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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Until approximately what date does the period of traditional oil painting run through?
(a) 2010.
(b) 1817.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1900.

2. After the period of traditional oil paintings, what medium becomes the primary form of visual imagery?
(a) Murals.
(b) Film.
(c) Sculpture.
(d) Photography.

3. What do paintings of children demonstrate about the patron who commissioned the work?
(a) It demonstrates what they own and enjoy in life.
(b) It demonstrates how the patron remains in the upper class of society.
(c) It demonstrates their good political judgment.
(d) It demonstrates that the patron is of good health.

4. What is significant about the images presented on pages 120 and 121?
(a) They contain famous subjects.
(b) They are indicative of the times and how people lived then.
(c) They create a powerful commentary about social media.
(d) They demonstrate the difference between nude and clothed figures.

5. Why is it a significant accomplishment for an artist to paint children at play?
(a) Because most of the image must be recreated from memory and imagination.
(b) Because the image can be captured better with a photograph.
(c) Because patrons rarely allow paintings of their children.
(d) Because the artist must keep the children seated for many hours.

6. What is visually similar about the paintings "Sarah Burge, 1883. Dr Barnardo's Homes" and " Peasant Boy Leaning on Sill"?
(a) They both portray wealthy subjects.
(b) They both contain subjects that are moving.
(c) They both portray elderly subjects.
(d) They are both black and white reproductions.

7. Which statement best describes photography in 1883?
(a) It is very good at capturing subjects in motion.
(b) It is a high-tech visual format.
(c) It increases the number of images an artist can capture.
(d) It is a primitive visual technology still in the developing stages.

8. How is Rembrandt portrayed in his second self-portrait?
(a) As an old man.
(b) As a great king.
(c) As a young hunter.
(d) As a woman.

9. Which word best describes the images on pages 72 and 73?
(a) Reality.
(b) Devout.
(c) Fantasy.
(d) Beastly.

10. Which word best describes the series of portraits displayed in the Knoll Ball Room?
(a) Formal.
(b) Sensual.
(c) Melancholy.
(d) Weary.

11. Which subject is accorded with the highest prestige?
(a) Mythological creatures.
(b) Food.
(c) Animals.
(d) Landscapes.

12. Chapter 6 begins with images from which artist?
(a) William Blake.
(b) Da Vinci.
(c) Warhol.
(d) Rembrandt.

13. What does Nattier's "Mademoiselle de Clermonte" depict?
(a) The social structure that is acceptable and expected of the time.
(b) The injustice against women.
(c) The wealth and power and foreign nations.
(d) The politics of war.

14. Which words best describe the setting of "Demoiselles au bord de la Seine"?
(a) Spontaneous and abstract.
(b) Sensual and exotic.
(c) Dainty and lacy.
(d) Dark and cold.

15. What is the extraordinary significance of works such as" A Family Group" by Nouts?
(a) A patron of such a work is not typically a collector of art.
(b) An artist spends days and weeks of time laboriously putting oil on canvas to record the event.
(c) The subjects are all very wealthy and popular at the time.
(d) The paint itself is a new technology that will last centuries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is most interesting about the two works from Courbet on pages 124 and 125?

2. Which statement could easily be an interpretation of Van Gogh's "a cornfield with birds flying out of it"?

3. What is different about an art collector compared to a collector of other objects?

4. In what way does the ruling class of a period support or promote their own way of seeing?

5. What tends to be the central figure(s) in the images presented in Chapter 4 on pages 66 and 67?

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