Introduction & Art History Primer Study Worksheet **Please note: This is document is intended to help guide your studies. It is not a comprehensive list of test material** Primer ● Define H

Introduction & Art History Primer

 Study Worksheet

**Please note: This is document is intended to help guide your studies. It is not a comprehensive list of test material**

Primer

●       Define Historiography

●       Pick an object from your immediate surroundings that has an image on it

○       Take a picture of it (include this picture with your worksheet)

○       Describe the formal aspects of this object:

○       Describe the content of this object/image 

○       Describe the context of this object/image:

●       Pick an image from the Introduction of the textbook

○       Title & Artist: 

○       Describe the composition of the image 

●       Define Conventions: 

●       Pick your favorite genre of movie. What 3 films would be in the canon for the genre you picked? (Note that the Introduction of the text includes a different usage of the word ‘canon’)

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●       Pick an image from the Introduction of your text.

○       Describe the primary focal point of the image 

●       Describe what the Picture Plane is 

Introduction

Your text defines four kinds of evidence to look for when determining the age of an artifact.

●       List and describe them

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●       List and describe the three kinds of style that your text defines

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●       Define Patron 

○       Why is knowing who the patron is important to understanding a work of art? 

●       Define Illusionistic 

●       Define Perspective 

●       Define Medium 

●       Define Foreshortening 

●       Define Hierarchy of Scale

• Give an example of

○       An additive method of sculpting

○       A subtractive method of sculpting

●       Define Relief Sculpture & Sculpture in the Round

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●       In architectural drawing, what is the difference between a plan, a section, and an elevation?