An important visual device in An Allegory with Venus and Cupid is ...

[vicky]

An important visual device in An Allegory with Venus and Cupid is the use of sight lines to establish connections between key elements of the image. Identify examples of this and its effects.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

What foundational definition of humanity does Barbara Kruger's Untitled (I shop therefore I am) subvert?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[kxciann]

Answer to Question 1

Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Cupid and Venus gaze directly into each other's eyes, establishing the central relationship in the image.
2. The sight line between the woman seen in profile in the upper left corner and the man rotated toward her from the upper right corner (and reinforced along the line of his extended arm) links Truth to (Father) Time.
3. Folly's direct sight line to Cupid links the Baby as a younger version of Eros.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: Kruger's poster is a play on Ren Descartes's words, I think therefore I am.

[vicky]

Thank you!

[kxciann]

Happy to help