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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 extraordinary about painting subjects such as children?
2. What is Chapter 6 comprised of?
3. What makes the self-portraits on pages 80 and 81 interesting to the viewer?
4. What is different about an art collector compared to a collector of other objects?
5. After the period of traditional oil paintings, what medium becomes the primary form of visual imagery?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 4, explain what interconnections can be made between the images of death on pages 68 and 69, and the images of food, wine, and the hunt on pages 70 and 71.
2. How is the meaning of the images in Chapter 6 on pages 120 and 121, that depict daily life, of any significance?
3. Describe the mood of the collection of religious iconic images presented in Chapter 4 on pages 66 and 67.
4. Explain how the pairs of paintings and photographs in Chapter 6 on pages 126 and 127 complement each other.
5. According to Berger et al., how do traditional oil paintings perpetuate the wealth and power of the ruling class?
6. How is Ford Madox Brown's nineteenth century painting titled "The Pretty Baa Lambs" slightly humorous against the other images on pages 66 and 67?
7. How are pages 72 and 73, which contain images of mythological characters and fanciful human figures, different than the previous images that are displayed in Chapter 4?
8. 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.
9. According to the authors, how is a collector of art different than a collector of other things?
10. 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"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Explain the psychology of publicity images and modern consumerism according to Berger et al. and compare that to the authors' explanation of the spectator-owner versus the spectator-buyer psychology associated with European oil paintings.
Essay Topic 3
Describe how the reproduction of original paintings changes their meaning and value. Discuss the following questions in your writing. What happens to the value of an original work when numerous reproductions are made? What happens to the meaning of a painting if it is moved to a different location? How does the addition of titles or text affect the meaning of an art work?
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