PrepTest 120, Section 2, Question 8
The Cultural Revolution of 1966 to 1976, initiated(454 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(14 more words not shown)
- AThe artists who(23 more words not shown)
- BChinese art has(12 more words not shown)
- CThe goals of(19 more words not shown)
- DUntil the development(23 more words not shown)
- EUnlike the art(16 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
This is open-ended, so I don't have one exact statement to predict. I do know we have contrasting versions of realism: the officially approved picture of a perfect society and Scar Art's depiction of the hardships its painters actually encountered.
What we’re looking for
I'll check whether each answer follows from those comparisons, rather than importing a broader history of Chinese painting.
Working the answers
- A
The account doesn't identify Native Soil's leaders or say they reacted against Scar Art's styles and techniques. A shared interest in rural life continues into the new movement, but that's not the specific story A tells.
- BCorrect
Revolutionary Realism served an official political vision, while Scar Art showed the rural suffering that vision excluded. The same label, realism, covers conflicting ideas about which reality artists should represent and why.
- C
We aren't given one common set of goals for realism and told that both movements successfully advanced it. The point is that different purposes produced different approaches. The final criticism of Native Soil also doesn't support this blanket success claim.
- D
We don't have enough history to conclude that rural life had never interested the prevailing realist painters before Scar Art. The account describes particular movements, not that sweeping absence.
- E
Scar Art is explicitly called a new approach to realism. Rejecting the government's version didn't make it nonrealist art.
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