10.17.01
This midterm better be damned easy since she felt compelled to not tell us what was on it, or what to study until one week before the exam.
It is an art history survey class that covers art from the dawn of time through the 1400's, which is a damn big lot of time from which a person is to be expected to remember specific terms and art pieces. This test, of course, only covers the dawn of time through 395AD, or CE (common era) as we know it.
She gifts us with a list of 50+ art images, listing title, artist -- where applicable, location -- also where applicable, and time period (name of period and specific dates of period as well), a list of 25 terms to define, explain the significance of to the history of art, and of which to provide a specific example, and then tells us to have specific questions for the review on Monday, after we finish discussing "Rome: The Empire (27 BCE - 395 BCE)."
I am so not amused, having spent the last three hours typing up the definitions of the terms, and not even trying to validate their existence or find specific examples of what they are. Because I have a whole week to do that, you know!
Yes, perhaps I should have studied prior to this, you say, but I refute that with the fact that I have done the readings, attended class, taken notes, re-read said notes, highlighted things in the notes and in the book, studied the images, considered how precisely I should learn them, whether by specific date, historical artistic/cultural era, generalized date of the said era, or some warped combination thereof, and then sighed in frustration and vexation as to which of the 400+ images I should attempt to commit to memory in preparation for the exam.
Like I said, it better be damn easy after all of this.
I mean, she keeps stressing that this is a survey class.
Which explains why we can cover 10,000 years of art in an hour-and-a-half.
That means easy, right?
