!! ART 2015 - predictions, guesses and discussion

k88

fosterr48 wrote: »

Reading through here, everybody has done so much with Art History and it's actually so terrifying. My teacher didn't teach us any of these Stone Age or Bronze Age stuff or anything about all these Pre-Christian stuff or High Crosses. She didn't teach us any of the movements for European art either..

All she did throughout 5th and 6th year was make us write essays on different artists? So all we've done in total is Picasso, Degas, Seurat, Gauguin, Tony O'Malley, and Jack B. Yeats. She just said to revise those few artists that we've done and we have more than enough.

Any last minute tips for me? Really not sure what to do now....

Don't be scared because there's loads of different sections you can do in art, we don't have to do all of them..It's just most people tend to do Early Art (bronze/iron) and then Renaissance art or the architecture one. For Irish art history if you're panicking, I'd recommend the Bronze/Iron age personally as they're the easiest and most likely to come up!

k88

Peg14 wrote: »

how do you simplify drawing a painting?

I like using different sizes of inky black pens and kinda drawing it roughly to show what you've mentioned..A bit of tone and shadow can make any drawing look better! I'm planning not to spend more than a couple of minutes on each because I'll be very rushed for time.

sushua

Would it be really risky to only learn Van Eycke for european? He's due to come up but if he didn't i'd be screwed

k88

sushua wrote: »

Would it be really risky to only learn Van Eycke for european? He's due to come up but if he didn't i'd be screwed

I'd give Raphael and Piero Della Francesca a quick look over just in case if you've done them

randylonghorn

sushua wrote: »

Would it be really risky to only learn Van Eycke for european? He's due to come up but if he didn't i'd be screwed

I think you've answered your own question, don't you?

Ronnocomloc

Does anyone have predictions for art history ...need to cram and our teacher has done nothing with us

JimLarkin101

My art history teacher covered, chimabue, giotto , massaccio and uccello, da vinci and Michelangelo for the European Section.. She said one of these always comes up! Looking through some exam papers, that doesn't seem to be the case! And no one has predicted these artists for this years exam! What do you suggest I learn tonight?
(we haven'T touched on Architecture so I wouldn't even know how to go about that)
Also she told us two and a half pages of writing and sketches is fine?! People here are saying 7!?
Do you guys add in personal thoughts/interpretations of a piece?
Sorry for my panic , just I really need an A1 in art. My practical went really well- it'd be such a shame to screw it up now!
Maybe someone could post a sample essay ? If you have the time of course.

almond88

Is it easy enough to pass the art history by writing one or two pages for each question? think I have enough points acquired for my course and I just want to pass this but haven't really looked at art history a lot

Peg14

JimLarkin101 wrote: »

My art history teacher covered, chimabue, giotto , massaccio and uccello, da vinci and Michelangelo for the European Section.. She said one of these always comes up! Looking through some exam papers, that doesn't seem to be the case! And no one has predicted these artists for this years exam! What do you suggest I learn tonight?
(we haven'T touched on Architecture so I wouldn't even know how to go about that)
Also she told us two and a half pages of writing and sketches is fine?! People here are saying 7!?
Do you guys add in personal thoughts/interpretations of a piece?
Sorry for my panic , just I really need an A1 in art. My practical went really well- it'd be such a shame to screw it up now!
Maybe someone could post a sample essay ? If you have the time of course.

you do not need seven pages at all! Personally I think 4 will do it, for an A essay. Did that in my mocks and got and A. Ofcourse mocks are marked not the same but definitely you don't need 7 pages, and Da Vinci/ Masaccio are possible of coming up.

k88

JimLarkin101 wrote: »

My art history teacher covered, chimabue, giotto , massaccio and uccello, da vinci and Michelangelo for the European Section.. She said one of these always comes up! Looking through some exam papers, that doesn't seem to be the case! And no one has predicted these artists for this years exam! What do you suggest I learn tonight?
(we haven'T touched on Architecture so I wouldn't even know how to go about that)
Also she told us two and a half pages of writing and sketches is fine?! People here are saying 7!?
Do you guys add in personal thoughts/interpretations of a piece?
Sorry for my panic , just I really need an A1 in art. My practical went really well- it'd be such a shame to screw it up now!
Maybe someone could post a sample essay ? If you have the time of course.

So, to summarise- There's always a renaissance artist on the paper, If one were to study two very well, Who would be the best?

Yikes! I'm predicting Raphael or Piero Della Francesca or Jan Van Eyck but you never know.

JimLarkin101

k88 wrote: »

Yikes! I'm predicting Raphael or Piero Della Francesca or Jan Van Eyck but you never know.

I'm doing Raphael now! Hopefully he will make an appearance! If not maybe the category question might cover me>? What second artist would you recommend with Raphael?

oktplz

Is risky just doing the pre-christian era?

Peg14

oktplz wrote: »

Is risky just doing the pre-christian era?

can't be any worse than just studying the Georgian period! have to wake up at 7 tomorrow and learn all pre-christian stuff I haven't looked at since last ear. Not worth the risk.

Ronnocomloc

Still haven't started work on any art history stuff. Looking for a B of some description. Exams in like 12 hours ahahah. My teachers a sicko at predicting tho and reckons Irish art: stone carvings in newgrange, pre Christian metalworking and manuscripts.
European art: high renaissance Raphael and de vinci, cubism and Picasso. And post impressionism. In case like me anybody is pulling an all nighter to fluke it

Leitrimer97

If i know Newgrange, Bronze Age La tene, Romanesque and Gothic should I be covered???

Peregrine

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