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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What image is obviously coupled with Ruben's painting on pages 42 and 43?
2. What do Berger et al. mean by the phrase "holy relic"?
3. What invention eventually disproves the idea of center, and single eye?
4. Which phrase describes Magritte's painting "The Key of Dreams"?
5. What does the author assert about vision?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain how combining a variety of images to present a concept can be more powerful than using a single image.
2. Describe how men and women are different social presences, according to Berger et al.
3. According to Berger et al., how can the story of Adam and Eve explain the shamefulness associated with being naked?
4. Explain how Cubism contradicts the single eye of perspective.
5. Berger et al. explain that there is a certain style of European oil painting that does not put the nakedness of a women as the center display, but rather puts the relationship of the woman and artist on display. What is considered provocative about these images?
6. What do you think is the overall mood of the collection of images in Chapter 2 on pages 38 and 39?
7. What is Berger's explanation for the difference between naked and nude?
8. How is a work of art from the past mystifying to the modern viewer?
9. Describe the combination of images present in Chapter 2 on pages 40 and 41.
10. Describe the differences between the collection of images on pages 36 and 37, and the collection of images on pages 38 and 39.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Woman nudes are a common subject in traditional European oil paintings. Write the following three-part essay to describe the portrayal of women in these paintings.
Part 1 - Describe how female nudes are positioned and situated in paintings that are tailored to the male viewer.
Part 2 - Explain some of the various ways that artists manipulate the depiction of female nudes to shape the viewer's way of seeing.
Part 3 - Contrast the assumed humanism in European oil paintings with the portrayal of women nudes in traditional European oil paintings.
Essay Topic 2
Describe the difference between naked and nude while answering the following questions. What are some traditional definitions of naked and nude? What do Berger et al. propose as the difference between naked and nude? How are nudes really just objectified figures?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the two example self-portraits of Rembrandt and explain how they are used by the authors to demonstrate the struggle and journey of early European oil painters.
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