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World Humanities 2230:

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Text: Fiero, The Humanistic Tradtion, 6e Book 3,4,5, &6

 

 TEST #4The end of the semester is near, please double check your syllabus to stay on top of course requirements. The test will cover class information since test #3 including text information, handouts, class lectures, and films. The test is the same as before: Multiple choice, image discussion, short essay and extra credit.

 MULTIPLE CHOICE:  worth about 60% 

ESSAY:  PARAGRAPH ANSWER:  One or two questions requiring a paragraph response

worth about 15% 

EXTRA CREDIT:   Information from the class or text that was not used in the test with the exception of the assigned images (the list above).  

IMAGES -#13 listed below will be worth about 35%:

Identify by 1) title, 2) artist (if given), and 3) style (as given below) and be prepared to write a 50 word (min.) paragraph on each:

 IMPRESSIONISM:
 Monet, “Impression, Sunrise”- p5-117

AFRICA

Egungun Mask, West Africa (handout)

Nail Fetish/ Power figure – Central Africa  - Book 3-p 94

Queen Mother – West Africa  Book 3-86

 “MODERN”

Mondrian, “Composition”– abstraction (OR purism)- 6-19
Picasso “Ladies of Avignon Street” – Cubism- 6-7

Brancusi “ Bird in Space” – Abstract sculpture – 6-16

 

Eiffel Tower, Paris , 19th century  5- 107

“Villa Savoye” – Modern “International” style architecture – 6-23

Wright – Fallingwater – Modern “Organic” style architecture – 6-21

 EXPRESSIONISM (both artists also “Post-Impressionism):

Van Gogh “Starry Night” Expressionism (is also post-Impressionism) p 5-135

Munch, “The Scream”  (is also post-Impressionism) p 6-38

 SURREALISM:

Dali, Persistence of Memory, Surrealism- 6-45

  

 STUDY QUESTIONS

Discuss the African continent geography, climate, size, etc.

Describe the “people” of Africa

Discuss the mask and the masquerade.

Discuss traditional African religion.- define terms-- “taboo” “shaman”  . . . .etc

Discuss African literary tradition – poetry, myths, etc.

Discuss the differences between African and traditional western art.

Discuss the role of dance for the Ashanti people

Discuss the role of the queen mothers

Discuss the god Eshu.

 

Discuss impressionism; what was the “change” in painting, including technique and subject matter?

Which composer attempted to create impressionistic music? 

What were some of the causes of anxiety at the turn of the 20th century?

What was the prevailing mood? Some world events?

 

Very briefly discuss the ideas of intellectual thinkers who had a lasting influence on the 20th c. – such as Freud,             Nietzsche, Darwin, Einstein, Marx

 

Discuss the (modernist) changes in literature, painting, sculpture, monuments, music, and architecture- what made a work “modern?”

Give an example in each discipline and explain the change.

“Abstraction”

 

Discuss Cubism, abstraction, Expressionism, Surrealism as artistic movements. What were some influences that brought about these art movements, including non-western?

Give examples of each style from art, film, music, and/or literature. What characteristics in the given work make it Cubist, Expressionistic or Surrealistic?

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