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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. How is a two-dimensional oil painting different from other forms of art?

2. Which work is by Courbet, as shown in Chapter 6 on pages 124 and 125?

3. What covers the Knoll Ball Room?

4. Which word best describes the series of portraits displayed in the Knoll Ball Room?

5. What is similar about the two paintings by Courbet on pages 124 and 125?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to the authors, how is a collector of art different than a collector of other things?

2. 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?

3. 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.

4. 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"?

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

6. 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".

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

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

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. Describe the images of death in Chapter 4 on pages 68 and 69, and name some of the specific paintings.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Write the following three-part essay to explain how individuals have different ways of seeing.

Part 1 - Describe what the authors mean by "ways of seeing."

Part 2 - Describe why individuals all have different ways of seeing.

Part 3 - Give some examples that demonstrate how individuals have different ways of seeing.

Essay Topic 3

Berger et al. propose the metaphor that traditional European oil painting is a wall safe into which the ways of seeing are deposited. Write an essay with the following parts.

Part 1 - Explain this metaphor made by Berger et al.

Part 2 - Compare the metaphor of Berger et al. to the classic metaphor that oil painting is a window unto the world.

Part 3 - Explain your opinion: Do you agree with the metaphor of Berger et al.? Why or why not?

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