Art History 102 Final Exam Study Guide

Art History 102 Final Exam Study Guide

Wednesday December 21st

* Please complete your graded blog post by December 14th.

Part 1: Slide ID - (25%)

These 25 Slides must be memorized:

Fragonard The Swing Date 1766 

Caravaggio Doubting Thomas c. 1600

Velazquez Las Meninas (Maids of Honor) 1656

Theodore Gericault The Raft of the Medusa 1818-1819

Gustave Courbet The Stone Breakers 1849

Peter Paul Rubens The Disembarkment of Marie de Medici at Port of Marseilles, 3 Nov1600 1622 -1626 

Manet Olympia 1863

RembrandtThe Nightwatch 1642 

Paul Cezanne Mont Sainte-Victorie ca. 1885-1887

Seurat A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte 1884-1886

Rodin The Gates of Hell 1880-1900

Henri Matisse The Red Studio 1911

Pablo Picasso Les Demoiselles d’Avignon 1907

GoyaThe Third of May,1808 The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid 1814 

Oskar Kokoschka The Bride of the Wind 1914

Constantin Brancusi Bird in Space 1928

Meret Oppenheim Object (Luncheon in Fur) 1936

Jackson Pollock Autumn Rhythm: Number 30 1950

Marcel Duchamp The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) 1915 -1923

Jacques-Louis David Oath of the Horatii 1784 

Piet Mondrian Broadway Boogie Woogie 1942-43

Willem de Kooning Woman I. 1950-52

Eva Hesse Untitled (Rope Piece) 1970

Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty 1970

Carolee Schneemann Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions 1963

Part II: Short Comparison Essays (75% total; 25% each - 20 minutes each)

Each of these artworks, artists and their historical contexts should be extensively researched in preparation for your in class essay. Use your notes, book, and library and online research to aid in your preparation. Points will be given in each answer for:

The correct identification of the given works; a brief formal analysis of the works in themselves and in comparison to the other given; the connection of the formal aspects of the work to the historical/social context of is creation; and finally a larger analysis of what the pair says - what argument or meaning is proposed or reveal by their being brought together. 

A. Donatello, David 1425-1429; Michelangelo, David 1504; Bernini, David 1623-1624

1. Artemisia Gentileschi Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting 1630; Hannah Wilke S.O.S. Starification Object Series 1974 -1982 

1. GoyaThe Third of May,1808 The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid 1814; Pablo Picasso Guerinca 1937.