AD 227 Exam 3 Notes

Exam Details

  • Course: AD 227 Spring 2025
  • Exam: 3 / Final Exam
  • Date and Time: Tuesday, May 6, from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  • Location: Beering 2280 (usual room)
  • Materials Needed: Pen or pencil

Exam Format

  • Structure: Same format as exams 1 and 2
  • Question Types:
    • Multiple-choice questions
    • Image Identification (key works of art): identify by sight the following:
    • Title
    • Artist(s)
    • Approximate date of production
    • Art-historical movement, style or era
    • Technique of production
    • Vocabulary and major artistic movements/eras questions: cumulative from ca. 1400 through ca. 1980s

Key Works of Art by Chapter

Ch. 27: Romanticism, Realism, Photography (Europe and America, 1800 to 1870)
  1. Gustave Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849 [destroyed in 1945]
  2. Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863
  3. Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, Still Life in Studio, daguerreotype, 1837
  4. Timothy O’Sullivan, A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, albumen print, 1863
  5. Eadweard Muybridge, Horse Galloping, calotype print, 1878
Ch. 28: Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism (Europe and America, 1870 to 1900)
  1. Claude Monet, Impression: Sunrise, 1872
  2. Gustave Caillebotte, Paris: A Rainy Day, 1877
  3. Mary Cassatt, The Child’s Bath, 1893
  4. Georges Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1884–1886
  5. Vincent van Gogh, Night Café, 1888
  6. Paul Cézanne, Basket of Apples, ca. 1895
Ch. 29: Modernism in Europe (1900 to 1945)
  1. Henri Matisse, Le Bonheur de Vivre (The Joy of Life), 1905–1906
  2. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, Dresden, 1908
  3. Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907
  4. Georges Braque, The Portuguese, 1911
  5. Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, bronze, 1913
  6. Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, glazed sanitary china with black paint, 1917
  7. Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying, 1915
  8. René Magritte, The Treachery (or Perfidy) of Images, 1928–1929
  9. Piet Mondrian, Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow, 1930
  10. Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, Schröder House, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 1924
Ch. 30: Modernism in the United States and Mexico (1900 to 1945)
  1. Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912
  2. Marsden Hartley, Portrait of a German Officer, 1914
  3. Georgia O’Keeffe, New York, Night, 1929
  4. Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942
  5. Aaron Douglas, From Slavery through Reconstruction, from Aspects of Negro Life, 1934
  6. Diego Rivera, Ancient Mexico, detail of History of Mexico, fresco in the Palacio Nacional, Mexico City, 1929–1935
Ch. 31: Modernism and Postmodernism in Europe and America (1945 to 1980)
  1. Willem de Kooning, Woman I, 1950–1952
  2. Jackson Pollock, Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist), oil, enamel, and aluminum paint on canvas, 1950
  3. Barnett Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis (Sublime Heroic Man), 1950–1951
  4. Donald Judd, Untitled, brass and colored fluorescent Plexiglas on steel brackets, 1969
  5. Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, oil, acrylic, and silk-screen enamel on canvas, 1962
  6. Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #35, gelatin silver print, 1979

Study Tips

  • Review key works and their contexts thoroughly.
  • Familiarize yourself with art terminology and historical movements.
  • Practice identifying images without referring to notes to enhance recall skills.