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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 painting by Ruben is included in pages 42 and 43?
2. What does Berger et al. claim that a woman's presence is to a man?
3. According to the authors, what is a woman's internal presence comprised of?
4. In pages 36 and 37, how is the female figure presented?
5. To what area is the single eye of perspective unique?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe how Berger et al. interpret the image of a nude women gazing in a mirror.
2. What is the purpose of mixing images of foodstuffs with images of females in various stages of undress?
3. Explain how combining a variety of images to present a concept can be more powerful than using a single image.
4. How does the value of the original painting change after it has been reproduced many times?
5. Describe how Magritte's painting "The Key of Dreams" is a commentary on the gap between words and image.
6. Explain how an image is a record of a sight.
7. Describe the combination of images present in Chapter 2 on pages 40 and 41.
8. Explain how the women in the images are viewed by the men in the images on pages 36 and 37.
9. 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?
10. Describe the metaphor of the lighthouse and the single eye of perspective.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay to explain and compare how both traditional oil painting and modern publicity images stimulate consumerism and shape cultural ideals. Complete the following parts to the essay.
Part 1 - Describe how traditional oil painting is the basis for modern consumer culture.
Part 2 - Explain how publicity images carry the same ingredients for consumerism as European oil paintings.
Part 3 - Compare how color photographs are more effective publicity images than black and white photographs, and how this is similar to the techniques of European oil painting.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay to describe how works of art from the past mystify viewers in the present. Answer the following questions in your writing. Where do the viewers see themselves when they observe a work of art from the past? What depictions are easily misinterpreted from historical art works? Do you think that viewers in the present see the same sight as viewers from the past when they look at a work of art from the past? Support your reasoning.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay to describe the word "glamour" according to Berger et al. What is glamour? How does glamour fuel the consumer society? What is considered glamorous and how does this shape culture? How is glamour the modern day substitute for the qualities presented in European oil paintings?
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