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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 is similar about the images on pages 42 and 43?

2. Which statement is NOT true about viewing an image made in the past?

3. Who is meant to benefit from the focus of a nude painting?

4. Why is a woman composed of two parts of one female identity, according to Berger et al.?

5. Which of the following is an example of how creating a reproduction can change the meaning of a painting?

Short Essay Questions

1. What effect does the inclusion of text have on the images in pages 40 and 41?

2. What is similar in all of the images in Chapter 2 on pages 36 and 37?

3. Describe how men and women are different social presences, according to Berger et al.

4. Describe the combination of images present in Chapter 2 on pages 40 and 41.

5. Explain how the portrayal of women by European oil painters is a contradiction to their own work theory, as explained by the authors.

6. In Chapter 2, pages 42 and 43, how do the women in the images appear to men in the images?

7. Describe how there is a gap between words and sight, as explained in Chapter 1.

8. 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?

9. Explain how the women in the images are viewed by the men in the images on pages 36 and 37.

10. What happens to the meaning of a painting when many reproductions are made?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain how traditional European oil paintings make their subjects appear tangible and desirable, and discuss the affect this has on the culture of the time period.

Essay Topic 2

Compare the qualities of European oil paintings with publicity images. Cover the following questions in your writing. What do both European oil paintings and publicity images depict? How are these subjects depicted in a way that is similar? How do both of these types of images make their subjects appear attainable and desirable?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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