Art History Aftermath

zam

Well that was... AWFUL!

cleirigh06

I wrote half page on Irish section
Half page on appreciation
and a good bit on raphael
the paper was horrible

seriousfizz

I knew I was taking a risk in studying one topic for each section... but that was a fairly ****e paper. What happened with that gallery question? :mad:

Thank god Raphael came up!!

fufureida

No newgrange. Shocker.

carop

if ya fail the written do u fail the whole thing?? VERY worried

cleirigh06

carop wrote: »

if ya fail the written do u fail the whole thing?? VERY worried

OMG if this is true then I failed
All I did was Raphael good, and then left
I thought it would be ok :O:O:O

gero77

relax guys if you fail art history you can still pass Im 100% positive about this. Was there no gallery question at all in the appreciation section? wtf??

Hatred

What are ye on about?

That was a really easy paper. I wrote 3 pages on each question. Hopefully an A with that paper.

MonTheBiffy

There was an art gallery one but you had to compare it to a national gallery you visited. Now Im sorry but this is a f**king recession! I live on the west coast, ok I can visit my local gallery for free but am I expected to pay for a bloody bus and admission to a gallery in Dublin?! WTF?!

Oh and I made a complete hash of the Raphael question, waffled on about the Bronze Age and I compared the design of a girls skinpy dress and the French national soccer jersey.

All in all, I vomited blood when I seen that paper.:pac:

CantStandMeNow

Thought it was ok I dont do the gallery question, I did the Banksy one thought it was pretty cool !

Orlaladuck

Newgrange was the boland of art! Really happy I knew everything else though but not so nice for everyone else =(.

Also manged to get Monet in there as well for the landscape ones.

Thank **** for Banksy and all the other lovely graffiti artists out there, I salute them. Gallery question looked like a nightmare.

gero77

MonTheBiffy wrote: »

There was an art gallery one but you had to compare it to a national gallery you visited. Now Im sorry but this is a f**king recession! I live on the west coast, ok I can visit my local gallery for free but am I expected to pay for a bloody bus and admission to a gallery in Dublin?! WTF?!

Oh and I made a complete hash of the Raphael question, waffled on about the Bronze Age and I compared the design of a girls skinpy dress and the French national soccer jersey.

All in all, I vomited blood when I seen that paper.:pac:

that is bull**** sure what if you just did a national gallery as a visit then what are ya supposed to compare it too?!

DL Saint

Awful paper:(
No proper Gallery question,No Newgrange and half a question on Bronze Age:mad:
I wrote a lovely 5 page essay on Romanesque!
An essay on Graffiti full of waffle, 3 pages with big sketches!
And Bullet points on Broighter Collar and Gold Torc!
Worst art history paper ever and I needed to do well because I'm repeating, FML

SquirrelFace

That was a disgusting paper. I just saw everyones face fall in the exam hall.
Our teacher only skimmed iron age and bronze age, it was left up to us whether we wanted to study it or not. So imagine the shock when Newgrange didnt come up. I got a page on it.The gallery question was cockeyed, so i did the banksy one, just rambling on cos i know some of his stuff, no structure to the answe really. The Question with francis bacon was fine, so hopefully thatll give me a bit of a mark.

im Pissed off cos I got a B1 in the mock and that was due to the art history cos my work was A1. Now Im expecting a B3 or a C.
It REALLY needs to be a separate subject. Art History is a way of giving those people who cant draw and picked art cos they thought its easy marks. So really your Art mark has no bearing on how good you are at it. If I wanted to do history, id do it. But I dont.....

dodgystuff

CantStandMeNow wrote: »

Thought it was ok I dont do the gallery question, I did the Banksy one thought it was pretty cool !

Bansky for the win!

I nearly fell off my seat when I saw his name. We never studied him in class but I adore the man and have looked up loads about him in my spare time. Delighted seeing as the gallery question was a dose!

I couldn't think of any small scale gallery in Cork haha

I thought it was a mean paper though. No Newgrange was annoying. I had a feeling it wouldn't come up though seeing as the practical paper was pretty odd and with the predictions made in papers seeming to be slightly askew this year. I did have Bronze/Iron age stuff prepared roughly though so I managed to pull something out of the air for that.

Did the Romanesque question for European, I thought that one was ok.

All in all I was happy enough with how I managed it but it definitely wasn't nice.

MonTheBiffy

Ok the majority of Art students are Goths, Emos and Freaks therefore I have come to this conclusion: They are all gonna be really depreesed because of this paper and start self harming or worse. And its all the SEC's fault. The Basterds.

Lawliet

That was an alright paper, I had a essay on Roscommon arts centre learn so I only had to tag on a bit about the Hugh Lane gallery so that was handy. The Romanesque question was lovely. The Irish question was a let down though, managed to waffle a bit about the broighter collar and and bronze age designed but not a great question.

nijel

worst paper ever :mad: got 5 pages for book of kells, which was waay to specific a "the human form"!? plus 5 for romanesque that was ok. 3 for stupid non movie question on a flat pack .. what the hell. probly will get 0 on dat thought it ment fold away chair

Orlaladuck

MonTheBiffy wrote: »

Ok the majority of Art students are Goths, Emos and Freaks therefore I have come to this conclusion: They are all gonna be really depreesed because of this paper and start self harming or worse. And its all the SEC's fault. The Basterds.

That's bull****. The vast majority of art students are idiots who think it's a doss.

FredBaby!

The appreciation questions were amazing. If I had been able to write my whole paper on the lot of them it would have been great but alas, I couldnt. I mean, Banksy, fashion AND a gallery one!!!! But I can see how some people would have problems with the gallery one. Like how many of schools go to more than one gallery? My school didnt go to any but thankfully I went to loads on my own :cool:

European art-Basically I made a right balls out of that one. Did the Romanesque question but I dont think I had enough knowledge to give a detailed account of a church. It was Waffle City, population: me.

Where were you Newgrange? Not on my paper, you werent!!!! And just when I needed you most...

klose

pure panicked when i read it first, hadta read it a few times to decide what to do fully tho and then was ok

did q1 the pictures one, wrote good stuff on it all though i called it the tara broach instead of the broighter collar haha but the info i rote on it was correct so ill only lose 5 marks there, was banking on newgrange but sure i had a niggling feeling after the boland fiasco it mightnt come up

for european i did the q 15 on mannerism for michelangelo, i did da vinci in more detail and hoped hed come up but kinda half winged michaelangelo, again relevent info

gallery question was tricky for most but thank god we went to the museum in dublin and our local one we were lucky, people really should do these trips as its a guarenteed question, hopefully a high b as i winged some parts but lets hope..:rolleyes:

nijel

MonTheBiffy wrote: »

Ok the majority of Art students are Goths, Emos and Freaks therefore I have come to this conclusion: They are all gonna be really depreesed because of this paper and start self harming or worse. And its all the SEC's fault. The Basterds.

excuse me i and many others in my class dont fit into this sterotype!! what the hell do you have against them anyway. get over it.

nijel

Orlaladuck wrote: »

That's bull****. The vast majority of art students are idiots who think it's a doss.

truth couldnt understand only 2 out of 20 stayed the full time:eek:

gero77

was a tough paper alright just lookin at it online, newgrange delib left out for 3rd year in a row which has never happened before so there'll be alot of complaints about this, although it looks poxy they still kept the usual predictions of either stone age, bronze age or ironage question in early irish n romanesque and gothic for European coming up. the gallery q is a bit ridiculous so they purposely put banksy on which a lot of ppl would recognize and answer without reading the wording properly, it requires quite a comprehensive answer, not impressed at all....

Mescaline

When i first seen no new grange or impressionism or product design i was ****ed. Turned out alright, found ways of doing what i knew.

Did William chambers the casino + hugh lane 3/4 pages

The landscape painting.. Was able to use impressionism monet. 2 pages

And the gallery one turned out sweet cause my mam runs a small scale gallery and i just compared it to imma. bit of waffle but hey.

I couldnt illustrate at all though.. illistrating is a bollux.. Anyone know what its worth ?

nijel

SquirrelFace wrote: »

That was a disgusting paper.
It REALLY needs to be a separate subject. Art History is a way of giving those people who cant draw and picked art cos they thought its easy marks. So really your Art mark has no bearing on how good you are at it. If I wanted to do history, id do it. But I dont.....

ditto!!!

dodgystuff

Mescaline wrote: »

When i first seen no new grange or impressionism or product design i was ****ed. Turned out alright, found ways of doing what i knew.

Did William chambers the casino + hugh lane 3/4 pages

The landscape painting.. Was able to use impressionism monet. 2 pages

And the gallery one turned out sweet cause my mam runs a small scale gallery and i just compared it to imma. bit of waffle but hey.

I couldnt illustrate at all though.. illistrating is a bollux.. Anyone know what its worth ?

They're not worth that much, about 10 marks per question

Orlaladuck

It's worth 10 out of 50 marks on each question so 30 out of 150..20% of the entire art history, **** all overall

Hatred

Mescaline wrote: »

I couldnt illustrate at all though.. illistrating is a bollux.. Anyone know what its worth ?

5 or 10 marks out of 50.

Usually only 10 though.

gero77

the illustrations are always worth 10 marks unless you answer a question where the image is accompanied on the source sheet you receive in the exam in this case they are worth 5 marks.

xfionax

carop wrote: »

if ya fail the written do u fail the whole thing?? VERY worried

Its only 37 and a half percent!:)

nijel

xfionax wrote: »

Its only 37 and a half percent!:)

i would remove the only ...100 marks for still life ... 100 for craft/design 50 for life sketch 150 for the history. yes you can pass without the history but its worth so much more than any of the individual exams.

Mescaline

MonTheBiffy wrote: »

Ok the majority of Art students are Goths, Emos and Freaks therefore I have come to this conclusion: They are all gonna be really depreesed because of this paper and start self harming or worse. And its all the SEC's fault. The Basterds.

Iv come to the conclusion that your a stupid narrow minded little bastard and havent a breeze and just wanted to write a comment you thought was funny.

''That's bull****. The vast majority of art students are idiots who think it's a doss''

Im fairly sure the vast majority of art students are people that enjoy art. people who are artistic.. id say theres the odd person who does art because they think its easy because after a year of it theyd sure find out if they havent the ability then there ****ed.

zam

I made up a gallery for the small gallery question. Hopefully they won't do any research.....

I did **** but I don't really care cos I don't plan on counting art! I would be angry and sad otherwise :P

Orlaladuck

You'd think that, you really would =(. In my school and most other schools I hear about, people do art because they can copy pictures well. When it comes to actually doing original however.. Also most people I know don't even realise history of art exists until they actually get into the classroom. Also two people switched to art this year merely for that reason - one ended up doing ordinary level. It'd be amazing if it was just people with artistic interests but it never is.

xfionax

I hate newgrange now....:(

Thank god for romanesque and bansky!!!!

Lawliet

Mescaline wrote: »

Im fairly sure the vast majority of art students are people that enjoy art. people who are artistic.. id say theres the odd person who does art because they think its easy because after a year of it theyd sure find out if they havent the ability then there ****ed.

Idealistic thinking, I'd say the ratio of dossers to interested students is about 3:1 in my class

whelpy

Rene Magritte you saved me today, but it was still a dire paper

frser32

it was an alright paper...book of kells was fine..raphael straight forward and bansky was interesting....didnt like the look of the gallery question

vicksterchick

Horrible paper! NOTHING that we studied came up!

simbathelion

Can someone let me know, are national museum's only in Dublin, or can Cork, Limerick, and Tralee call their museum's national, cause our teacher never took us to Dublin and I had to make do with our own city museum and gallery, Do you think my answer will be wrong now. Thanks

Mescaline

I suppose, must be different in other schools i guess, my class was very artsy.. but even copying involves ability.. if its not tracing that is. but even if people did pick it in other schools thinking it was easy, they relise they have to put the work in.. something like econmics, geography would be alot easier to pass. i really think theres alot more preperation involved in the art exam over all then any of the others, the other subjects were basically just memory tests and if you new what to learn and read over it enough times you were grand, bar english paper one maths music and art the rest dont really envole any personal ability. So if people were to pick something easy.. theyd be best picking something that anyone can be able for. or what they are able for. Well anyways.. i guess in your school that wasnt the case and.. they were idiots :pac:

loocas

Mescaline wrote: »

Iv come to the conclusion that your a stupid narrow minded little bastard and havent a breeze and just wanted to write a comment you thought was funny.

''That's bull****. The vast majority of art students are idiots who think it's a doss''

Im fairly sure the vast majority of art students are people that enjoy art. people who are artistic.. id say theres the odd person who does art because they think its easy because after a year of it theyd sure find out if they havent the ability then there ****ed.

Reeeeeeeeeaaaaaally not helping your case that Art students aren't whiny tossers :P

Great paper. Loved the first question, although I forgot the actual name of the Bangle.
Second paper just took the multiple choice Q. and got 4 and a bit pages on Manet.
Got 3 papers on the Gallery question, which was just made for me. Could have wrote so much more but there's a horrible lack of time in that test

Hatred

Lawliet wrote: »

Idealistic thinking, I'd say the ratio of dossers to interested students is about 3:1 in my class

I think it depends on if your in a lads school or girls. I'm in an all boys school and theres only 6 in the class, 1 is repeating and 2 are dossers.

Areq

i wrote like 5 pages on raphael' transfiguration 'xD
about 3-4 pages on gallery and wrote 2 pages on lunulae only ... what you guys think ? i feel ambivilent ,.... ........

Orlaladuck

That's pretty much the case but most people don't know how hard it is to get a high grade in it - especially with the way the JC is laid out.
Also I wouldn't necessarily say copying requires ability IMO. I know loads of people who can copying pictures (no tracing, looking and copying) but give them something without pictures and they suddenly go from talented to talentless. You see it loads in life drawing/still lifes. just my thought though.

and just occoured to me..Manet's painting had a cat..damnit.

EDIT "I think it depends on if your in a lads school or girls. I'm in an all boys school and theres only 6 in the class, 1 is repeating and 2 are dossers."
I think that has a lot to do with it too. Out of a class of 17 I'd say..5 of us have a main interest haha.

Areq

Areq wrote: »

i wrote like 5 pages on raphael' transfiguration 'xD
about 3-4 pages on gallery and wrote 2 pages on lunulae only ... what you guys think ? i feel ambivilent ,.... ........

but i made up the small gallery , will i get away with it ?

loocas

Orlaladuck wrote: »

and just occoured to me..Manet's painting had a cat..damnit.

I practically cheated on that one :P Used Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe because of the almost unnoticeable Frog in the corner and bird in the tip top centre.

http://www.dl.ket.org/humanities/connections/class/more/images/dejeuner.jpg

Orlaladuck

loocas wrote: »

I practically cheated on that one :P Used Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe because of the almost unnoticeable Frog in the corner and bird in the tip top centre.

http://www.dl.ket.org/humanities/connections/class/more/images/dejeuner.jpg

..You GENIUS. That's fantastic :L

FredBaby!

Areq wrote: »

but i made up the small gallery , will i get away with it ?

Um...I'm not sure...I think they check. But if the name of your gallery didnt look too suspicious, you might get away with it!

Mescaline

loocas wrote: »

Reeeeeeeeeaaaaaally not helping your case that Art students aren't whiny tossers :P

That wasnt the argument actually
It was that their not goths emos and freaks who are going to slit there wrists now cause newgrange didnt come up

Theres a difference between a whiny tosser and a freak that cuts their wrists dont you think?

And theres nothing wrong with a bit of moaning anywayss.. this site basically runs off people that moan.. moaning is just bascially getting out your opinon and on the internet it cant really annoy anyone cause its there choice to read it :pac: