ART HIST 2A03 / CMST 2I03: Visual Literacy Test

The Visual Literacy test is scheduled for next Tuesday (Oct. 2). It will take place in class and the duration will be 30 minutes. As noted in lecture, the test will have only one question with an accompanying image (presented on screen). You will be required to use full sentences in your response. The test will evaluated on the overall quality of your response (how well you demonstrate your understanding of the concepts treated in lecture and the quality of your writing). The test will have a total value of 50 points but your work will be evaluated on the basis of a qualitative grade from A+ - F (rather like the grading of an essay). You will not be graded on a point-by-point basis (ie., you will not receive 50 out of 50 for noting a total of 50 points in your response!).

The test question will relate to one of the following sets of themes addressed in lecture:

1. Differentiating between object, picture and image

2. Defining and understanding a metapicture (What is a metapicture? Using a given example, how does it affect our response to the picture?)

One of the following images will be presented on screen to accompany the question. Please be familiar with these works and consider the points raised in relation to them during lecture:

Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, (c. 1503-06, oil on panel)

Jan van Eyck, Arnolfini Portrait, (1434, oil on panel)

Willem Kalf, Still Life with Drinking Horn of the St. Sebastian Archer's Guild, (c. 1653, oil on canvas)

Diego Velasquez, Las Meninas, (1654, oil on canvas)

Frere Luc, France Bringing Faith to the Hurons, (c. 1670, oil on canvas)