Ap Art History Exam 2016

Advanced Placement course and test

Advanced Placement (AP) Art History (also known as AP Art, or APAH) is an Advanced Placement art history course and exam offered by the College Lath.

AP Art History is designed to permit students to examine major forms of artistic expression relevant to a variety of cultures axiomatic in a wide variety of periods from present times into the past. Students acquire an ability to examine works of art critically, with intelligence and sensitivity, and to articulate their thoughts and experiences. The grade content covers prehistoric, Mediterranean, European, American, Native American, African, Asian, Pacific, and Contemporary art and architecture.^[1]

Course [edit]

The grade is designed to teach the following fine art historical skills:

• Visual Analysis
• Contextual Analysis
• Comparisons of Works of Fine art
• Creative Traditions
• Visual Analysis of Unknown Works
• Attribution of Unknown Works
• Art Historical Interpretations
• Argumentation

The course is also congenital on five cadre "Big Ideas":

• Civilization
• Interactions with Other Cultures
• Theories and Interpretations
• Materials, Processes, and Techniques
• Purpose and Audition

Starting in the 2015–2016 school yr, College Board has introduced a new curriculum and exam for students to apply art historical skills to questions.^{[2] [3]}

Topic Outline^[4]

Unit	Time Period	Approximate Exam Weighting
Unit i: Global Prehistory	thirty,000 - 500 BCE	iv%
Unit 2: Ancient Mediterranean	3500 BCE - 300 CE	fifteen%
Unit 3: Early on Europe and Colonial America	200 - 1750 CE	21%
Unit of measurement four: Afterwards Europe and Americas	1750 - 1980 CE	21%
Unit 5: Indigenous Americas	thou BCE - 1980 CE	vi%
Unit 6: Africa	1100 - 1980 CE	half-dozen%
Unit 7: West and Fundamental Asia	500 BCE - 1980 CE	four%
Unit 8: South, Eastward, and Southeast Asia	300 BCE - 1980 CE	8%
Unit 9: The Pacific	700 - 1980 CE	4%
Unit 10: Global Gimmicky	1980 CE to Nowadays	11%

Exam [edit]

Multiple Choice (50% of Score)	Free Response (50% of Score)
80 Questions in 1 Hr Approximately 8 Sets of 3-six Questions Based on Color Images 35% Individual Multiple Choice Questions Based on the Knowledge of the 250 Required Images	6 Essay Questions in two Hours 2 30-Infinitesimal Essay Questions seven Points Each 4 xv-Infinitesimal Essay Questions 5 Points Each Essay Questions Oftentimes Include Images of Works of Art as Stimuli Based on the Knowledge of the 250 Required Images Response Written in Academic Essay Format

Score distribution [edit]

The multiple choice section of the examination is worth 50% of a educatee'due south score and the costless-response is worth 50%. Each correctly answered multiple choice question is worth 1 point. Incorrect and omitted questions practice not bear upon the raw score.^[5] For the free-response section, the iv brusque essays are each graded on a scale of 0 to v and the two long essays are each graded on a scale of 0 to 7.

Final Score	2016[six]	2017[7]	2018[8]	2019[nine]	2020[10]	2021[11]	2022[12]
5	11.1%	11%	12.8%	11.ix%	15.viii%	11%	14.one%
4	22.six%	23.one%	24.3%	24.6%	24.9%	nineteen%	20.5%
3	27.7%	27.3%	27.6%	26.six%	28.0%	24%	26.vii%
2	27.half-dozen%	26.2%	25.5%	24.seven%	21.iii%	30%	27.one%
one	11.0%	12.4%	9.8%	12.2%	ten.0%	16%	eleven.6%
% of Scores 3 or Higher	61.4%	61.4%	64.seven%	63.1%	68.seven%	54%	64.3%
Mean Score	2.95	ii.94	3.05	2.99	iii.15	2.79
Standard Deviation	one.18	1.19	1.eighteen	1.21	ane.21	ane.24
Number of Students	25,523	25,178	24,964	24,476	23,567	18,552

Works studied [edit]

The current curriculum, which began in 2015, focuses on 250 works of fine art and architecture across x units, beginning with prehistoric fine art and ending with contemporary fine art.^[thirteen]

Global Prehistory (30,000 - 500 BCE)

• Apollo 11 stone
• Slap-up Hall of the Bulls
• Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine
• Running horned woman
• Chalice with ibex motifs
• Anthropomorphic stele
• Jade cong
• Stonehenge
• The Ambum rock
• Tlatilco female figurine
• Terracotta fragment

Ancient Mediterranean (3500 BCE - 300 CE)

• White Temple and its ziggurat
• Palette of Rex Narmer
• Statues of votive figures, from the Square Temple at Eshunna (modern Tell Asmar, Iraq)
• Seated scribe
• Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur (modern Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq)
• Great Pyramids (Menkaura, Khafre, Khufu) and Great Sphinx
• King Menkaura and queen
• The Code of Hammurabi
• Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall
• Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut
• Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and 3 daughters
• Tutankhamun's tomb, innermost coffin
• Last sentence of Hunefer, from his tomb (page from the Book of the Expressionless)
• Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin (modernistic Khorsabad, Republic of iraq)
• Athenian agora
• Anavysos Kouros
• Peplos Kore from the Acropolis
• Sarcophagus of the Spouses
• Audition Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes
• Temple of Minerva (Veii, well-nigh Rome, Italy) and sculpture of Apollo
• Tomb of the Triclinium
• Niobides Krater
• Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)
• Acropolis
• Grave stele of Hegeso
• Winged Victory of Samothrace
• Bang-up Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon
• House of the Vettii
• Alexander Mosaic from the House of Faun, Pompeii
• Seated boxer
• Head of a Roman patrician
• Augustus of Prima Porta
• Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)
• Forum of Trajan
• Pantheon
• Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus

Early Europe and Colonial Americas (200 - 1750 CE)

• Catacomb of Priscilla
• Santa Sabina
• Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well and Jacob Wrestling the Angel, from the Vienna Genesis
• San Vitale
• Hagia Sophia
• Merovingian looped fibulae
• Virgin (Theotokos) and Kid between Saints Theodore and George
• Lindisfarne Gospels: St. Matthew, cantankerous-rug page; St. Luke portrait page; St. Luke incipit page
• Dandy Mosque
• Pyxis of al-Mughira
• Church of Sainte-Foy
• Bayeux Tapestry
• Chartres Cathedral
• Dedication Page with Blanche of Castile and King Louis IX of France, Scenes from the Apocalypse
• Röttgen Pietà
• Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel, including Lamentation
• Golden Haggadah (The Plagues of Egypt, Scenes of Liberation, and Preparation for Passover)
• Alhambra
• Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
• Pazzi Chapel
• The Arnolfini Portrait
• David
• Palazzo Rucellai
• Madonna and Kid with Ii Angels
• Birth of Venus
• Last Supper
• Adam and Eve
• Sistine Chapel ceiling and altar wall frescoes
• School of Athens
• Isenheim altarpiece
• Entombment of Christ
• Allegory of Law and Grace
• Venus of Urbino
• Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza
• Il Gesù, including Triumph of the Name of Jesus ceiling fresco
• Hunters in the Snow
• Mosque of Selim II
• Calling of Saint Matthew
• Henri IV Receives the Portrait of Marie de' Medici, from the Marie de' Medici Cycle
• Self-Portrait with Saskia
• San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
• Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
• Angel with Arquebus, Asiel Timor Dei
• Las Meninas
• Woman Holding a Residue
• The Palace at Versailles
• Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and hunting scene
• The Virgin of Guadalupe (Virgen de Guadalupe)
• Fruit and Insects
• Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo
• The Tête à Tête, from Wedlock à la Mode

Later Europe and Americas (1750 - 1980 CE)

• Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
• A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery
• The Swing
• Monticello
• The Adjuration of the Horatii
• George Washington
• Self-Portrait^[a]
• Y no hai remedio (And There's Nothing to Be Done), from Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of State of war), plate xv
• La Grande Odalisque
• Freedom Leading the People
• The Oxbow (View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, later a Thunderstorm)
• Still Life in Studio
• Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Expressionless and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)
• Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament)
• The Stone Breakers
• Nadar Raising Photography to the Acme of Art
• Olympia
• The Saint-Lazare Station^[b]
• The Horse in Motility
• The Valley of United mexican states from the Hillside of Santa Isabel (El Valle de México desde el Cerro de Santa Isabel)
• The Burghers of Calais
• The Starry Night
• The Coiffure
• The Scream
• Where Practice We Come From? What Are Nosotros? Where Are We Going?
• Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building
• Mont Sainte-Victoire
• Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
• The Steerage
• The Kiss
• The Kiss
• The Portuguese
• Goldfish ^[c]
• Improvisation 28 (second version)
• Self-Portrait equally a Soldier
• Memorial Sheet for Karl Liebknecht
• Villa Savoye
• Composition with Ruddy, Blue, and Yellow
• Illustration from The Results of the First 5-Year Plan
• Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure)
• Fallingwater
• The Two Fridas
• The Migration of the Negro, Console no. 49
• The Jungle^[d]
• Dream of a Lord's day Afternoon in the Alameda Park
• Fountain (2nd version)
• Woman, I
• Seagram Edifice
• Marilyn Diptych
• Narcissus Garden
• The Bay^[e]
• Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks
• Spiral Jetty
• House in New Castle County

1. ^ Painting by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun.
2. ^ Painting by Claude Monet.
3. ^ Painting by Henri Matisse.
4. ^ Painting by Wifredo Lam.
5. ^ Painting by Helen Frankenthaler.

Indigenous Americas (1000 BCE - 1980 CE)

• Chavín de Huántar
• Mesa Verde cliff dwellings
• Yaxchilán
• Great Snake Mound
• Templo Mayor (Main Temple)
• Ruler's plumage headdress (probably of Motecuhzoma II)
• City of Cusco, including Qorikancha (Inka main temple), Santo Domingo (Spanish colonial convent), and Walls at Saqsa Waman (Sacsayhuaman)
• Maize cobs
• City of Machu Picchu
• All-T'oqapu tunic
• Bandolier pocketbook^[a]
• Transformation mask
• Painted elk hide
• Black-on-blackness ceramic vessel

1. ^ Produced by the Delaware people.

Africa (1100 - 1980 CE)

• Conical tower and circular wall of Great Zimbabwe
• Great Mosque of Djenné
• Wall plaque, from Oba's palace
• Sika dwa kofi (Gilded Stool)
• Ndop (portrait figure) of Rex Mishe miShyaang maMbul
• Power figure (Nkisi n'kondi)
• Female (Pwo) mask
• Portrait mask (Mblo)
• Bundu mask
• Ikenga (shrine figure)
• Lukasa (retentivity board)
• Aka elephant mask
• Reliquary figure (byeri)
• Veranda post of enthroned king and senior wife (Opo Ogoga)

West and Fundamental Asia (500 BCE - 1980 CE)

• Petra, Jordan: Treasury and Great Temple
• Buddha
• The Kaaba
• Jowo Rinpoche, enshrined in the Jokhang Temple
• Dome of the Rock
• Bully Mosque (Masjid-e Jameh)
• Page from a Qur'an
• Basin (Baptistère de St. Louis)
• Bahram Gur Fights the Karg, folio from the Great Il-Khanid Shahnama
• The Court of Gayumars, folio from Shah Tahmasp'southward Shahnama
• The Ardabil Carpet

South, Eastward, and Southeast Asia (300 BCE - 1980 CE)

• Great Stupa at Sanchi
• Terra cotta warriors from mausoleum of the first Qin emperor of China
• Funeral banner of Lady Dai (Xin Zhui)
• Longmen caves
• Golden and jade crown
• Todai-ji
• Borobudur Temple
• Angkor, the temple of Angkor Wat, and the city of Angkor Thom, Cambodia
• Lakshmana Temple
• Travelers amongst Mountains and Streams
• Shiva as Lord of Dance (Nataraja)
• Night Set on on the Sanjô Palace
• The David Vases
• Portrait of Sin Sukju (1417-1475)
• Forbidden City
• Ryoan-ji
• Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings
• Taj Mahal
• White and Red Plum Blossoms
• Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as the Great Moving ridge, from the series Thirty-vi Views of Mountain Fuji
• Chairman Mao en Road to Anyuan

The Pacific (700 - 1980 CE)

• Nan Madol
• Moai on platform (ahu)
• 'Ahu 'ula (feather cape)
• Staff god^[a]
• Female person deity^[b]
• Buk (mask)
• Hiapo (tapa)
• Tamati Waka Nene
• Navigation chart
• Malagan display and mask
• Presentation of Fijian mats and tapa cloths to Queen Elizabeth Ii

1. ^ Wooden cult figures from Rarotonga.
2. ^ Wooden sculptures from Nukuoro.

Global Contemporary (1980 CE - Nowadays)

• The Gates
• Vietnam Veterans Memorial
• Horn Players^[a]
• Summertime Trees^[b]
• Androgyne 3
• A Book from the Sky
• Pink Panther
• Untitled #228, from the History Portraits series
• The French Collection Office I, #1: Dancing at the Louvre
• Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People)
• Earth's Creation
• Rebellious Silence, from the Women of Allah series
• En la Barberia no se Llora (No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop)
• Pisupo Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000)
• Electronic Superhighway
• The Crossing^[c]
• Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
• Pure Land^[d]
• Lying with the Wolf
• Darkytown Rebellion
• The Swing (afterwards Fragonard)
• Old Man'southward Material
• Stadia 2
• Preying Mantra
• Shibboleth
• MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts
• Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)

Notes

1. ^ Painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat.
2. ^ Painting by Song Su-Nam.
3. ^ Mixed-media presentation by Bill Viola.
4. ^ Mixed-media presentation by Mariko Mori.

References [edit]

1. ^ https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/pdf/ap-art-history-form-a-glance.pdf?grade=ap-art-history^{[ blank URL PDF ]}
2. ^ Urist, Jacoba (February 2016). "Rewriting Art History". The Atlantic.
3. ^ "AP Art History Exam". 10 July 2006.
4. ^ https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/pdf/ap-art-history-course-a-glance.pdf?course=ap-art-history^{[ bare URL PDF ]}
5. ^ "Dwelling house - AP Key | Higher Board". xiv March 2017.
6. ^ Full Registration. "2016 AP Exam Score Distributions" (PDF). secure-media.collegeboard.org . Retrieved 2016-07-01 .
7. ^ Total Registration. "2017 AP Exam Score Distributions" (PDF). secure-media.collegeboard.org . Retrieved 2017-06-xv .
8. ^ https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/research/2018/Student-Score-Distributions-2018.pdf^{[ bare URL PDF ]}
9. ^ "Student SCORE DISTRIBUTIONS" (PDF). www.totalregistration.net . Retrieved July 9, 2020.
10. ^ "Student SCORE DISTRIBUTIONS" (PDF) . Retrieved June 9, 2021.
11. ^ Full Registration (2021-07-13). "2021 AP Exam Score Distributions". www.totalregistration.cyberspace. Archived from the original on 2021-07-08. Retrieved 2021-07-15 .
12. ^ Total Registration (2022-06-23). "2022 AP Exam Score Distributions". world wide web.totalregistration.net . Retrieved 2022-06-23 .
13. ^ https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap-art-history-course-and-examination-description.pdf^{[ bare URL PDF ]}

Further reading [edit]

• The College Board, AP® Art History Course and Exam Description, Effective Fall 2015, Nov 20, 2015; revised and corrected edition April 21, 2017. Includes sample tests and curricula, with appendices on 250 required works.
• Harris, Beth; Zucker, Steven (January 25, 2017). "Required works of art for AP Art History". Smarthistory . Retrieved June fourteen, 2018. An open educational resource for art history, with free images and texts on 250 required works of fine art in revised test.
• Khan Academy, AP® Art History, free study resource keyed to revised exam.
• Nici, John A. (2015). Barron'due south AP Art History (3rd. ed.). Hauppage, NY: Barron's. ISBN978-one-4380-0493-viii. Text with CD-ROM ISBN 978-1-4380-7513-half dozen Third edition focused on 250 required works in revised exam.

External links [edit]

• AP Art History at CollegeBoard.com

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