Another AP Art History Cram

Global Prehistory

Ritual - Emphasis on funerary and fertility

Ancient Mediterranean

Idealism - Emphasis on perfection and hierarchy

Early Europe and Colonial Americas

Spirituality - Emphasis on pilgrimage and Christian iconography.

Baroque

Tenebrism / Drama - Emphasis on theatrics

Rococo

Ornament / Frivolity - Emphasis on decorative art for the aristocracy.

Neoclassicism

Rationality / Order - Emphasis on classical ideals.

Romanticism

Sublime / Emotion - Emphasis on feelings

Realism

Everyday / Truth - Emphasis on reality

Impressionism

Light / Fleeting Moment

Post-Impressionism

Structure / Symbolism - Emphasis on Form

Cubism

Fragmentation / Multiperspective

Dada / Surrealism

Irrational / Dream

Abstract Expressionism

Gesture / Emotion - Emphasis on brushstrokes

Pop Art

Mass Culture / Irony

Minimalism / Conceptual Art

Idea / Reduction - Emphasis on Concepts

Indigenous Americas

Ancestral / Cosmology

Africa

Performance / Power

West and Central Asia

Aniconism / Geometry

South, East, and Southeast Asia

Enlightenment / Cycle

The Pacific

Ceremony / Identity - Emphasis on storytelling

Global Contemporary

Hybridity / Identity - Emphasis on Blending cultures