AP Art History
What does College Board Say?
The course is intended to teach the survey of world art history, enhance students' visual literacy and ability to critique and discuss the world of art, prepare the student to take the AP exam, and foster a love and appreciation of art. AP Art History is designed to be a college-level survey course approved by College Board, intended to prepare students for the AP Art History Exam. Students will learn artworks chronologically, beginning with Paleolithic era painting/sculpture and ending with Post-Modernist contemporary artists. We will explore Ancient through the Medieval ages, and Global Arts including Africa, the Ancient North and South Americas, Asia, Near East, Oceania, and Islamic traditions.
Throughout the year the students will be guided by Essential Questions: What is art and how is it made? Why and how does art change? How do we describe our thinking about art? Students will learn art history through experiencing art, contextual and visual analysis, lectures, activities, discussions, creative projects, writing, reading, and understanding art vocabulary. They learn to develop their skill in analyzing works of art including paintings, drawings, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, printmaking, & fibers. An emphasis will be put on learning works of art through context, styles, and meaning to determine century, culture, and artist.
Course Units
The course content is organized into ten commonly taught units:
Global Prehistory, 30000 – 500 BCE (4%) – 11 works
Ancient Mediterranean, 3500 BCE – 300 CE (15%) – 36 works
Early Europe and Colonial Americas, 200 – 1750 CE (21%) – 51 works
Later Europe and Americas, 1750 – 1980 (21%) – 54 works
Indigenous Americas, 1000 BCE – 1980 CE (6%) – 14 works
Africa, 1100 – 1980 CE (6%) – 11 works
West and Central Asia, 500 BCE – 1980 CE (4%) – 11 works
South, East, and Southeast Asia, 300 BCE – 1980 CE (8%) – 21 works
The Pacific, 700 – 1980 CE (4%) – 11 works
Global Contemporary, 1980 – Present (11%) – 27 works
What is AP?
Advanced Placement Program® (AP®)
The Advanced Placement Program® has enabled millions of students to take college-level courses and earn college credit, advanced placement, or both, while still in high school. AP Exams are given each year in May. Students who earn a qualifying score on an AP Exam are typically eligible, in college, to receive credit, placement into advanced courses, or both. Every aspect of AP course and exam development is the result of collaboration between AP teachers and college faculty. They work together to develop AP courses and exams, set scoring standards, and score the exams. College faculty review every AP teacher’s course syllabus.
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AP STUDIO ART: The AP Art and Design Program includes three different courses: AP 2-D Art and Design, AP 3-D Art and Design, and AP Drawing. In each course, you’ll investigate materials, processes, and ideas. You’ll make works of art and design by practicing, experimenting, and revising, and you will communicate your ideas about art and design through written and visual expression.
Your Goal for the Course: You’ll create a portfolio of college-level work and submit it for evaluation (instead of taking a year-end paper-and-pencil AP Exam). A qualifying portfolio score can earn you college credit and/or advanced placement. Want to see examples of portfolio submissions? Check out the 2020 AP Art and Design Exhibit, which showcases outstanding artwork created by students for the May 2020 exam.
AP ART HISTORY: Explore the history of art across the globe from prehistory to the present. You’ll analyze works of art through observation, discussion, reading, and research.
AP Art History is an introductory college-level art history course. Students cultivate their understanding of art history through analyzing works of art and placing them in historical context as they explore concepts like culture and cultural interactions, theories and interpretations of art, the impact of materials, processes, and techniques on art and art-making, and understanding purpose and audience in art historical analysis.
250 Artwork Google Map
Check out the current locations of all 250 works of art from the AP Art History Curriculum framework. Colors indicate the unit.
I want to thank Mrs.Tracey Osborn for the original creation of the map.