CST VISUAL ARTS EXAM (ACTUAL 2025/2026) QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS
Post-Impressionism
-A late style that relies on the Impressionist use of color and
spontaneous brushwork but that employs these elements as
expressive devices
-Rainbow bright color patches
-Wanted art to be more substantial
-Group was split into two: 1) Seurat (dot theory aka pointillism)
& Cezanne (color planes) concentrated on formal, near
scientific design 2) Gaugui, Van Gogh, & Lautrec emphasized
expressing their emotions and sensations through color and
light
-See chart on pg. 113
Expressionism
-Munch
-Portrayed emotions through distorting form and color
-Revival of graphic arts
-Art should express the artist's feelings rather than images of
the real world
-2 groups: Die Brucke- means "bridge", members believed
their work would be a bridge to the future, produced intense
,anguished pictures with harshly distorted forms and clashing
colors (Kirchner, Nolde)
Der Blaue Reiter: means "blue rider", (Kadinsky, Kleep), color
could convey emotion irrespective of content, shape and color
not subject are the expressive factors, pure abstraction
Symbolism
-Discarded the visible world of surface appearances for the
inner world of fantasy
-Forerunner of Surrealism
-Rousseau, Redon, Ryder
Modern Architecture
-Designed structures that have never existed before such as
suspension bridges, grain elevators, train sheds, factories,
warehouses, and high-rise office buildings
-"Form follows function"
-New designs were to express a building's commercial
purpose, without any overlay of historical ornament
-Sullivan (virtually invented the skyscraper)
Modern Art
,-Art concerned itself less with exterior visual reality and more
with interior vision
-Portrayed contemporary life rather than historical events
-Declared all subjects fair game and liberated form (cubism)
from traditional rules and freed color (Fauvism) from
accurately representing an object
-Relentless quest for radical freedom of expression
-Artists stressed private concerns, experiences, and
imagination as the sole sources of art
Fauvism
-Use of color without reference to actual appearance,
exaggerated vibrant color. Used color as a way to express
feelings
-Experimenting with new ways to express their emotional
response to a scene (generally landscapes or seascapes
painted outdoors)
-Clashing colors and bold distortions of form and perspective,
vigorous brushstrokes, flat linear patterns, used the bare
canvas as part of overall design
-Freer, more individual ways of communication emotion
-Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck, Dufy, Rouault, Braque
20th Century Sculpture
, -Brancusi
-Shaved away detail almost to the vanishing point
-Saw reality in terms of a few basic, universal shapes: the egg,
the smooth pebble, and the blade of grass
Cubism
-Broke up forms to recombine them in new ways
-Delivers a multi-faceted fly's eye view of reality
-Analytic Cubism: Analyzed the form of objects by shattering
them into fragments spread out on the canvas. Worked in
nearly a monochrome palette, using only brown, green, and
later gray in order to analyze form without the distraction of
bright colors
-Synthetic Cubism: Employs strong colors and decorative
shapes. Incorporated stenciled lettering and paper scrapes
into paintings
-Picasso, Braque, Gris, Leger
Futurism
-Kinetic Art
-Challenged artists to show "courage, audacity, and revolt"
and to celebrate "a new beauty, the beauty of speed"
-Took place in Italy
-The key was movement.
VERIFIED ANSWERS
Post-Impressionism
-A late style that relies on the Impressionist use of color and
spontaneous brushwork but that employs these elements as
expressive devices
-Rainbow bright color patches
-Wanted art to be more substantial
-Group was split into two: 1) Seurat (dot theory aka pointillism)
& Cezanne (color planes) concentrated on formal, near
scientific design 2) Gaugui, Van Gogh, & Lautrec emphasized
expressing their emotions and sensations through color and
light
-See chart on pg. 113
Expressionism
-Munch
-Portrayed emotions through distorting form and color
-Revival of graphic arts
-Art should express the artist's feelings rather than images of
the real world
-2 groups: Die Brucke- means "bridge", members believed
their work would be a bridge to the future, produced intense
,anguished pictures with harshly distorted forms and clashing
colors (Kirchner, Nolde)
Der Blaue Reiter: means "blue rider", (Kadinsky, Kleep), color
could convey emotion irrespective of content, shape and color
not subject are the expressive factors, pure abstraction
Symbolism
-Discarded the visible world of surface appearances for the
inner world of fantasy
-Forerunner of Surrealism
-Rousseau, Redon, Ryder
Modern Architecture
-Designed structures that have never existed before such as
suspension bridges, grain elevators, train sheds, factories,
warehouses, and high-rise office buildings
-"Form follows function"
-New designs were to express a building's commercial
purpose, without any overlay of historical ornament
-Sullivan (virtually invented the skyscraper)
Modern Art
,-Art concerned itself less with exterior visual reality and more
with interior vision
-Portrayed contemporary life rather than historical events
-Declared all subjects fair game and liberated form (cubism)
from traditional rules and freed color (Fauvism) from
accurately representing an object
-Relentless quest for radical freedom of expression
-Artists stressed private concerns, experiences, and
imagination as the sole sources of art
Fauvism
-Use of color without reference to actual appearance,
exaggerated vibrant color. Used color as a way to express
feelings
-Experimenting with new ways to express their emotional
response to a scene (generally landscapes or seascapes
painted outdoors)
-Clashing colors and bold distortions of form and perspective,
vigorous brushstrokes, flat linear patterns, used the bare
canvas as part of overall design
-Freer, more individual ways of communication emotion
-Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck, Dufy, Rouault, Braque
20th Century Sculpture
, -Brancusi
-Shaved away detail almost to the vanishing point
-Saw reality in terms of a few basic, universal shapes: the egg,
the smooth pebble, and the blade of grass
Cubism
-Broke up forms to recombine them in new ways
-Delivers a multi-faceted fly's eye view of reality
-Analytic Cubism: Analyzed the form of objects by shattering
them into fragments spread out on the canvas. Worked in
nearly a monochrome palette, using only brown, green, and
later gray in order to analyze form without the distraction of
bright colors
-Synthetic Cubism: Employs strong colors and decorative
shapes. Incorporated stenciled lettering and paper scrapes
into paintings
-Picasso, Braque, Gris, Leger
Futurism
-Kinetic Art
-Challenged artists to show "courage, audacity, and revolt"
and to celebrate "a new beauty, the beauty of speed"
-Took place in Italy
-The key was movement.
