Observation

Few of the candidates attempted this question and performed below average. The candidates were expected to answer in the following way:

(a)                    Definition of Pointillism
-           A term/technique in art that is related to drawing and painting.
-           It is an artistic term from the French word Point meaning dot that describes a technique  of neo- impressionism painting.
-           A technique that entails the scientific combination of the primary colours (blue, red and yellow).
-           Building up of pictures by means of small regular dots of unbroken colours that look like mosaic.
-           It is a style which involves the use of dots to create the illusion of form.
-           Pointillism is called divisionism.
-           It is also called chromo-luminarism.
-           It was a reaction against the prevailing movement of impressionists which was based on the subjective responses of individual artists.
-           It was a revolutionary painting technique pioneered by Georges Seurat, Camille Pissaro and Paul Signac in Paris in the mid-1880s/19th Century.
-           A movement that flourished between 19th and 20th centuries.
-           Technique that aims at encouraging the use of brilliant colours that was
adopted by George Seurat and Paul Signac.

(b)                    Artworks produced using pointillism
-           La Grand Jatte.
-           Une Baignade.
-           Sunday afternoon on the island.
-           The Hay Harvest.
-           The banks of the Marne at dawn.
-           Entrance to the Grand Canal at Venice.
-           Couple in the street.
-           Vincent van Gogh’s self-portrait.                                                  

(c)                    Contributions of Paul Cezanne to modern art
-           He developed an ideal naturalistic synthesis.
-           The first artist to consider the appearance of pictorial forms more important than the realistic representation of the subject.
-           Paul Cezanne’s work laid the foundation for modern art such as cubism.
-           Cezanne’s paintings inspired the breakdown of forms into geometric shapes.
-           He and others like Seurat and Gauguin led the invention of a vivid symbolic world of decorative pattern.
-           His works inspired many modern and contemporary master artists.
-           He is known for his search for solution to problems of representation.
-           He is the first artist of his generation to break away from impressionism.
-           He is the father of Modern art.
-           He is considered classical in spirit because of the intellectual process involved in his works.
-           He pioneered the essence of showing natural rather than mere surface
description.