VISA 1Q99: Midterm Format
There will be THREE parts to the test. You are responsible for all class material so far this term, from the first class until March 1st. This includes lectures, readings, seminars and guest lectures. Total time: 1 hour.
Section 1: Multiple Choice
Time: 10 minutes (10 x 1 minutes)
Value: 20 marks (10 questions x 2 marks)
Number: 10 questions, no choice
Section II: Short Answer
Time: 40 minutes (2 x 20 minutes)
Value: 60 (2 questions x 30 marks
Number: 2 questions (from a choice of 3)
* This must be in paragraph form, with full sentences. Class material (lectures) must be used.
These will be questions about the material presented in lectures. Focus your studying around the main topics and issue covered in class. You will have to support your answer with examples, so you should learn 2 examples of works of art (artist, title, date) to go with each major topic covered in class. The examples should be images shown in lecture. You will be asked to refer to material presented in lecture.
Section III: Terms
Time: 20 minutes (4 x 5 minutes)
Value: 20 (4 questions x 5 marks)
Number: 4 (from a choice of 6)
* This must be in paragraph form, with full sentences. Class material (lectures) must be used.
The six terms will be chosen from the list below:
humanism
Salomon Reinach
kouros
Khafre
Gothic
relic
Olympia
Master buildrs
Leon Battista Alberti
Medici family
loci sancti
Renaissance
Romanesque
Giotto
perspective
Each answer must include:
a) a good definition of the term (3 points)
b) a specific example (artist, date, title) – MUST be spelled correctly and within 10 years of the correct date (one point)
c) an explanation of the importance of the term for the study of art and art history (1 point
Example: contrapposto: Around 480 BC in Greece, the Classical period, there was a remarkable shift in art from a stylized form to a naturalistic style that did way with some of the rigidity of the geometric style and attempted to show bodies that were more life like. Contrapposto, a term used to describe the figure’s position in sculpture or painting where the weight is placed on one leg, the knee is bent and the hips tilt, was one of the main elements in this shift. In the anonymous Kroisos Kouros, made of marble in c.480 BC, contrapposto allows the figure to seem to stand in a more natural way. Contrapposto was a significant discovery because it is much more lifelike, giving way to a more naturalistic style that stands in contrast to the stylized forms of earlier Greek sculpture and Egyptian sculpture.
