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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 primarily constitutes a landscape painting as traditional oil techniques are developed?

2. In what way does the ruling class of a period support or promote their own way of seeing?

3. What types of images are paired together on pages 126 and 127?

4. All of the following are included in the images featured on pages 70 to 71, except for which ones?

5. According to Berger et al., why does ordinary life have more meaning when recorded on a canvas?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Couture's eighteenth century painting "A Roman Feast", and explain how it plays into the other images on the facing page.

2. In Chapter 6, compare the visual characteristics of the images "Sarah Burge, 1883. Dr Barnardo's Homes", and the oil painting by Bartolome Murillo titled "Peasant Boy Leaning on Sill".

3. According to Berger et al., how do traditional oil paintings perpetuate the wealth and power of the ruling class?

4. Chapter 5 begins with an oil painting showing several items contemporaneous with the Dutch school in 1665. Describe the painting and the objects it depicts.

5. In Chapter 6, explain how facing pages 116 and 117 return to Blake's theme of Africa and America supporting Europe.

6. Explain how the pairs of paintings and photographs in Chapter 6 on pages 126 and 127 complement each other.

7. Describe the difference in the artist portrayal of a portrait versus a self-portrait.

8. What is in the Knoll Ball Room? Describe what it looks like.

9. What is the significance of the images on pages 120 and 121 that depict family and other social groupings of common, ordinary daily life?

10. Explain how an oil painting depicts subjects differently than other art forms, as discussed by the authors.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Write a three-part essay to explain the ideas presented on the differences between men and women.

Part 1 - Describe the authors' opinions on the difference between how a man and woman are positioned in society, and discuss why.

Part 2 - Explain the difference between how a man views himself and how a woman must view herself.

Part 3 - Explain Berger et al.'s idea on how a woman must see herself as a sight.

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