AP®︎ European History: Topic 7.8 Practice Test
Prepare for your quiz, test, or the AP exam with focused practice questions on Topic 7.8 of AP European History – 19th-Century Culture and Arts.
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Topic 7.8
Question 1 Easy
This question tests the following: KC-3.6.I
Which art movement emphasized intuition and emotion?
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Topic 7.8: 19th-Century Culture and Arts
Thematic Focus: Cultural and Intellectual DevelopmentsCID
The creation and transmission of knowledge, including the relationship between traditional sources of authority and the development of differing world views, had significant political, intellectual, economic, cultural, and social effects on European and world societies.
Learning Objective: Unit 7: Learning Objective J
Explain the continuities and changes in European artistic expression from 1815 to 1914.
Historical Developments: KC-3.6.I
Romanticism broke with Neoclassical forms of artistic representation and with rationalism, placing more emphasis on intuition and emotion.
Historical Developments: KC-3.6.I.A
Romantic artists and composers broke from classical artistic forms to emphasize emotion, nature, individuality, intuition, the supernatural, and national histories in their works.
Historical Developments: KC-3.6.I.B
Romantic writers expressed similar themes while responding to the Industrial Revolution and to various political revolutions.
Historical Developments: KC-3.6.II.D
Realist and materialist themes and attitudes influenced art and literature as painters and writers depicted the lives of ordinary people and drew attention to social problems.
Historical Developments: KC-3.6.III.D
Modern art, including Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Cubism, moved beyond the representational to the subjective, abstract, and expressive and often provoked audiences that believed that art should reflect shared and idealized values, including beauty and patriotism.
Illustrative Examples specific knowledge students should know & demonstrate
- Claude Monet
- Paul Cézanne
- Henri Matisse
- Edgar Degas
- Pablo Picasso
- Vincent Van Gogh
- Francisco Goya
- Caspar David Friedrich
- J. M. W. Turner
- John Constable
- Eugène Delacroix
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Frédéric Chopin
- Richard Wagner
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- William Wordsworth
- Lord Byron
- Percy Shelley
- John Keats
- Mary Shelley
- Victor Hugo
- Honoré de Balzac
- Honoré Daumier
- Charles Dickens
- George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
- Gustave Courbet
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Jean-François Millet
- Leo Tolstoy
- Émile Zola
- Thomas Hardy
