AP Art History

250 required works, attribution, and the visual/contextual essay.

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What's in Art Hist

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U1Global Prehistory

U2Ancient Mediterranean

U3Early Europe & Colonial Americas

U4Later Europe & Americas

U5Indigenous Americas

U6Africa

U7West & Central Asia

U8South, East & Southeast Asia

U9Pacific

U10Global Contemporary

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Q1Formal Analysismedium

The term 'chiaroscuro' in art history refers to:

Q2Contextual Analysismedium

The Greek Parthenon was built primarily to:

Q3Stylistic Analysishard

Which feature distinguishes Baroque art from Renaissance art?

Q4Iconographymedium

In Christian art, the halo (nimbus) around a figure's head primarily signifies:

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Visual Analysis Free Response:
Analyze Käthe Kollwitz's lithograph 'The Mothers' (1921–22) from her War cycle.

(a) Describe the formal elements of the work (line, composition, use of black and white, figures) and explain how these formal choices contribute to its emotional impact.
(b) Explain how the historical context of post-WWI Germany shapes the meaning of this work.
(c) Compare this work to Goya's 'The Third of May, 1808' in terms of how each artist represents the human…

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