Lea: Contemporary art has become

Answer choices

1. A

   No Support Person 21% picked this

   large galleries contain creative

   Susan has no comments at all on large galleries, so we wouldn't be able to derive her agreement or disagreement on a claim about large galleries.

   1%
2. B

   No Support Person 218% picked this

   most galleries contain some artwork that lacks spontaneity

   Neither person ever generalizes about most galleries. However, Person 1 says something is true of any gallery, so technically that would also be true of most galleries. Person 2 meanwhile only talks about most smaller galleries. We have no idea what she thinks about most galleries overall. Even if this answer said "most smaller galleries", it would still be wrong because Susan could easily agree that most smaller galleries contain some lame artwork. She just said "one can still find fresh / creative art in most of these smaller galleries". She never said that "all you'll see is fresh / creative art."

   18%
3. C

   Weak Support Person 28% picked this

   contemporary art has become big

   As we analyzed before, Susan never talks about contemporary art overall, whether it's become big business or not. In order to pick this, we'd have to derive from Susan's paragraph that she believes "contemporary art hasn't become big business". The idea that one can still find some fresh / creative contemporary art at most small galleries is not strong support for the claim that "contemporary art hasn't become big business".

   8%
4. D

   Correct63% picked this

   some smaller art galleries still exhibit creative

   Why this is right

   Susan would agree to this, because she thinks that most smaller indie galleries exhibit innovative (creative) new artwork. Lea would disagree to this, because she doesn't think that new artwork is creative. She said that the work of contemporary artists (i.e. new artwork) is utterly bereft of creativity, as one can see by visiting any gallery. So she is saying that "at any gallery you visit (including all smaller art galleries), the new artwork will be utterly devoid of creativity".

   Skill tested: Agree/Disagree · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   63%
5. E

   No Support Person 29% picked this

   contemporary art, in general, is much less concerned with self-expression than

   Susan never talks about contemporary art in general. She just says that in general at smaller galleries you can find some fresh / creative contemporary art. She certainly never comments on whether contemporary art, in general, has shifted in terms of its concerns with self-expression.

   9%