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AP 2-D Art and Design
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6 video lessons
8:02
Topic 1
Elements of Art
Look at three famous pictures. A wave from Japan. A candle-lit room in England. A vase of sunflowers in France. Different countries, different centuries…
7:20
Topic 2
Principles of Design
Look at this painting for three seconds. Where did your eye go first? Almost everyone looks at the same place — the two bright faces in the middle. That was…
8:00
Topic 3
2-D Media, Materials, and Techniques
Look closely. There is no grey ink in this drawing. Every soft shadow is made of separate lines, drawn one beside the other. Where the lines crowd together…
7:26
Topic 4
Investigate: Inquiry and the Artistic Process
Two hundred years ago, a Japanese artist asked himself one question: how does one mountain look, seen from everywhere? The wave is enormous, filling more than…
7:28
Topic 5
Make: Practice, Experimentation, and Revision
Look at this pond. Claude Monet painted it again, and again, and again — about two hundred and fifty pictures of the same water, over thirty years. He was not…
7:33
Topic 6
Present: Communication and the AP Portfolio
You have seen these three works before — but almost certainly not in a museum. You met them the way you are meeting them now: as pictures on a screen. Someone…