#ap art history

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Neil Gaiman was my AP art history teacher. He had a Scandinavian accent.

(Which is weird because I don’t think I’ve ever heard a Scandinavian accent before???)

#dream #neil gaiman #scandinavian #scandinavian accent #ap art history #teacher #school

[annasellheim]

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#comic #comics #art #proud #drawing #sketch #artist #autobio comics #grandma #graphite #van gogh #vincent van gogh #van gough #fine art #painting #painter #mental health #mental illness #mental health awareness #coping #art history #art class #ap art history #starry night #lonley #tragic #book #art books #book quotes #books

[lunebits]

ap class tips

for those in ap classes who are struggling. also for those who aren't really. whatever.

just as an intro to my qualifications:

i go to a stem high school (will be graduating next sem!) where all the classes are already advanced as is (our ap classes are also taught differently!) i've taken a total of 10 ap classes during my time, and while that isn't as much as others, i'd say i have a pretty good spread of ap classes i took!

general ap class tips

remember that the ultimate goal for you taking this course is to take the exam and get a 4/5 (reach for that 5!). yes, the grade is important, but that score at the end after that exam might save anywhere from $600-$1200+ in college. so focus your energy on that exam once the exams are encroaching!

make friends in your ap classes. trauma bonding is real (/j) so making friends that will help you study or might save you when you accidentally forgot is key.

and while they all say "study a bit every night!" that's hard to do. the rule of thumb here for every class will be in the categorized sections, so don't worry (i gotchu!!)

ap math (calc ab/bc, stat, physics, chem, etc.)

i personally didn't take physics or chem bc i didn't want to, but i did take bc and got a 5 (yes, i'm so proud)!

rule of thumb for studying at home: do your homework everyday and actually take the time to understand what the hell you're doing. understand what the process is behind solving the problem. be able to pull out the variables. practice, practice, practice. also, this is one of those subjects where it's actually worth it to study it at home everyday.

ANOTHER RULE: practice tests. these math exams are about stamina and speed. if you can solve a problem, great! but now here comes 20 more screaming your name. but, if you can get the timing down before your exam, that's even better. so go waste your saturday afternoon at that mock exam if you need to. another saturday will come in time anyway. ask your teacher for mock exams. get that practice workbook. whatever it takes. get the timing in your hand.

just as a quote from my teacher, "life is about choices, and we are all busy people." don't waste your time doing something that'll waste your time. even if you can't remember it, that's okay. just keep moving and score more points somewhere else. and also, do the easy route. only memorize the easy route.

math is about patterns. patterns rule math. extract that pattern out of that problem, memorize it, and you'll be just fine.

FRQS WILL HURT YOUR BRAIN AND THAT'S OKAY! collegeboard has a very specific way it wants you to answer these questions. the best way to learn the format is to do so many frqs your hands hurt. because in any exam that involves math, you genuinely need to do better on the frqs. they'll land you more points. yes, the mcq might get you that 5, but the frqs become the basic 3 or 4 that you need. your teacher will hopefully teach you the format, but if they don't, the collegeboard ap website has all the past frqs they've ever made.

YOU WILL BE OKAY. I PROMISE. make sure that if you cry, you understand your disappointment then move on to a larger action plan.

ap histories/humanities (art history, u.s history, euro, world, etc.)

i've taken all the histories that my school offers (apush, euro, apwh, apah, etc.)

rule of thumb: don't study at home unless there's a test coming up or you're bad at putting stuff in order.

GET YOUR WRITING SKILLS DOWN PAT. this is the thing that'll get you the most points. that mcq section is a killer, but doing 3-6 (looking at you apah exam) right after might just kill you. so please, get your stamina up. just write. just keep writing.

timeline shit for history. because when it comes down to it, knowing the sequence of events and knowing the events themselves are more important than dates or whatever.

if you're worried about coherency in your writing, jot down a small pre-writing list.

memorize every single rubric. luckily, the dbq/leq rubric is the same across apush, apwh, and euro. you'll get away with just memorizing the two. the apah rubric is a little different, and the ap lit rubric is a little different. just memorize them as best you can.

when writing, cater to your reader. make things easy to spot and easy to grade. they'll give you a higher score if they can clearly see where things are.

just practice mcqs. all the stimulus will have something you can pull out of it (unless it's like apah where you're meant to memorize the works). but every question will have an answer that's in the passage. practice finding that answer. (this one is still really hard)

all these tests are tests of stamina. and sometimes, they're on the same goddamn day because collegeboard hates love us. just keep going. grab a snack. rest your eyes, go.

essays are the bane of everyone’s existence in ap courses because you’re on this strict rubric and have this mythical complexity/sophistication point that you need to give your hopes and dreams of achieving. BUT. but. you’ll be okay. especially for exams like the ap lit/apah exam, you get to come in knowing at least a bit of the exam (for ap lit, a good part of the frq weight. for apah, 90% of the test). TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT!! know a novel inside and out. know the works inside and out. you’ll be okay. stretch your hands, breathe, write.

ap sciences (bio, physics, chem, psych, econ)

i've personally taken bio and both econs, but these are all concept based, so the same general tips apply.

rule of thumb: if you don't understand it in class, you need to study it at home asap. seriously. because you sure as hell won’t be able to put it together during class the next day. whats good though is that there’s so many resources online (esp videos!!) for all the ap sciences that it’s actually crazy.

read your textbook. science is great with a textbook in your hand. you don't even need to read the whole thing. just skim through it to add information to your class notes. most times that works.

because the questions are concept based, the mcq/frqs are a little hard to get used to. SO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS: don’t ignore your responsibilities and learn what these questions look like.

flashcards. USE FLASHCARDS. so much of science is not only understanding concepts but applying them. to apply them, you need to know them by heart. and to know them by heart means flashcards to drill yourself.

and speaking of applying your knowledge, you need to take things slowly. approach questions with this framework: 1) read the problem + understand what concept it’s asking about. 2) pull out that information from your sexy brain. 3) solve the problem based on what you can remember. to truly understand, include a lot of examples in your notes. AND MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND WHY AND HOW THEY WORK. the why and the how are more important than the what.

misc tips 🌷

burnout is inevitable if you don’t manage your time correctly. there’s people online that can explain how to manage your energy more than me so please go watch them instead lmfao

try your best to stay on your schedule. the more you push your tasks to this arbitrary tomorrow, the more you absolutely won’t do them.

honey, you need to bring a snack and a water bottle to those exams, you get like a 10 minute break that isn’t enough for the mental taxation (without representation) that happens on those exams. they’re brutal.

the classes themselves are not as bad you think. i promise. most of the time, you’ll actually have fun. and it’s really cool to be learning at a college level. so keep at it! the moment you hate something, the moment you begin to stop trying as hard and your grades start slipping. keep finding the next thing to delude yourself into enjoying (/hj).

#ap exams #ap classes #ap euro #ap bio #ap world history #apush me off a cliff #ap us history #ap art history #ap art history my love #i’m serious i loved apah sm #i didn’t take ap physics that’s a problem for later #study tips #ap literature #ap gov

[postbreakuphex]

I love medieval children. People just grew up faster back then without all the iPads and participation trophies to hold them back. What a shame.

#art #comedy #children #catholic #saints #medieval #stupid #medieval art #weird aesthetic #the good old days #history #art history #ap art history #ipad kid

[bellabishara]

where am i from again?

12 in. x 16 in.

not for sale

#art #artists on tumblr #artwork #fine art #contemporary art #portrait #original art #digital art #art history #drawing #self portrait #egypt #ancient egypt #egyptian #egyptology #ap art #ap art portfolio #ap art class #ap art history #portraiture

[morallygays]

ap art history is kicking my ass but on the bright side now i get more of the classical allusions that make 50% of the les mis fanfic i read

#les mis #art history #ap art history #sage's bullshit

[toto-dreamer]

ap classes ranked by how badly they made me want to drop out

ap art history -- i was sobbing crying nightly trying to memorise 'tamati waka nene' to the tune of africa by shakira

ap us history -- it moved incredibly slowly at times and incredibly quickly over the interesting bits. tell me why we spent no time at the revolutionary war and spent three weeks talking about cold war economics

ap world history -- don't ask me about the ottomans if you want to see me happy and content

ap 2d art an design -- spent a month straight trying to scrape my portfolio together on college board. it kept deleting my progress. and each image took like 3 hours to format and load. so happy it was over. liked the drawing bit though

ap language -- very chill!! liked writing essays and reading the news. never got complexity but i resigned myself to it :(

ap European history -- honestly really fun. machiavelli is my bro. napoleon is my babygirl. leonardo da Vinci is gay

#ap exams #ap art history #ap world #ap language #ap art class #ap classes

[aceoflanterns]

born to enjoy forced to interpret 😞😞😞😞😞

#can you tell i'm regretting taking apah as an online class #i would love these works... but damn if i hate writing about them from a technical standpoint #why i hate ap lit rn actually #ap art history #ap lit #arguably ap lang #ace rambles

[nyquil-guzzler-420]

(in a murder documentary voice)

AP art was fun...

until it wasn't.

#ap art portfolio #ap art history #seriously oh my god it was fun until the past two weeks i only have 10 works done when i need at least 15-20 i am going to explode HELP ME

[aparthistorymemes]

why do neither of my fibulas look like this???? mine are literally just straight and white and boring????

#merovingian looped fibulae #art history #ap art history

[allaboutaparthistory]

41. Seated boxer

Hellenistic Greek

Created c. 100 BCE

Bronze

Visual: The Seated Boxer is a bronze sculpture of a man sitting on a rock. He is not wearing anything except for hand wraps. He has a pained and fearful expression on his face, and he is gazing up to the sky. On the Boxer’s face are cuts and scratches, likely from his opponent. His entire build is idealized, as he is very muscular on his arms, upper, and lower body, and he has a masculine face. He also has curly hair, which was considered an ideal feature in ancient Greece.

Context: This piece was made during the Hellenistic Period of Greece. During this period, humans in art, specifically sculptures, were idealized. Men especially were made to look muscular with curly hair. These features made humans look more godly and powerful. They were also positioned in dynamic poses and stances, coupled with expressive faces. The Seated Boxer, for example, has a face of fear, meaning that he is afraid he will not be able to win the fight against his opponent. As well as making humans look idealized, they were also put in vulnerable and natural positions, such as this. It is not often one sees the subject look afraid.

#art history #ap art history #history #ancient greece

[emotional-support-homosexual]

SHE POST ON MY LINTLE TILL I HENGE

#stonehenge #ap art history

[dogmotifz]

#ap art history #<- me jn this class I love this ugly fucking carving so much

[ap-art-history]

Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall

Karnak, Egypt

New Kingdom Egypt (Ancient Near East)

1550 BCE (temple) 1250 BCE (hall)

Cut sandstone and mud brick

Form: Combining the land from all components of this site, it spans more than 200 acres. The sacred area enclosed to honor Amun is 61 acres all by itself, and the hypostyle hall is 54,000 square feet (making it the largest singular room of any religious building in the world to this day) and is filled with 134 columns. The inside of the temple was originally brightly painted

Content: Inside of the temple, the main path through the center slowly raises the deeper inside the building it gets. The columns inside the hall have shallow reliefs carved into them and depict creation stories, as well as symbols of paradise (lotus, palm plants, papyrus). The roof/ceiling would have been decorated with images of stars, the sky, and birds.

Context: In ancient Egypt, it was believed that at the end of agricultural season, the gods and earth were left exhausted. Because of this, it was necessary to help replenish their energy by participating in the Opet festival. The Opet festival lasted for 27 days, starting at the Temple of Amun-Re and the Hypostyle Hall, and ending 1 and a half miles south. This celebration also strengthened the link between a pharaoh and Amun. Accessibility to the deeper parts of the temple became more and more restrictive with each pylon (see image 2), as a means to show the higher social class was closer to god. However, the deepest part of the temple was restricted to priests and the pharaoh exclusively. The temple and hall were a pilgrimage site for over 2,000 years.

Function: While the religious ritual practices at this site serve as its main function, the temples also represented the creation of the world as the Egyptians believed it. It was believed that the world was originally only water, and that the first solid land to emerge from the water was a pyramid-like mound, also known as a benben. The structure of the temples were shaped in this way as well, so when the Nile flooded, it would seem even more like the original mound of creation.

sources:

khan academy

#ap art history #ancient mediterranean #ancient egypt #ritual #power and authority #sacred space #narrative #architecture #relief sculpture #temple of amun re #hypostyle hall

[bigboobhistory]

1. Apollo 11 Stones

Namibia. c. 25,500-25,300 BCE. Charcoal on stone slate. Global Prehistory - Ancient Mediterranean.

- Art work was carried from one place to another - suggesting it held some form of importance. (religious beliefs or practices ?) - Drawn on with ochre and charcoal, not painted. - Found among group of 7 other slabs, all with depictions of animals on them. Species mosty ambiguous though Apollo 11 appears to have Onyx horns - Discovered the same day as the Apollo 11 moon landing in Wonderwerk Cave (South Africa)

Piece is similar to other prehistoric artworks in that the subject was an animalistic and the creature was drawn in strict profile.

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Composite Creature : the piece combines both human and animal forms, which may suggest a being able to transform from human to animal. This is also referred to as Therianthrope

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#ap art history #art history #global prehistory #apah

[the-technicolor-yawn]

just finished the last piece in the 250 feeling emotionally exempt

#ap art history #art history #school #scholar moment #advanced placement #i am going to fail the exam #history #anthropology