This art history introduction will cover various topics including visual art forms, history, geography, archaeology, cultural identities, religion, philosophy, and social issues. Specific works that will be discussed include paintings, sculptures, and architectural examples from different time periods and places. Key concepts to be examined are the formal elements of art, techniques like perspective and shading, properties of color, and stylistic terminology.

1. ART HISTORY INTRODUCTION
Over the year we will study:
Visual Art; pictures, sculpture, and architecture
History
Geography
Archaeology
Cultural Identities
Religion
Philosophy
Social Issues

2. -describe the benefits of studying the history of art
-discuss the artistic impulse
-understand the different ways are is valued
-explain the comparison of artists with gods
-compare the use of space in two- and three-dimensional objects
-distinguish between art history and archaeology
-describe the methodologies of art and cite examples of each
-understanding the dating systems AD and BC

3. Vincent Van Gogh Self Portrait before his Easel

4. Pyramids of Giza in Egypt

5. Parthenon in Athens Greece

6. Reims Cathdral
France
Gothic Architecture

7. Constantine Brancusi
Bird in Space

8. Leonardo DaVinci
Mona Lisa

9. White Temple Ziggurat remains of Uruk- present day Iraq

10. Stele of Hammurabi
Law Code

11. Metope reliefs
(known as the Elgin Marbles)
from the Parthenon in Athens
on display in the British Museum

12. Venus with Mirror (Rokeby Venus) Diego Velazquez

13. The Betrayal of Images Rene Magritte

14. Duane Hanson sculpture- Cowboy

15. Der Schöpfer als Weltenmesser
The Creator as Geometer
Bible Moralisée ca. 1250

16. Tower of Babel Pieter Bruegel The Elder

17. Arrangement in Black and Gray James Abbott McNeill Whistler

18. Jan van Eyck,
The Virgin in a Church, c. 1410 - 25

19. Meret Oppenheimer Fur covered Cup Saucer and Spoon

20. -list and define the formal elements of art.
-identify the expressive qualities of line, shape, and color.
-understand the nature of linear perspective.
-compare shading with shadow.
-describe the color wheel and the properties of color.
-explain the relationship of black and white to color.
-use stylistic terminology to describe an image.

21. abstract
achromatic
analogous hues
asymmetrical
balance
biomorphic
chroma
chromatic
color wheel
complementary color
composition
contour
cross-hatching
foreshortened
formal elements
geometric
hatching
hue
idealized
illusionistic
intensity
linear
modeling
monochromatic
naturalistic
neutral
organic
perspective
picture plane
pigment
primary color
realism
rectilinear
romanticized
saturation
secondary color
shading
stylized
symmetry
tertiary color
intermediate color
texture
three-dimensional
value
vanishing point
visible spectrum