Collage of different styles of art through history. Posted on Wikimedia Commons by MichaelPhilip

Art History Course and Exam (Effective Fall 2015)

AP Art History Course Content

I. Global Prehistory, 30000 - 500 BCE

II. Ancient Mediterranean, 3500 BCE - 300 CE

III. Early Europe and Colonial Americas, 200 - 1750 CE

IV. Later Europe and Americas, 1750 - 1980 CE

V. Indigenous Americas, 1000 BCE - 1980 CE

VI. Africa, 1100 - 1980 CE

VII. West and Central Asia, 500 BCE - 1980 CE

VIII. South, East, and Southeast Asia, 300 BCE - 1980 CE

IX. The Pacific, 700 - 1980 CE

X. Global Contemporary, 1980 CE - Present

Page from Little Duck's Nest of Bad Words, 1912

Appendix A: List of Required Works

AP Art History 250 Required Images, from Quizlet

Required Works of Art for AP Art History, from Kahn Academy

Sample Questions AP Art History Exam

Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access Policy

An Introduction to 100 Important Paintings with Videos Created by Smart History

• Link to Google Art Project to see the entire collection

The British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images into the Public Domain, Making Them Free to Reuse & Remix

Twitter Page for Women's Art

Paintings That Changed the World:  From Lascaux to Picasso.  Klaus Reichold & Bernhard Graf.  Prestel, 2003.

Close Looking as a Strategy for Arts Integration

The steps for Close Looking Image Analysis, as outlined by the curators of “Imprinted: Illustrated Race,” a 2022 exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum, begin by choosing an image and looking at it for several minutes, letting your mind process all the different elements of the scene before you.

The idea is to let your mind and your imagination have the time to process the multiple dimensions of an image.

Once you have spent the time viewing image, now answer these questions:

• What do you see in the image? What are all the things you remember about the image?

• How is the image constructed? What are its graphic elements, color, texture, design features?

• How does the image make you feel? What is your emotional response to the overall image or its parts?

• What do you think is the message of the image? What is the story the image seeks to tell?

• After viewing the image, do you now see or understand something you had not seen before.