Art History (HL)

NerdPantzz · 09-06-2009 12:58pm #1

How're people feeling about the art history exam?
Such a huge course.. Any tips on how to narrow things down, especially in the Irish and European sections??

degausserxo · 09-06-2009 1:09pm

Iron Age, Bronze Age, Newgrange, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.

xOxSinéadxOx · 09-06-2009 1:11pm

SCREWED.

rhapsody! · 09-06-2009 1:14pm

Already a topic on the same page :P
but yeah also dead.

NerdPantzz · 09-06-2009 1:16pm

Its such a pity because ppl who do really well in their practicals can be brought down because the course is so braod!

rhapsody! · 09-06-2009 1:17pm

I personally, hate art history. I have to get a B, and to maintain that B, I'll have to get an A in AH, and I cannot do that. We didn't cover nearly as much as we should have. I think I'm just going to do Picasso, Dali, Bronze Iron and Stone Age.

arthistory · 09-06-2009 1:19pm

absolutely dreading it!!! its just so much..and same day as biology...cruelty!!

NerdPantzz · 09-06-2009 1:21pm

Bronze age was up last year tho I think.. Don't think Iron age was. I like newgrange but its been up the past few years.. My class covered way too much! one topic a week plus an essay each week for two years! :eek:

xOxSinéadxOx · 09-06-2009 1:21pm

NerdPantzz wrote: »

Its such a pity because ppl who do really well in their practicals can be brought down because the course is so braod!

I just think it should be worth a lesser percentage 37.5 really is a lot! it's such a random number as well, it makes me feel uneasy! :pac:

xOxSinéadxOx · 09-06-2009 1:22pm

is la tene the bronze age, or the iron age, or whaaat?

SugoiHito · 09-06-2009 1:25pm

Yeah,im thinking of studying La Tene cos i did for the mock and it came up...but will it in the real thing??

rhapsody! · 09-06-2009 1:26pm

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

is la tene the bronze age, or the iron age, or whaaat?

Iron Age

Used in the Petri Crown I think?

BLARG · 09-06-2009 2:14pm

Know La Tene... did Newgrange come up last year? also know romanesque/gothic architecture. The course is so broad that it's likely most of us will have done different things.

PurpleFistMixer · 09-06-2009 2:33pm

BLARG wrote: »

Know La Tene... did Newgrange come up last year?

Yes. (Unfortunately.

)

rhapsody! · 09-06-2009 2:37pm

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

Yes. (Unfortunately. )

Agreed. Newgrange is by far the easiests. Damn you 2008.

PurpleFistMixer · 09-06-2009 2:41pm

rhapsody! wrote: »

Agreed. Newgrange is by far the easiests. Damn you 2008.

Haha, actually I did mine in 2008, and the Newgrange question, which I was planning on doing, was horrible (for me, we hadn't covered the b) part...).

BLARG · 09-06-2009 2:47pm

They should really do something with the art course. Aka, cut half of it out, and commission someone to make a proper book, and teach art teachers not to be such dry ****es.

batbaby · 09-06-2009 3:51pm

BLARG wrote: »

They should really do something with the art course. Aka, cut half of it out, and commission someone to make a proper book, and teach art teachers not to be such dry ****es.

:pac::pac:I know what you mean....
In the Irish Section, just do pre-christian Ireland. At least one question comes up from it every year....
In European, focus on either Romanesque + Gothic, or Impressionism + Post-Impression. I recommend R+G, it's very repetitive!

That any help??;)

jefreywithonef · 09-06-2009 5:04pm

Jeez I'm pretty screwed for Section III, haven't really done any of those questions since 5th year.

Banking on either Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Monet, Manet, Dali or Picasso to come up on section II.

rhapsody! · 09-06-2009 5:18pm

Section three is alright and can be made up on the spot.
I'm banking on Dali..
Thinking I'm taking a risk?

Reilly616 · 09-06-2009 5:31pm

NerdPantzz wrote: »

How're people feeling about the art history exam?
Such a huge course.. Any tips on how to narrow things down, especially in the Irish and European sections??

Huge course? All I've learned is crosses and manuscripts. I know some artists out of general personal interest anyway, and the third question requires no study.

Casok · 09-06-2009 5:34pm

I have Iron age (Ardagh and tara brooch) georgian architecture and book of kells 4 part one

Leanardo/Michelangelo + Monet/Renoir

Art Gallery ..

Boom .. I hope :P

LivingDeadGirl · 09-06-2009 5:39pm

Thinking of studying High Crosses(yeah I know everyone hates them, but they're due to come up) and la tene for Irish. Then Dali, Monet + Manet and Michelangelo for European.

george. · 09-06-2009 6:11pm

i've learnt iron age, bronze age
uccello & botticelli
art exhibition

im screwed if something from these doesn't come up, i think ill be doing the list question... :eek:

degausserxo · 09-06-2009 8:11pm

Oh, also, Francis Bacon and/or J. B. Yeats.

NerdPantzz · 09-06-2009 8:17pm

Casok wrote: »

I have Iron age (Ardagh and tara brooch) georgian architecture and book of kells 4 part one

Leanardo/Michelangelo + Monet/Renoir

Art Gallery ..

Boom .. I hope :P

ehh.. as far as I knoe The ardagh chalice and tara broach do not come under the iron age! Iron age is pre-christian, as in the broighter color, the petri crown, the loughnshade trumpet... The ardagh chalice and tara broach date a bit later and are considdered metalwork.. I think!! :rolleyes:

shelshel · 09-06-2009 8:44pm

iron Age!!! i hope... but they cud throw sum bronze age/ crosses/ christian metalwork into the iron age essay; theve started doin stuff like that...:eek:

D exhibition question better come up!!! ive a perfect essay... its way eaiser than making up answers for the other questions..:D

rom/gothic arch comes up a lot... its horrrible though...
Renaissance all the way..

Art would be an amazing subject except for the art history.....:pac:

likely_lass · 09-06-2009 9:14pm

dunno if this will help anyone, i was trying to figure out what to study so just picked the questions i liked of each year

i ended up choosing - crosses, 3 bronze age 3 iron age artefacts
giotto & boticelli
& a gallery visit q

SECTION 1

1996 - BRONZE AGE OBJECTS GOLD ACCOMPANYING SHEET
1996 - Christianity effecting art
1996 - Decoration of metalwork shrines

2001 - NEWGRANGE
2001 - PETRIE CROWN
2001 - DEVELOPMENT OF STONE CROSSES
2001 - DURER

2002 - GOLD OBJECTSgold bulla, gorgets dress fasteners

2003 - NEWGRANGE

2004 - Newgrange
2004 - La tene stonework& metalwork

2005 - bronze objects
2005 - development of stone crosses
2005 - delelopment of metalwork

2006 - newgrange

2007 - la tene metalwok

2008 - Newgrange
2008 - Bronze age artefacts

SECTION 2
1996 - GIOTTO
1996 - UCELLO

2001 - BOTTICELLI (birth of Venus)
2001 MICHELANGELO (sisteen chapel)
2003 - 2 Sculptures by Michelangelo
2003 - Botticelli - la primevera
2004 - tribute money mosaccio
2004 - leonardo & Rapael madonna & child
2005 - last judgement leonardo

2006 - GIOTTO
2006 - boticelli
2006 - jan van eyk arnolfini wedding

2007 - rapael school of athens

2008 - ucello

SECTION 2 LIST

FANTASY OR NIGHTMARE 1996
PAINTING OF INTERIOR 1996
ROYALTY OR ARISTOCRACY 1996
1996 AN ALLEGORY OR MYTHOLOGICAL

2001 FEATURING CHIARASCURO
2001 Paintin in london or paris -
2001 Paintin of baptism of christ, the flagellation/ the crowning with thorns
2001 - still life group part of bigger group

2002, 2003 - WATERand/or Reflections
2002 - impressionist landscape
2002- sfumato
2002 - aristocracy

2003 - battle / war
2003 - equestrian

2004 - mythological
2004 chiaroscuro
2004 - meal
2004 - reclining figure
2004 dance/ music
2004 violence
2004 forces of nature

2005 - nativity scene
2005- alterpiece
2005- equestrian
2005 0 people working on land
2005 - still life

2006 - single person
2006 - depicting water
2006 - sculpture by donatello

2007 - musical instrument
2007 renaissance building

2008 equestrian
2008 water

melissavm · 09-06-2009 11:05pm

I'm basically planning on cramming it all in after french tomorrow.

If it makes ye any less stressed, our art teacher gave us a sample A1 answer there about 2 weeks ago and it wasn't that incredible. Just lots of short, to the point sentences, personal opinion, and a few mediocre sketches. I think it's just important not to waffle on and waste time. I always find it hard to get the whole paper complete in the time given.

Are people doing poster design or exhibition or what? What generally gets the highest marks?

carlmango11 · 09-06-2009 11:15pm

I always feel like the book doesnt give enough info on anything.

For example this year, I reckon, it's going to be La Tene. The less stress more success has about 2 pages on it with which I have to write an essay.

And I'm screwed for the European Art, I'm doing Impressionism and Post-Impressionism but it's so vast and there's one small section on each artist in our book, again with which you're expected to write an essay on.

And I always just end up waffling for the Appreciation question.

:(:(

heeereees-jonny · 10-06-2009 8:58am

I'm so screwed for this exam! the Pre's were a complete bastard and I'm def no better off now!
I did go through all the past papers doh and tried to work out what would be coming up... so far I'm thinking:
IRISH-
Iron Age: metalwork and stonework
Early Christian: Manuscript/ stone crosses/ metalwork

EUROPEAN-
Romanesque: Sculpture/ Architecture
Gothic: Sculpture/ Stained Glass
Giotto
Pissano
Ghiberti

APPRECIATION-
Museum/ Gallery visit

Newgrange and Bronze Age came up last year, so I realli doubt they'll appear again...

abelard · 10-06-2009 9:16am

Just make sure you pick a "period" for sections 1 & 2 and stick with it.

For example, for section 1, choose either pre-Christian (bronze/iron age) or Christian (manuscripts/metalwork/high crosses), and for section 2, maybe renaissance, gothic, academic or post-1850

For example, I did mine a few years back and covered;

Section 1 - Christian
Metalwork - Tara Brooch, Ardagh Chalice, Derrynaflan (basic knowledge only), Cross of Cong, Crosier (basic again)
Manuscripts - Cathach, Book of Durrow, Book of Kells
High Crosses - the early examples, and then moved into Scriptural Cross, Muirideach's Cross.

Section 2 - post-1850
Impressionism - Monet (key artist), Manet, Renoir, Cezanne
Cubism - Picasso (key), Bracques
Surrealism - Dali (key), Miro, Magritte
Then filled in the blanks with very basic knowledge of post-impressionism, fauvism, dada in case a "chronological development" question came up.

Section 3 should be covered by preparing a gallery question.

Try to be as flexible as possible when looking at what paintings to cover in the artists under section 2. If the questions relating the the period/artist doesn't suit you, try study paintings that might give you as much freedom as possible under the "a painting of...." style questions.

For example, Picasso's Guernica will obviously suit a question related to cubism, to Picasso or to 20th century art, but can also be a fallback for "a paiting depicting...." war/conflict, people, animals, death, politics, monochrome etc.

mikeglee · 10-06-2009 1:09pm

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

SCREWED.

HEAR HEAR

:( I am dead! I never liked art and don't need it. I was just thinking of writing down really stupid answers and talking about other silly things.

xOxSinéadxOx · 10-06-2009 1:29pm

If I did just la tene for section 1 would I be ok? hmmmm
thinking of doing an impressionst artist, post impressionst artist and leonardo for section 2

how much of a risk is this goys?

carlmango11 · 10-06-2009 2:09pm

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

If I did just la tene for section 1 would I be ok? hmmmm
thinking of doing an impressionst artist, post impressionst artist and leonardo for section 2

how much of a risk is this goys?

On our ExamCraft mock La Tene came up and so far they've been suspiciously accurate with their predictions. I'd say do Le Tene and one other Pre Christian thing, but not Newgrange.

And I'm not sure about Section 2, havn't a clue about European Art. :eek::eek:

NerdPantzz · 10-06-2009 2:25pm

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

If I did just la tene for section 1 would I be ok? hmmmm
thinking of doing an impressionst artist, post impressionst artist and leonardo for section 2

how much of a risk is this goys?

Just one topic for the irish section may b a bit dodgey... If it doesnt come up will u be able to answer on anything else at all?

likely_lass · 10-06-2009 3:18pm

i have art history tomorrow - got up at 8 to study but i just cant get myself down to study, ive been so good up till now but its like i just dont care anyone else feeling like this?

PCPhoto · 10-06-2009 3:23pm

not doing the leaving cert - but feel like that most days...... thats life !!!

especially at the moment.....best thing you can do is just read over some sections - time yourself reading a section (ie. life of expressionists/various art history movements and stuff like that).... then answer some exam papers on it..... actually just do some exam papers - the questions are pretty similar every year.

best of luck with exams

aido179 · 10-06-2009 3:34pm

same...art is my extra subject, as in outside of school so i have a shit load of work to look over tonight and i dunno if it'll win over biology. the fact that i had french this morning didn't help either, I'm just tired of exams

BLARG · 10-06-2009 3:39pm

I really couldn't be bothered for art either. The paper is just so unapproachable... I could revise loads of stuff tonight which could easily not come up...

Sareail · 10-06-2009 4:00pm

I have no idea if this was answered or not because I don't have time to read the whole thread, but wtf is the format for the exam?! My class never got exam papers.. I know its european, irish then appreciation but do you just answer 1 question from all of them?? And Does romanesque/gothic come up every year in european?!

xOxSinéadxOx · 10-06-2009 4:00pm

no I probably wouldnt be able to answer anything else. I hate the irish section so much, I might just vaguely go over something else but I'm really going to concentrate on section 2 and 3, I think I did enough in my practical for a goodish grade anyway

7Steve · 10-06-2009 4:23pm

I have totally given up on this subject. I'm only going to study La Téne (one stone and 2 metal), 4 paintings from Impressionist artists (2 Manet and 2 Monet), and a tiny bit about Impressionism. Appreciation will be easy, you can bluff your way through that thing, it's all waffle (hopefully).

That's all I can really learn between now and 2pm.

I'm screwed

(Oh, no matter what happens, or what comes up, I'm going to use them pantings for the Thematic Q. I just don't care)

I hope I pass...

likely_lass · 10-06-2009 4:41pm

Sareail wrote: »

I have no idea if this was answered or not because I don't have time to read the whole thread, but wtf is the format for the exam?! My class never got exam papers.. I know its european, irish then appreciation but do you just answer 1 question from all of them?? And Does romanesque/gothic come up every year in european?!

3 sections

1-Irish
2 - European
3- appreciation

go to examinations.ie and look at the past ones, bit crazy going into the exam without knowing & timings 50 mins per question

jefreywithonef · 10-06-2009 5:27pm

One of the biggest problems with Art history is not being able to actually see the paintings / work discussed in the book, only the crappy sketches. I only got into art history once I starting using artchive.com as I was able to actually appreciate the paintings. (Have spent a couple of afternoons just looking at all of Dali's work!!)

mikeglee · 10-06-2009 6:29pm

I don't mean to be a kill joy and sound like a waster etc. But I do feel that Art History in secondary is a bit of a joke. In my opinon of course

LivingDeadGirl · 10-06-2009 6:30pm

I like it, I just think the course is out to get you.

flerg · 10-06-2009 6:52pm

For anyone doing higher or lower who is panicking learn the Bronze age (gold jewellery) and Iron Age/ La Tene period, loughnashde trumpet petrie crown broighter collar castlestrange and Turoe stone. And Giotto Di Bondone for higher Impressionism for ordinary......Rem you have 45min per question and include at least 3 drawings in each question too.:)

LivingDeadGirl · 10-06-2009 7:21pm

Anyone know of anywhere online I can find good sample answers for the appreciation section? Or can someone post one up that they did well in? Thanks

phic · 10-06-2009 7:32pm

flerg wrote: »

For anyone doing higher or lower who is panicking learn the Bronze age (gold jewellery) and Iron Age/ La Tene period, loughnashde trumpet petrie crown broighter collar castlestrange and Turoe stone. And Giotto Di Bondone for higher Impressionism for ordinary......Rem you have 45min per question and include at least 3 drawings in each question too.:)

Hmm whys that? just cos of predicitions or do you know something?

flerg · 10-06-2009 7:49pm

Process of elimination and level of predictability looking at past papers. It's always good to know 2 impressionists and background to the movement.

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