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
○ 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?
