PrepTest 125, Section 3, Question 13
The painter Roy Lichtenstein helped to define pop(429 more words not shown)
The primary purpose of the(5 more words not shown)
- Aexpress curiosity about(3 more words not shown)
- Bclarify the motivation(4 more words not shown)
- Ccontrast two opposing(5 more words not shown)
- Ddescribe the evolution(4 more words not shown)
- Erefute a previous(5 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Why does Lichtenstein borrow comics, and what is he trying to achieve with them? Those are the questions the discussion answers: rebellion against pretension, a return to contemporary life, and a combination of parody with genuine feeling. That gives us the overall purpose.
Working the answers
- A
The writer explains an interpretation rather than merely expressing curiosity or leaving us with unanswered questions about the work.
- BCorrect
The discussion clarifies the impulses behind the paintings and what their comic-book style is meant to accomplish. It shows why viewing them as mere parody is incomplete.
- C
The conventional account of pop art is corrected, but the whole discussion isn't organized as a comparison of two opposing theories about Lichtenstein. Much of it develops the writer's positive explanation.
- D
We don't trace stages of Lichtenstein's career. Changes in abstract expressionism provide background, not an account of his own artistic evolution.
- E
The writer isn't arguing that Lichtenstein has been overrated. The point is that his apparently simple comic imagery accomplishes more than it might first seem.
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