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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 the visual irony between the images on pages 68 and 69, and the images on pages 70 and 71?
2. What conventions influence traditional European oil painting as it develops?
3. What is the title of all the paintings on pages 70 and 71?
4. Which painting is an example of how oil paintings make objects desirable to touch?
5. Why is it a significant accomplishment for an artist to paint children at play?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to the authors, how is a collector of art different than a collector of other things?
2. How does Courbet's two paintings, reproduced in Chapter 6 on facing pages 124 and 125, titled "Girl in White Stockings" and "Demoiselles au bord de la Seine" illustrate two distinct styles of his work?
3. What is the significance of the images on pages 120 and 121 that depict family and other social groupings of common, ordinary daily life?
4. Explain how an oil painting depicts subjects differently than other art forms, as discussed by the authors.
5. Describe Couture's eighteenth century painting "A Roman Feast", and explain how it plays into the other images on the facing page.
6. What is in the Knoll Ball Room? Describe what it looks like.
7. Describe the images of death in Chapter 4 on pages 68 and 69, and name some of the specific paintings.
8. 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"?
9. Describe how Holbein's work "The Ambassadors" is typical of traditional oil paintings and the manner of presenting the subjects, as explained by the authors.
10. 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.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Explain how there is a gap between words and sight as described by Berger et al. Use Magritte's painting "The Key of Dreams" as an example in your writing.
Essay Topic 3
Family and other social groupings of ordinary daily life are depicted in the six reproductions on facing pages 120 to123. Write an essay to: 1. describe the significance of the paintings, 2. specifically explain their meaning and value to the viewer, and 3. explain their significance and value to the owner.
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