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Smarthistory is a free resource for the study of art history created by art historians Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. Smarthistory is an independent not-for-profit organization and the official partner of the Khan Academy for art history. [1] [2] It is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. [3]
Advanced Placement (AP) Art History (also known as APAH) is an Advanced Placement art history course and exam offered by the College Board in the United States.. AP Art History is designed to allow students to examine major forms of artistic expression relevant to a variety of cultures evident in a wide variety of periods from the present to the past.
Venus de Milo, at the Louvre. Art history is, briefly, the history of art—or the study of a specific type of objects created in the past. [1]Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today, art history examines broader aspects of visual culture, including the various visual and conceptual outcomes ...
There were times I’d be sitting in my college classes frantically scribbling away in my notebook, hand cramping, making sure I had every note from the lecture recorded for when I’d have to ...
Bo Bartlett (born 1955; class of 1980), realist painter [18] Walter Emerson Baum (1884–1956; attended 1905 to 1906), painter, founder of the Baum School of Art and the Allentown Art Museum [19] Cecilia Beaux (1855–1942), impressionist portrait artist [8] Hugh Henry Breckenridge (1870–1937; attended in the 1890s), painter, teacher [8] [20 ...
Salman "Sal" Amin Khan (born October 11, 1976) is an American educator and the founder of Khan Academy, a free online non-profit educational platform with which he has produced over 6,500 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, originally focusing on mathematics and science. [1]
Margaret Brundage, illustrator (Chicago Academy of Fine Arts) Bradshaw Crandell, illustrator and portraitist (attended classes) [5] Edward Gorey, illustrator; Frank Xavier Leyendecker, illustrator; J. C. Leyendecker, illustrator for over 300 Saturday Evening Post covers. Dom Orejudos, erotic artist, ballet dancer, and choreographer
Albert Elsen, assistant professor of art history from 1952 to 1958; Laurence McKinley Gould, second-in-command to Richard E. Byrd on his first landmark expedition to Antarctica; professor of geology; Carleton College President from 1945-1962