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Unit 4 Later Europe and the Americas. The Starry Night. Vincent van Gogh. 1889 ce. Oil on canvas. I choose to re-create The Starry Night because it has been one of my favorite pieces of art, even before enrolling in AP Art History. I love the blue swirls, glowing yellow moon, shining stars, and minuscule brush strokes evident in this piece. I also got to visit the van Gogh exhibit in Charlotte, NC a couple of months ago! I started constructing my re-creation by drawing a black cypress tree onto a blue sheet of construction paper. Then, using dry pasta, I carefully laid out a pattern that mimicked the swirling clouds in the sky.

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Unit 4 Later Europe and the Americas. Spiral Jetty. Great Salt Lake, Utah, U.S. Robert Smithson. 1970 ce. Earthwork: mud, precipitated salt crystals, rocks, and water coil. I choose to re-create Spiral Jetty because it was incredibly fascinating to me. Before taking AP Art History, I was oblivious to the fact that artwork could take place outside of a traditional canvas. Studying this earthwork heightened my curiosity about both nature and the outdoor world. To construct my re-creation, I began with beans I found in my kitchen. I then laid out various beans in a spiral pattern. Although my product wasn't nearly the size of the actual Spiral Jetty, it sure did look neat!

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Unit 5 Indigenous Americas. Maize Cobs. Inka. c.1440–1533 ce. Sheet metal/repoussé, metal alloys. I choose to re-create the Maize Cobs because my friends and I had a running joke the entirety of the year about this work of art. We all thought it was hilarious that the College Board was requiring us to study metal corn cobs! I also admired how realistic the Maize Cobs were. They were life-sized and mimicked the appearance of ripe corn ready to be harvested. To re-create this work of art, I bent pieces of aluminum foil and shaped them into what was supposed to resemble a cob of corn. I used toothpicks to carve into the foil and add texture to create the kernels.

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Unit 8 South, East, and Southeast Asia. Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as the Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. Katsushika Hokusai. 1830–1833 ce. Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper. I choose to re-create this work of art because I have been familiar with it for quite some time. I even have a t-shirt with this wave print that I regularly wear. I love the cool tones in this ukiyo-e print. I also think it's neat that Hokusai moved away from the tradition of making images of courtesans/actors and instead, focused on the daily life of Japanese people. I constructed my re-creation of The Great Wave by using blue yarn to create a wave shape. I enjoyed using yarn because it I could easily manipulate it into the complex wave shape I was attempting to replicate.

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Unit 4 Later Europe and the Americas. Improvisation 28 (second version). Vassily Kandinsky. 1912 ce. Oil on canvas. I choose to re-create this art piece because I was fond of the bright colors and abstract lines present in this painting. The artist strived to have the viewer respond to a painting in a way that one would respond to an abstract musical composition like a concerto, sonata, or symphony. I re-created this oil painting by using sidewalk chalk on the cement in my driveway. The various lines of chalk I drew were thought to resemble the thick, vigorous brushstrokes present in Improvisation 28. I used red, orange, yellow, green, and blue chalk colors with sporadic black lines in my re-creation.