Global Contemporary unit test
A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.
Summer Trees
The Crossing
Pisupo Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000)
A Book from the Sky
Rebellious Silence, Women of Allah
Narcissus Garden
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
The Bay
Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People)
Stadia II
Darkytown Rebellion
Horn Players
Short answer 1. Define or explain: The Gates
3 ptsShort answer 2. Define or explain: Preying Mantra
3 ptsShort answer 3. Define or explain: En la Barbería no se Llora
3 ptsShort answer 4. Define or explain: Electronic Superhighway
3 ptsFree response
5 ptsCONTINUITY AND CHANGE (Question 6, 5 points). The work shown was created by Song Su-nam in the late twentieth century CE: a horizontal ink painting on paper in which broad vertical bands and columns of black and gray ink wash — some dense and opaque, some pale and translucent, with bleeding, feathered edges — stand side by side like a screen of dark forms, wholly abstract, marked with a small red seal.
Describe the subject matter of the work shown.
Describe one material or technique used to create the work shown.
Using specific visual or contextual evidence, explain how the work demonstrates continuity with earlier artistic traditions in East Asia.
Using specific visual or contextual evidence, explain how the work demonstrates change from earlier artistic traditions in East Asia.
Using specific visual or contextual evidence, explain how the work might be interpreted as consistent with other examples of Global Contemporary art.