WorksheetsSymbolism 2
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
What was the main goal of the Symbolism art movement?
To promote naturalism and realism in art
To represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images
To create art without any symbolic meaning
To focus on abstract expressionism
Which literary work marked the origin of the Symbolist style?
Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire
The works of Edgar Allan Poe
Paul Verlaine's novels
Stéphane Mallarmé's poems
Who articulated the Symbolist aesthetic in the 1880s?
Charles Baudelaire
Stéphane Mallarmé
Jean Moréas
Paul Verlaine
From which language is the term 'symbol' derived?
Latin
Greek
German
French
What was symbolism primarily a reaction against?
Surrealism and impressionism
Naturalism and realism
Romanticism and classicism
Minimalism and abstract art
When was the Symbolist Manifesto published?
25 December 1895
10 July 1875
1 January 1900
18 September 1886
Who were named as the three leading poets of the Symbolist movement in the Symbolist Manifesto?
Joris-Karl Huysmans, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine
Arthur Rimbaud, François Coppée, Théophile Gautier
Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine
Jean Moréas, Joséphin Péladan, Théophile Gautier
Who coined the term 'symbolist' to distinguish the Symbolists from the related Decadents of literature and art?
Stéphane Mallarmé
Edgar Allan Poe
Jean Moréas
Paul Verlaine
What was Symbolism primarily a reaction against?
Parnassianism
Decadence
Naturalism
Realism
Which writer began as a naturalist before becoming a symbolist due to increasing interest in religion and spirituality?
Théophile Gautier
François Coppée
Jean Moréas
Joris-Karl Huysmans
