Portfolio Analysis
What should be clearly articulated in each piece within your AP Art & Design Sustained Investigation?
Using as many different mediums as possible within one artwork
Creating exact replicas is necessary for technical improvement
Presenting pieces that are unrelated but aesthetically pleasing
A connection to the central inquiry question
What method might an artist use to integrate their personal experiences with migration into their sustained investigative work?
Relying on universally recognized signs like traffic symbols which may not relate personally.
Sculpting classical busts which generally do not contain narrative elements about migration.
Focusing purely on aesthetic form with no reference to their migration experience.
Mapping out routes taken from homeland to new locations using mixed media collage techniques.
When conveying themes surrounding digital culture, what reason could an artist have for incorporating mixed media that includes circuitry elements into their artwork?
Integrating circuitry can increase interactive potential if it creates electronic functions as part of viewing experience.
Mixed media provides textural variety that can make artworks more visually appealing to viewers.
Circuitry elements symbolically reference technology's role within digital culture being critiqued or explored by the artwork.
Circuitry pieces can be repurposed from old devices highlighting economical use of resources by artists today.
What design principle involves using different sizes, shapes, or colors to draw attention to certain areas of an artwork?
Emphasis
Pattern
Proportion
Rhythm
Which artist is associated with the Pop Art movement known for using imagery from popular culture like advertising, comic books, and mundane cultural objects?
Claude Monet
Vincent van Gogh
Andy Warhol
Jackson Pollock
Which principle of design refers to the distribution of visual weight in an artwork?
Balance
Unity
Contrast
Scale
In what way does postmodern appropriation differ from Cubist collage practices when repurposing existing images?
Cubism uses appropriated images to enhance spatial depth consistent with Impressionism's goals.
Postmodern appropriation critiques originality and authorship, whereas Cubism explored visual fragmentation without that critique.
Postmodern appropriation focuses solely on achieving geometric abstraction like De Stijl movement did.
Both replicate images exactly without altering their context or meaning.

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How might repetition be effectively employed in an artist's sustained investigation to unify disparate elements into a cohesive whole?
Through using entirely dissimilar colors with no regard for harmony.
Through repeating shapes, patterns, or motifs across varied parts of their work.
Through random placement of unrelated forms without clear connections.
Through isolating each component so it stands alone without visual interaction.
In creating photographic work for their Sustained Investigation, how could students exemplify a combination of analog and digital techniques at an advanced level?
Relying entirely on analog photography from capturing images to darkroom processing without incorporating any digital aspects.
Taking photos digitally then simply printing them on photo paper without further manipulation.
Developing film photographs in a darkroom then altering them using digital editing software before final presentation.
Using fully automated digital cameras followed by applying generic filters available on social media platforms for editing.
When an artist chooses to work exclusively with found objects, what concept are they likely exploring in their sustained investigation?
The technical skills required to manipulate traditional art materials.
The meaning inherent in everyday objects and their transformation through art.
A celebration of new technologies in fabricating artistic materials.
An analysis of color theory through controlled experimentation with pigments.