FNAR Study Guide for Final Exam

Visual Art

The portion of the Final Exam that concentrates on the visual arts ( slides and short answer) will cover works from Impressionism through the Contemporary period. Note that some of the theatre notes on the web site http://waynesweb.ualr.edu also refer to visual art works. Review your notes, look at the works of art that are noted on your lecture handouts and are illustrated in your text book.

You should be able to:

Distinguish the stylistic periods by identifying key characteristics of each style. For example, how would you recognize a Post-Impressionist painting? What is characteristic about a Cubist work or a Dada work? What is an example of an Abstract Expressionist work?

Identify key ideas, themes or concepts associated with works of art from various stylistic periods.

Make connections between visual art, music, theatre and dance.

Identify key artists associated with the stylistic periods, for example:

Van Gogh	Dali	Holzer
Cezanne	Lawrence	Oldenburg
Picasso	Pollock	Kandinsky
Matisse	Lichtenstein	Christo and Jeanne Claude
Kirchner	Gauguin	Close
Seurat	Douglas	Munch
Duchamp	Rothko	Kahlo

The Visual Arts test questions will be worth 20 points. The kinds of test questions may include:

Multiple choice questions that relate to slides.
Multiple choice questions about works of art, artists, or movements, but slides are not shown.
True/False statements.

Integrated Essay (40 points of total exam)

For the essay, you will discuss how the visual arts, music, and theatre/dance evidence similar characteristics in a specific stylistic period, for example, Expressionism. The integrated essay question can be drawn from Impressionism to the present, so review examples in all the arts from Impressionism to the present.

Sample exam questions for each of the arts covered in FNAR 2301 are on the web site: http://waynesweb.ualr.edu .