AP Art history test

The Two Fridas

Material: Oil on canvas

Function: Visual expression of emotional pain and inner conflict following her divorce, using dual self-portraits to explore identity, heartbreak, and resilience. (self-portrait)

The Oxbow- Thomas Cole

Material: Oil on canvas

Function: Promote Manifest Destiny

Self Portrait of a Soldier-Kirchner

Material: Oil on canvas

Function: Psychological trauma and anxiety caused by WW1 (impacting his creativity), showing the emotional damage

Law Stele of King Hammurabi

Material: Basalt

Function: to publicly proclaim the king's authority as a divine ruler, standardize laws across his empire, and provide his people with a written code of justice

Anthropomorphic Stele

Material: Sandstone

Function: Gravemarker/ religious burial practices

The Lammasu

Material: gypsum alabaster (stone)

Function: Both religious and political functions guarding the palace of Sargon 2 from evil and chaos

Old Man’s Cloth-Anatsui

Material: Flattened bottle caps (palm wine)

Function: Colonial/trade history and cultural identity

Gold and Jade Crown

Material: Gold and Jade

Function: Shamanistic and burial ceremony (status and wealth)-royal power

The David Vases

Materials: Porcelain / ceramic glaze

Function: Ritual/spiritual offering, status and wealth

Pisupo Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000)

Materials: Cans

Functions: Anti-Colonialist political criticism

The Votive Figures at Eshunna

Materials: gypsum alabaster

Function: Worship/Ritual (serve as a substitute for a worshipper)

Alexander Mosaic

Materials: tesserae

Functions: Showcases Status and Wealth/ floor mosaic

The Oba and his attendants

Material: Brass

Function: Political and Spiritual guidance, religious ceremonies and elaborate rituals

Darkytown Rebellion

Materials: White (cornered) wall, Colorful projection, black paper cutouts

Function: brutal and complex history of African Americans’ racial violence and the persistance of stereotypes

Apollo 11 stones

Material: quartzite rock slabs

Functions: ritual objects, storytelling aides, or teaching tools

Zen garden in Ryoanji Temple

Materials: Big stones, tiny gravel, moss

Function: Meditation, contemplation, and self-reflection

Taj Mahal

Material: White Marble

Function: MAUSOLEUM!!!, religious site, place for love and paradise

King Menakaure and his Queen

Materials: dark greywacke

Functions: tomb object to ensure eternal life and rebirth in the afterlife, housing the spirit or ka of the king

The great zimbabwe

Materials: Stone (no mortar)

Function: Capital of a prosperous kingdom, religious ceremonies, trade, complex civilizations

Stonehenge

Material: Stones grey and blue

Function: burial ground, ceremonial/religious site