PrepTest 111, Section 2, Question 8
The paintings of Romare Bearden (1914–1988) represent a(439 more words not shown)
According to the passage, Bearden's(4 more words not shown)
- Aa commitment to(5 more words not shown)
- Ba desire to(9 more words not shown)
- Cthe ability of(6 more words not shown)
- Dthe importance of(10 more words not shown)
- Ethe need to(12 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
This asks about Bearden's techniques, so let's return to the discussion of his craft. We learned that he combined painting and collage and understood the resources and limits of his medium. What does that discussion show his techniques accomplishing? We'll match the idea, even if an answer uses different words.
Working the answers
- A
Some paintings show suffering, but this isn't the general lesson drawn from his innovative techniques. The technical discussion concerns what an artist can do with ordinary subjects.
- B
Understanding the craft doesn't establish a desire to instruct other painters. We aren't told that teaching them was his purpose.
- CCorrect
Here is the water-bottle idea from our read-through: even something ordinary can become striking through the way an artist presents it. The actual text says “commonplace subjects” undergo a “metamorphosis.” Commonplace means ordinary; metamorphosis means transformation. C restates that idea plainly.
- D
The described combination is painting and collage. Photography appears later as an approach whose simplifications Bearden moves beyond, not as a source of clarity he needs to combine with painting.
- E
This reverses the final comparison. Other painters project Harlem's prose; Bearden releases its poetry. We aren't told that artists should favor the more ordinary, matter-of-fact elements over the poetic ones.
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