5/4/10 Art History I

Today's Class- Today I explained the plans for the rest of the semester concerning the take home Final Exams and other components of the final class grade (extra credit, journal articles). In art, we continued our study of the art of Ancient India, then continued on to cover Ancient China.

Important Concepts:

*The evolution of images of Buddha through the history of India, Southeast Asia, and China.

*The similarities and differences between Buddhist and Hindu art in India.

*The philosophical and religious ideals behind Chinese landscape painting of the Song Dynasty.

Homework- The current art events journals, with both articles and your write-ups, are due on Friday, May 7, 2010. I am collecting those that weren't graded as part of the first collection on March 9th. The articles for this second collection should correspond to these dates:

March 16

March 23

April 6

April 13

April 20

April 27

May 4

Extra Credit Update- To get credit for any extra credit assignments, you must turn in the written portion by Friday, May 7, 2010.

********Final Exam*********

The Final Exam will be in the form of a two part take home open book exam. The first part is the cumulative portion, a choice of essays that address concepts over the history of Western Art. This has been posted on the class OceanCruiser page. (log into OceanCruiser, click on this Art History class in your list of classes, and it will be there right on the main Class Update page, right under the link to this blog) I will distribute a hard copy of these instructions on Friday, but the full details of the assignment are there should people want to start sooner. It is due on Tuesday, May 11, 2010.

The second part of the Final Exam will be short answer essays covering Non-Western Art (Book 3). That will be distributed next Tuesday and due on Friday, May 14, 2010.

For next class 5/7/10- Journals and any extra credit are due. Bring a notebook and Book 3 (A View of the World) as we look at the art of Ancient Japan.