
  • E-mail me your answers.
The links included here are simply to get you started...refer to your book as well as other reliable sources.
  1. Seascapes/Power of Nature: Turner's Slave Ship with Katsushika Hokusai's The Great Wave at Kanagawa . Both of these works are also discussed in your book.


  2. Social Commentary: Turner's Slave Ship with Ye Yushan's Rent Collection Courtyard (Link to full image of this installation) . Both of these works are discussed in your book.


  3. Mother and Child: Mary Cassatt's The Child's Bath with Kitagawa Utamaro’s Midnight: The Hours of the Rat; Mother and Sleepy Child. The Cassatt work is discussed in your book. Althought the Utamaro work is not in your book, this type of work is discussed in chapter 27.


  4. Human Body in Art: Shiva Nataraja with Donatello's David.Both of these works are discussed in your book, although the Shiva Nataraja is a different version of the same imagery.


  5. Narrative in Art: Olowe of Ise's Palace door (click on the second link on the left and then select "more>>>" below the palace door information) with Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise.The Ghiberti image is discussed in your book, but the Olowe of Ise piece is not.


  message for 5/7/08:
Read Chapters 33-34 - rise of modernism through late 20th century


New Study Guides and Due dates:

Complete by 5/12/08: Chapter 34 Study Guide
Chapter 33 Study Guide
Chapter 29 Study Guide
REVIEW MATERIALS: 19th century Art Movements
REVIEW MATERIALS: Pre-WW2 Art Movements
REVIEW MATERIALS: Post-WW2 Art Movements
REVIEW MATERIALS: Modern Art Movements
Complete at your own pace: Review for AP Exam Study Guide
Complete at your own pace: Chapter 28 Study Guide 1: Rococo through English Neoclassical
Complete at your own pace: Chapter 28 Study Guide 2: American Neoclassical through End of Chapter
Complete at your own pace: Chapter 28 Key Ideas, Vocabulary, and Artworks

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Upcomming AP Exam: 9am study group with breakfast in L312 on exam day

Interactive Site for Architecture. You can view 360o pans of various great cathedrals of Europe and other great works of architecture from various time periods...very cool!
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