AP Art History Week 1 – Lesson 1

Assignment:1. Read the Introduction pages 1-6.2.Create an Outline of the important

concepts, terms, ideas for that section, typed, size 12, Times New Roman font.

3.Create Flash Cards on the following Items: Venus of Willendorf Feline headed human, Stonehenge

FORMAT FOR CREATING FLASH CARDS : • Name: • Date: • Period/Style: • Artist/Architect: • Patron: • Location:

• Material/Technique:

• Function:

• Context:

• Descriptive Terms:

• Relevant Ideas:

FORMAT FOR CREATING FLASH CARDS : • Name: Venus of Willendorf • Date: 22,000 B.C.E. and 21,000 B.C.E• Period/Style: naturalism, prehistoric• Artist/Architect: Unknown • Patron: Unknown • Location: Site of Creation is unknown, found in

Austria• Material/Technique: limestone, subtractive sculptural

form, carved from natural materials • Function: may have been a fetish figure, a talisman or

charm for fertility of humans, animals, plants• Context: shows a keen observation of naturalism in

form, but with an imagination• Descriptive Terms: relatively small, portable size,

emphasis on female reproductive parts, and rudimentary arms, with no facial features and cap-like hair

• Relevant Ideas: Earliest known sculpture