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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 do Berger et al. mean by the phrase "holy relic"?
2. How does the painter, Durer, create what he believes is the perfect nude?
3. What is unique about the Cubist images in Chapter 2 on pages 38 and 39?
4. What would be a surprising image to display on pages 42 and 43?
5. In Chapter 2, what is the most stark contrast between the images on the first set of facing pages (36 and 37) and the images on the second set of facing pages (38 and 39)?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe how Bronzino's painting of Cupid kissing the lips of Venus shows that nudity is created with a spectator in mind.
2. Describe how Magritte's painting "The Key of Dreams" is a commentary on the gap between words and image.
3. Describe the general mood of the collection of images on pages 42 and 43.
4. What is similar in all of the images in Chapter 2 on pages 36 and 37?
5. What happens to the meaning of a painting when many reproductions are made?
6. How does the value of the original painting change after it has been reproduced many times?
7. In Chapter 2, pages 42 and 43, how do the women in the images appear to men in the images?
8. Explain how the commission by Frans Hals could easily be misunderstood by the modern viewer.
9. According to Berger et al., how can the story of Adam and Eve explain the shamefulness associated with being naked?
10. Describe how the single eye of perspective changes with the invention of the camera.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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