Overview of the 19th Century is one of 9 topics in the Grade 11 Visual Arts CAPS syllabus, covered across 3 lessons on Study Vault. Below are real practice questions from this topic with full worked answers.
Sample practice questions
Easy
1. Romanticism emphasised which of the following above strict academic precision?
Intense emotion, drama and the power of nature
Only mathematical geometry
Only depicting mythological gods
A complete absence of colour
Answer: Intense emotion, drama and the power of nature — Romantic artists emphasised intense emotion, dramatic subject matter, and the power and grandeur of nature, using dynamic composition and colour to convey feeling.
Easy
2. Realist artists were particularly known for depicting which kind of subject matter?
Ordinary, everyday working-class and rural life
Only Greek and Roman mythology
Only royal portraits
Only abstract geometric patterns
Answer: Ordinary, everyday working-class and rural life — Realist artists depicted ordinary, everyday subject matter, particularly working-class and rural life, with unembellished honesty.
Medium
3. Name the earlier, more rule-based art movement that Romanticism developed partly as a reaction against.
Answer: Neoclassicism — Romanticism developed partly as a reaction against the ordered rationalism of the preceding Neoclassical period, favouring emotion and imagination instead.
