SUMMER Assigments

SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS 2024-2025:
PART 1:

A. Watch BBC's "A History of Art in Three Colours Episode 1: Gold"  (link below)
B. Watch BBC's "A History of Art n Three Colours, Episode 2: Blue" (link below)
C. Watch BBC's "A History of Art in Three Colours, Episode 3: White" (link below)

Answer the following questions:

a. Which color of these three you think is the most important and why? (short answer)
b. If there was a fourth episode, which color should be highlighted and why? (short answer)
c. What is your favorite art piece (include image) and why? (long answer/essay)

Please answer on a word document (only – no links, no share docs, no PDFS).

a. Your name should be at the top of the document at the right-hand side follow by your ID number.
b. Date your document.
c. Title your answers and document: AP Art History Summer Assignment 24/25 - A History of Art in Colour. 
d. Instructions for submission will be given at the beginning of the school year.

Good luck!


BBC A History of Colour: Gold BBC A History of Colour: Blue BBC A History of Colour: White
 

PART 2:

Key Terms -The vocabulary used in art history is specific and extensive. The following are the basic/key 55 terms that you must be familiar with to be able to properly think, talk, write, and discuss about art history:
Instructions:
A.- Define all key terms
B.- Pick 10 key terms and draw them out
C.- Pick 5 key terms and find an example in art

Please answer on a word document (only – no links, no share docs, no PDFS).

a. You name should be at the top of the document at the right-hand side follow by your ID number.
b. Date your document.
c. Title your answer and document: AP Art History Summer Assignment 24/25
d. Instructions for submission will be given at the beginning of the school year.

 VOCABULARY:

1. Ambulatory    
2. Anthropomorphic
3. Apse
4. Architrave
5. Assemblage
6. Avant-Garde
7. Biomorphic
8. Buttress
a. Flying Buttress
9. Cantilever
10. Caryatid
11. Chiaroscuro
12. Choir
13. Clerestory
14. Contrapposto
15. Corbeled Vault
16. Cornice
17. Crypt
18. Diptych
19. Encaustic
20. Entablature
21. Fresco
22. Frieze
23. Hierarchical Scale
24. Hypostyle
25. Iconoclasm
26. Impasto
27. Intaglio
28. Japonisme
29. Kore
30. Kouros
31. Mihrab
32. Mudra
33. Mosaic
34. Narthex
35. Pagoda
36. Pediment
37. Pendentive
38. Photomontage
39. Post and lintel
40. Predella
41. Pylon
42. Qibla Wall
43. Readymade
44. Register
45. Repoussé
46. Syncretism 
47. Stele
48. Stupa
49. Triptych
50. Tympanum
51. Ukiyo-e
52. Vault
a. Barrel Vault
b. Groin Vault
53. Vellum
54. Veristic
55. Zoomorphic





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