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    • 1. Global Prehistory
    • 2. The Pacific
    • 3. Indigenous Americas
    • 4. Africa
    • 5. South, East, and Southeast Asia
    • 6. West and Central Asia
    • 7. Ancient Mediterranean
    • 8. Early Europe and Colonial Americas
    • 9. Later Europe and Americas
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  • Essay Writing
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  • Home
    • About Ms Kotcher
  • APAH overview
    • APAH Syllabus and Exam Info
  • Units
    • Introduction >
      • APAH Glossary
      • ARTCARD instructions
    • 1. Global Prehistory
    • 2. The Pacific
    • 3. Indigenous Americas
    • 4. Africa
    • 5. South, East, and Southeast Asia
    • 6. West and Central Asia
    • 7. Ancient Mediterranean
    • 8. Early Europe and Colonial Americas
    • 9. Later Europe and Americas
    • 10. Global Contemporary
  • Unit Exam Dates
    • Quizlet
  • AP 250 List of Required Works
  • Essay Writing
  • Can't Get Enough Art...Blog
  • Summer Homework
  • Student Art Projects
  • Sweet art finds
Ms Kotcher's​APAH Website

 WHY ARE SOME CREATIONS MORE "SPECIAL" THAN OTHERS? 
​HOW DO THINGS GET CHOSEN TO BE IN MUSEUMS?

BLOG: GLOBAL CONTEMPORARY

3/2/2018

 
Blog Entry: respond to the following questions. Label with APAH (make sure to post the Blog entry along with your response). Head your blog with blog images and questions. Add the video and article to your blog. 

1. Read the article on Dismaland. Watch the video. What is your reaction to this form of art? Is it art? Do you think it art should be political or bring to light social injustice? Think of your culture and how this artwork would be received by the people. 

2. Choose an artwork from Global Contemporary that brings awareness to a social injustice. Do you think the artwork is successful in helping chance the viewers perceptions? Why or Why not? 
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Article: Welcome to Dismaland: A First Look at Banksy’s New Art Exhibition Housed Inside a Dystopian Theme Park

Blog: Koons vs Weiwei

2/26/2018

 
Blog Entry: respond to the following questions. Label with APAH (make sure to post the Blog entry along with your response). Head your blog with blog images and questions. Add the video and article to your blog. 

Compare and contrast how Koons and Weiwei's views of materials and the context in which they produce their art. How do both artists elevate the prosaic using traditional media and/or techniques. 

Koons: exposes elitist views of art and childhood consumerist indcoutnation. 
Weiwei: creates art that responds to his experiences during the Cultural Revolution
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BLOG: LATER EUROPE AND AMERICAS (2)

2/14/2018

 
Blog Entry: respond to the following questions. Label with APAH (make sure to post the Blog entry along with your response). Head your blog with blog images and questions. 

Which artwork has shocked you from Unit 9? Why? In today's world, what might shock a museum visitor? How would the same artwork shock different cultures? ​

BLOG: LATER EUROPE AND AMERICAS (1)

2/5/2018

 
Blog Entry: respond to the following questions. Label with APAH (make sure to post the Blog entry along with your response). Head your blog with blog images and questions. 

​Read the following excerpt, paraphrase it, and list the examples of works we've studied or images from popular culture that support ideas expressed within the excerpt. 
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       "In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy on to the female form, which is styled accordingly. In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness. Woman displayed as sexual object is the leit-motif of erotic spectacle...she holds the look, plays to and signifies male desire." - Laura Mulvey, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.

BLOG: EARLY EUROPE AND COLONIAL AMERICAS

2/1/2018

 
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Blog Entry: respond to the following questions. Label with APAH (make sure to post the Blog entry along with your response). Head your blog with blog images and questions. 

Imagine yourself 20 years from now. You have achieved success and are being honored with a painted portrait that will be hung in public. How would you pose? How would you be dressed? What expression would you be wearing and what would you do with your hands? What kind of setting would you choose? What objects would be near you? Remember, people's ideas of you will be forever based on this: who do you want to be? 

Blog: Roman Art

11/4/2017

 
Blog Entry: respond to the following questions. Label with APAH (make sure to post the Blog entry along with your response). Head your blog with blog images and questions.
Imagine you are a traveler from coming from India to Rome during the High Roman Period. Describe three major works of architecture you would see in Rome that you had not seen before. Use art and architecture vocabulary.

Roman Art Funnies

11/3/2017

 
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Blog: Ancient Greek

11/2/2017

 
Blog Entry: respond to the following questions. Label with APAH (make sure to post the Blog entry along with your response). Head your blog with blog images and questions.
How does the grave stele of Hegeso reflect both the cultural values and the formal artistic norms of the High Classical period?
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Ancient Greek Funnies

10/31/2017

 
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BLOG: MESOPOTAMIAN ART

10/30/2017

 
​Blog Entry: respond to the following questions. Label with APAH (make sure to post the Blog entry along with your response). Head your blog with blog images and questions.
After learning about The Code of Hammurabi, you have been asked to now write a code for the WBAIS students. Rules can be funny or serious.
​Correctly cite the artwork in your response.
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Blog: EGYPTIAN Art

10/11/2017

 
Blog Entry: respond to the following questions. Label with APAH (make sure to post the Blog entry along with your response). Head your blog entry with the images and blog question/s. 
Fully identify these four structures. How do they reflect cultural concerns and values? Use visual and contextual evidence to support your response.

EGYPTIAN Funnies

10/10/2017

 
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How to study art history

10/1/2017

 

Blog: West and Central Asia

9/30/2017

 
Blog Entry: respond to the following questions. Label with APAH (make sure to post the Blog entry along with your response). 
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Formal Analysis using Art Elements and Principles:
Analyze the form of the four artworks below using correct art vocabulary. Bold the Art Elements and Principles in your entry. 

Blog: s, e, and SE Asia

9/23/2017

 
Blog Entry: respond to the following questions. Label with APAH (make sure to post the Blog entry along with your response). 
Dream Trip:
The College Board wants to send YOU on a two week trip to see one of the APAH 250 artworks in S, SE, or E Asia in person! Pick an artwork from one of the following locations: China, Cambodia or India.
Why did you chose this place to visit? As a tourist today in the country, what can you expect to find or experience? What are your fears or concerns about traveling to see the artwork? Write about what you think it would be like to see the artwork in person after researching and understanding its context. ​

S, E, and SE Asia PARODIES

9/22/2017

 
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Blog: Architecture and Sacred Space

9/21/2017

 
Blog Entry: respond to the following questions. Label with APAH. 
Architecture and Sacred Space: 

These structures mark “sacred space.” Are there architectural characteristics that they share? What differentiates and separates these structures from non-sacred space and ordinary structures?  ​

Blog: Rites of Passage

9/18/2017

 
Blog Entry: respond to the following questions. Label with APAH. 
Rites of Passage: 

What rites of passage are there in our society for girls moving from childhood into adulthood? For boys? What roles do adults play in this? How have those rites changed over the past century? ​

Indigenous Americas funnies

9/17/2017

 

BLOG: NAVIGATION

9/10/2017

 
Blog Entry Navigation: respond to the following questions. Label with APAH and post your blog in the comment section below.
1. Describe a time you were lost. How did it feel? 
2. Write a precise, step by step directions for your travel from school to home. 
3. Write the same directions above without street names. Was this more difficult? 
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