Unit Design

Unit Title: The 19th and 20th Centuries

Course: AP Art History

Unit Length: 10 days

Date Created: 8/7/2015

Learning Objectives: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
Unit Overview
Unit Components
Key Artists/Pieces
The 19th Century
The 19th Century
Self-Portrait
(Le Brun)
The Oath of the
Horatii

Y no hai remedio
(And Theres Nothing
to Be Done) from Los
Desastres de la Guerra
(The Disasters of War)
- plate 15

Liberty Leading the

People
Slave Ship (Slavers
Throwing Overboard
The Dead and
Dying,
Typhoon Coming
On)

Palace of Westminster
(Houses of Parliament)

Central Lobby
Westminster Hall
La Grande Odalisque
George Washington
Monticello w/ Plan
The Oxbow (View
from Mount Holyoke,
Northhampton, Mass.,
after a Thunderstorm)

The Stone Breakers

Olympia
Impression: Sunrise
The Saint-Lazare
Station

The Coiffure
Paris Street, Rainy Day
A Sunday Afternoon
on the Island of
La Grande Jatte

Where Do We Come
From? What Are We?
Where Are We Going?

Mont Sainte-Victoire
The Kiss (Klimt)
The Burghers of
Calais

The Starry Night

The Scream
th

The 20 Century
Goldfish
Les Demoiselles
d'Avignon
The Portuguese
The Kiss (Brancusi)
Self-Portrait as a
Soldier
Memorial Sheet for
Karl Liebknecht

Improvisation 28
(second version)

Carson, Pirie, Scott

and Company
Building (exterior
view, detail, and plan)

Seagram Building
Villa Savoye
(exterior view and
staircase)
Fallingwater
(exterior view, interior
view, and site plan)

House in New
Castle County
(exterior view and
interior view)

Composition with
Red, Blue and Yellow

The Bay
Woman I
Marilyn Diptych
Lipstick (Ascending)
on Caterpillar Tracks
Narcissus Garden
Spiral Jetty

Concepts/Topics/
Unit Vocabulary

The 20th Century

Concepts/Topics/
Unit Vocabulary

19th Century Art in Europe

and North America
Late Rococo, Neoclassicism
and Romanticism Byronic
Heroes
July Monarchy
Phrygian cap

20th Century Modern Art

Fauves

sublime

direct carving

Revivals
English Perpendicular Gothic

Die Brcke (The Bridge)

Style

perpendicular window
hammerbeam roof
odalisque
A New Nation a New
Symbolism
fasces
little mountain
view paintings
pure landscape
Photography A Fertile
Field for Interpretation
caricature
camera obscura & camera lucida

Primitivism
Analytic Cubism
Synthetic Cubism
stenciled lettering

socialist-feminist
lamentation
Der Blaue Reiter
(The Blue Rider)
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Dada
readymade
Surrealism
unexpected juxtapositions
biomorphic

Social Awareness in Art

Pictorialism
291
photomontage
game of perception
santeria

Readings and
Assessments
Chapter 29
pages 930-957
Chapter 29
pages 958-959
and article on Jose
Maria Velasco
Three articles on
Photography
Chapter 30
pages 960-970
pages 971-991
and article on
Mary Cassatt
pages 991-1009
and three articles
on artists
Chapter 31
pages 1016-1036
and five articles
on artists
Chapter 31
pages 1036-1044
and 1055-1073
and six articles on
artists

 The Valley of Mexico

from the Hillside of
Santa Isabel

Nadar Raising
Photography to the
Height of Art
Still Life in Studio
The Horse in
Motion

Fountain
(second version)

Birth of the Liquid

Desires
Object (Le Djeuner
en fourrure)

The Two Fridas

The Steerage
Illustration from
The Results of the
First Five-Year Plan
The Jungle
The Migration of
the
Negro, Panel no. 49
Dream of a Sunday
Afternoon in the
Alameda Park

emulsion
latent image
hypo
daguerreotype

Architecture: Modernism
to Post-Modernism

zoopraxiscope

domino construction
pilotis
curtain walls
ribbon windows

The Avant-Garde
Realism and Beyond
avant-garde
Realism
Impressionist
en plein air
Post-Impressionism
complementary color
divisionism/pointillism/
neo-impressionism

primitive
synthetism

The Chicago School

The International Style

cantilever
anti-form follows function

Abstraction, Pop Art, and

Public Art
De Stijl (The Style)
dynamic equilibrium
universal beauty
Abstract Expressionism
action painting

sensations of nature
repoussoir

Pop Art
silkscreen
The Factory

Vienna Secession

colossal monuments

Expressionist

sculptural installation

Chapter 31
pages 1045-1054
Chapter 32
pages 1104-1106
and two articles
on architecture
Chapter 31
pages 1073-1081
Chapter 32
pages 1082-1093
and 1102-1103
and three articles
on artists
Graphic
Organizers and
Worksheets
Writing
Assessments
Completed
Unit 11 Image
Matrixes
Unit Test
Matrixes with
Images - Unit 12

site-specific earthwork

Learner/Performance Objectives: The student will . . .

1. Define and use unit vocabulary.
2. Identify works of art.
3. Realize how the Enlightenment set the stage for the rapid change and
innovation of the artwork created from the mid-1700s to 1980, existing
in the context of dramatic events.
4. Discover how and why the artists of the 19th and 20th centuries sought to
push the boundaries of how art was defined and created.
5. Observe how artists from the 19th and 20th centuries assumed new roles
in society, and how art and architecture exhibited a diversity of styles,
forming an array of isms.
6. Understand how works of art from the 19th and 20th centuries took on
new roles and functions and were experienced by audiences in new
ways, sometimes even becoming challenging to immediately understand.

Assessments/Evidence
Selected response (e.g., multiple choice, matching, true/false)
- unit tests
Constructed response (e.g., slide identification, fill-in-the-blank,
short answer, label, graphic)
- unit tests
- reading guides
- graphic organizers
Product (e.g., essay, model, project)
- image matrixes
- writing assessment
Process (e.g., observations, discussions)
- observation
- classroom discussions

7. Investigate Neoclassicism as a reflection of Enlightenment values with

roots in the study of Classical antiquity in Rome.
8. Explore the many subjects of Romanticism, from the sublime in nature
to the cruelty of the slave trade and to the complex political climate with
a common interest in emotion and feeling.
9. Evaluate the role played by academic art and architecture in the art
world of the late 19th century.
10. Examine the early experiments that led to the emergence of
photography as a new art form.
11. Analyze the ways in which the movement towards realism in art
reflected the social and political concerns of the 19 th century.
12. Investigate the origins of Impressionism and its unique form and
content.
13. Distinguish between the several manifestations of Post-Impressionism.
14. Recognize the impact of Cubism on abstract art in the early 20 th
century.
15. Examine the different ways that artists in the Modern period responded
directly and indirectly to the violence of war.
16. Investigate how Dada and Surrealism changed the form, content, and
concept of art.
17. Analyze the relationship between function, form, and technology in
early 20th century architecture.
18. Assess how and why Abstract Expressionism transformed painting
after 1940.
19. Investigate the ways in which artists since 1950 have introduced
popular culture into their art.
20. Examine how and why artists since 1950 have engaged with social,
political, cultural, or religious issues.

Unit Resources/Materials:
Textbooks Videos Powerpoint Presentations

- pair share
- oral questioning