Write notes on any three of the following:

This question was not very popular among candidates. Among the few that attempted it, some responded accurately while many others could not post a coherent response and thereby lost obtainable marks. 

The following are some of the points candidates were expected to highlight:

(a)       Realism

•    A style of art that retains the basic impression of visual actuality.
•    A faithful representation of objects as seen by the eye.
•    Depicting objects in a resemblance of their actual appearances.
•    Life-like artistic representation without any form of idealization.
•    The name of a 19th Century art movement in painting.

(b)       Abstraction

•    Non-representational rendering of art forms.
•    Rendering in a way that may not have reference or resemblance to any real object.
•    Simplification or distortion of forms.

(c)       Stylization

•    Distorting or exaggerating the features of forms.
•    Rendering of art forms in a way that little recognizable features maybe deduced as forms are not fully abstracted.

(d)       Illusion

•    Imitation of visual reality created on a flat surface of the picture plane.
•    A situation when features appear real or are convincingly depicted to give a false appearance of reality.

(e)       Imagination

•    The ability to form an idea in the mind, based on previous experience(s).
•    Mental images or pictures.
•    Something experienced in the mind and not a reality.
•    To form a visual image of something in the mind.