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Exam III Study Guide for Arts 1105: Understanding Visual Culture, Spring 2010 - Prof. Elis, Study notes of Art

A study guide for exam iii of the arts 1105: understanding visual culture course, held in spring 2010. It includes exam policies, tips for preparation, and a format outline. The exam covers image identifications, objective questions, and student presentations.

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ARTS 1105: Understanding Visual Culture
Exam III Study Guide, Spring 2010
Elissa Auerbach
Exam date and time: May 4, 8:00-10:45 am
Required at the exam: A pen or pencil and yourself
Material covered in the exam: All assigned readings, lectures and class discussion covered
since the last exam.
If you miss the exam: Please review the policies regarding excused absences from
the exam in the syllabus and discuss your absence with me
immediately.
First, a few tips:
1. If you have missed any class sessions, I encourage you to borrow high-quality notes from
several students in your class. The majority of the exam questions will be based on
information covered in class lectures and discussions, so it is essential that you have very
good notes from which to study in order to pass the exam.
2. Use the message board to obtain notes from your classmates, arrange study groups, or
study with one another in the board itself.
3. Use flash cards to prepare for your exam. Use the model flashcard in Ning entitled
“Sample Flashcard for Exams.” To prepare your cards, follow these directions exactly as
follows:
Make individual flash cards for every artistic/historical period, major event, artist, artistic
style, term, art object, etc., for which you are responsible.
When making cards for the art objects, quickly sketch the image of the work on one side
of the card. Sketching helps the brain mentally record the image better than it can a
photocopied image, for example. The sketch should not be elaborate -- just a stick figure
or enough so that you know what the object is and an unusual detail you see in the object
to help you differentiate it from others. The simpler, the better. Do not put any other
information on the side of the card with your sketch. Use the model entitled “Sample
Flashcard” that is posted in “Files” in Ning.
On the other side of the card, write down all pertinent information to that image (i.e.,
artist, title, artistic period, medium, major formal characteristics, important cultural
references, explanation of the subject matter, etc.).
Use only key words for this information and try to arrange the words in bullet points so
you can quickly glance at the image and then flip your card over to read the points you
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ARTS 1105: Understanding Visual Culture

Exam III Study Guide, Spring 2010

Elissa Auerbach

Exam date and time: May 4, 8:00-10:45 am Required at the exam: A pen or pencil and yourself Material covered in the exam: All assigned readings, lectures and class discussion covered since the last exam. If you miss the exam: Please review the policies regarding excused absences from the exam in the syllabus and discuss your absence with me immediately. First, a few tips:

  1. If you have missed any class sessions, I encourage you to borrow high-quality notes from several students in your class. The majority of the exam questions will be based on information covered in class lectures and discussions, so it is essential that you have very good notes from which to study in order to pass the exam.
  2. Use the message board to obtain notes from your classmates, arrange study groups, or study with one another in the board itself.
  3. Use flash cards to prepare for your exam. Use the model flashcard in Ning entitled “Sample Flashcard for Exams.” To prepare your cards, follow these directions exactly as follows:
  • Make individual flash cards for every artistic/historical period, major event, artist, artistic style, term, art object, etc., for which you are responsible.
  • When making cards for the art objects, quickly sketch the image of the work on one side of the card. Sketching helps the brain mentally record the image better than it can a photocopied image, for example. The sketch should not be elaborate -- just a stick figure or enough so that you know what the object is and an unusual detail you see in the object to help you differentiate it from others. The simpler, the better. Do not put any other information on the side of the card with your sketch. Use the model entitled “Sample Flashcard” that is posted in “Files” in Ning.
  • On the other side of the card, write down all pertinent information to that image (i.e., artist, title, artistic period, medium, major formal characteristics, important cultural references, explanation of the subject matter, etc.).
  • Use only key words for this information and try to arrange the words in bullet points so you can quickly glance at the image and then flip your card over to read the points you

listed on the back side without being burdened with full sentences and wordy explanations.

  • If you are adventurous enough to try this technique, you should have a thick stack of cards by the time you are done (and then some!). If you have utilized high-quality notes and your readings to properly prepare the cards and you’ve memorized all of the information you’ve written on your cards before the exam, you will quite likely do VERY well on your exam.
  1. Lastly, contact me via email (elissa.auerbach@gcsu.edu) if you have any questions or concerns. The earlier you contact me, the better I can help you. EXAM STUDY GUIDE EXAM POLICIES Write your answers clearly and legibly on the exam sheet. The exam will begin promptly at the start of class. Since all of the exam images will be projected on a screen and can not be printed on paper, you must be present during the entirety of the exam to respond to all of the exam questions. Cheating will result in a failing grade, at least. You will have the entire class session to complete your exam. Remember, you will be graded on the quality and content of your work in this course as well as your overall improvement. What you do NOT need to know:
  • Dates (of art objects, events, artistic cultures/periods, etc.)
  • Present-day location of art objects except for architecture and monumental sculpture.
  • Works of art and architecture that are not included in the image list provided below. Write your answers clearly and legibly on the exam sheet. The exam will begin promptly at the start of class. Since all of the exam images will be projected on a screen and cannot be printed on paper, you must be present during the entirety of the exam to respond to all of the exam questions. Cheating will result in a failing grade, at least. You will have the entire class session to complete your exam. Remember, you will be graded on the quality and content of your work in this course as well as your overall improvement. EXAM FORMAT The examination will be comprised of questions related to the required readings, lecture material and class discussions covered up to the day of the exam. If any information included in the guide below has not been covered by the date of the exam, it not appear on the exam.

You will be asked objective questions about the artists covered during the student presentations in this section of the exam. These questions may relate to the main work of art selected by the presenter to represent an artist’s style, medium, or major themes. These questions may also relate to the artistic influences of the artist, her or his historical context, and the ways in which scholars have interpreted the artist’s work. All of the questions in this section of the exam will be based entirely on the content of the student presentations. These objective questions may be in the form of short-answer questions, fill-in-the-blanks, true/false, multiple choice, etc. TERMS LIST, TO GET YOU STARTED This list will not appear on your exam, and this is a list that is not necessarily comprehensive. You are responsible for any terms discussed in lecture, discussion, and the readings. Medici Humanism Disguised Symbolism Surface Realism Erwin Panofsky Chiaroscuro Memento Mori Arm Akimbo Burin Venus Pudica Pose Protestant Reformation Martin Luther Iconoclasm 95 Theses Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, France Salon (i.e., Royal Academy exhibitions) Workers’ Uprising of 1848, Paris Communist Manifesto Women’s Rights Convention, 1848, New York Paris Universal Exposition, 1889 Pavilion of Realism Avant-garde Salon des Refusés Société Anonyme des Artistes En plein air Readymade Cabaret Voltaire Karawane Collage Photomontage Society of Independent Artists

REQUIRED IMAGES TO KNOW FOR EXAM I

You are responsible for the images in posted in Ning in “Exam Preparation,” and the following images reproduced in your textbook according to their figure numbers: A. 1.10, 5.5, 5.28, 5.51, 9.13, 14.40, 18.8, 18.9, 18.2 7 , 18.35, 24.21, 25.2, 25.