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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is different about an art collector compared to a collector of other objects?
(a) An art collector is surrounded by pictures that show him the sights of what he may posses.
(b) Art collectors must actively take part in their collections.
(c) Art collectors are the most wealthy of collectors.
(d) An art collector typically has more social standing than collectors of other objects.

2. All of the following are titles of works that begin Chapter 6, except for which one?
(a) "Pity."
(b) "Europe Supported by Africa and America."
(c) "Unclad woman."
(d) "Mildew Blighting Ears of Corn."

3. What is most interesting about the two works from Courbet on pages 124 and 125?
(a) The works show the difference between nude and naked.
(b) The works illustrate two distinct styles from the artist.
(c) The works create a new meaning when presented together.
(d) The works demonstrate a clarity in the artist's way of seeing.

4. What is the metaphor that Berger et al. use to describe the European oil painting tradition?
(a) The crutch of society.
(b) The metamorphasis of a butterfly.
(c) A wall safe unto which the ways of seeing are deposited.
(d) A window unto the world.

5. According to Berger et al., why does ordinary life have more meaning when recorded on a canvas?
(a) Because it took weeks or months to recreate the image from the artist's point of view,
(b) Because the elite upper classes are willing to pay large sums of money for a painting.
(c) Because it portrays everyday life as an interesting event.
(d) Because artists appreciate these works more than works with other subjects.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which subject is accorded with the highest prestige?

2. What is extraordinary about painting subjects such as children?

3. What is the appearance of the figures in pages 72 to 73?

4. What is genre as a subject?

5. Which words best describe the mood of the paintings on pages 66 and 67?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 6, compare the visual characteristics of the images "Sarah Burge, 1883. Dr Barnardo's Homes", and the oil painting by Bartolome Murillo titled "Peasant Boy Leaning on Sill".

2. What is demonstrated about the visual arts in comparing the photograph of "Sarah Burge, 1883. Dr Barnardo's Homes", and the oil painting "Peasant Boy Leaning on Sill"?

3. Describe the difference in the artist portrayal of a portrait versus a self-portrait.

4. According to Berger et al., how do traditional oil paintings perpetuate the wealth and power of the ruling class?

5. Explain how Rembrandt's two self-portraits, the first at age twenty-eight and the second at age fifty-eight, evolve to include content that is not conventionally found in traditional oil paintings of his time.

6. Describe how Holbein's work "The Ambassadors" is typical of traditional oil paintings and the manner of presenting the subjects, as explained by the authors.

7. Describe the images of death in Chapter 4 on pages 68 and 69, and name some of the specific paintings.

8. What is in the Knoll Ball Room? Describe what it looks like.

9. How does Courbet's two paintings, reproduced in Chapter 6 on facing pages 124 and 125, titled "Girl in White Stockings" and "Demoiselles au bord de la Seine" illustrate two distinct styles of his work?

10. How is the meaning of the images in Chapter 6 on pages 120 and 121, that depict daily life, of any significance?

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