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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 similar about the two paintings by Courbet on pages 124 and 125?
2. What is the purpose of the paired images on pages 126 and 127?
3. Which words best describe the setting of "Demoiselles au bord de la Seine"?
4. What words best describe the gaze of the subjects on their own material goods in a traditional oil painting?
5. What are most traditional oil paintings commissioned to demonstrate to the viewer?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the painting "Europe supported by Africa and America" by William Blake, and propose the message the artist is sending through the work.
2. 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?
3. What is in the Knoll Ball Room? Describe what it looks like.
4. Describe Couture's eighteenth century painting "A Roman Feast", and explain how it plays into the other images on the facing page.
5. How is the meaning of the images in Chapter 6 on pages 120 and 121, that depict daily life, of any significance?
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. 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.
8. In Chapter 6, explain how facing pages 116 and 117 return to Blake's theme of Africa and America supporting Europe.
9. Describe how the wealthy influence the ways of seeing through oil paintings, as explained by Berger et al.
10. Describe the difference in the artist portrayal of a portrait versus a self-portrait.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
What is the meaning and significance of the portraits in the Knoll Ball Room? How does the location of these paintings influence their meaning? What do the portraits convey to the viewer about the subjects?
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