Fine art

Week 1 Summary Paper

Choose one of the following prompts. Remember to use and define, in your own words, two terms from the terms list in the weekly module (Terms List). Your terms must be underlined. 

Prehistoric

Compare and contrast a Paleolithic structure (building or dwelling place of some sort) and a Neolithic structure with a focus on purpose, building material, and size. What do the differences reveal about the two periods? Choose 2 images to discuss.

 

First Civilizations

Images of kings from the first civilizations often try to connect the ruler with a god or to present the ruler as a deity.  Discuss why this is so and analyze how it is accomplished in two works of art, each from a different culture (i.e Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, or Persian).  Choose 2 images to discuss.

 

Egyptian

Compare and contrast sculptures of the pharaoh from Old Kingdom Egypt and from New Kingdom Egypt. How are they different? What were these sculptures used for? How are these sculptures related to their beliefs about the afterlife? Choose 2 images to discuss.

Terms List

The following is a list of terms that will be required to be used in your summary paper.

Introduction

· Period Style

· Regional Style

· Personal Style

· form

· composition

· line

· color

· texture

· space

· perspective

· foreshortening

· proportion

· scale

· relief sculpture

Prehistory and the First Civilizations 

· registers or friezes

· ground line

· votive offering

· pictograph

· twisted perspective/composite view

· stele

· hierarchy of scale

· conceptual representation 

· optical representation 

· Paleolithic (style)

· Neolithic (style)

· post-and-lintel construction

· corbeled construction

· hieroglyph 

· mastaba

· canon

· hypostyle

· clerestory

The paper guidelines

In a paragraph that is BETWEEN 250-300 words, you are to respond to the prompt of your choice. You MUST correctly use at least two terms from the weekly unit, These terms MUST be underlined in your summary paper. The definition of the term must be included in your paper, but do NOT underline the definition