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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 What is visual art originally made for?

2. What are images a record of?

3. What does the word 'image' mean in this book?

4. What image is the exception to the images featured on pages 36 and 37?

5. How can a work of art lose its mystification?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is a work of art from the past mystifying to the modern viewer?

2. Describe the metaphor of the lighthouse and the single eye of perspective.

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

4. Describe the differences between the collection of images on pages 36 and 37, and the collection of images on pages 38 and 39.

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

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

7. Describe how Berger et al. interpret the image of a nude women gazing in a mirror.

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

9. Describe how Bronzino's painting of Cupid kissing the lips of Venus shows that nudity is created with a spectator in mind.

10. How does the value of the original painting change after it has been reproduced many times?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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

Write an essay to compare the techniques of traditional oil painting and early photographic techniques. In your writing, cover the following questions. Which techniques are better at exposing details in the subject? Which technique gives more life to a subject? What affect does early photography have on oil painting? Give an example from the text that compares an oil painting to early photography, and describe the obvious differences that appear to the viewer.

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