Surrealist: Many artists mistakenly think that models need be taken only from outside the psyche.
Conclusion
Models need not be taken only from outside the psyche. (i.e. it's okay to take some models from inside the psyche)
Evidence
If we only used the power of art to preserve and reinforce objects that would exist even without artists (i.e. outside the psyche), that would be an ironic waste.
Evaluate
When we're doing Main Conclusion questions, we read the paragraph expecting that most of the time the Conclusion will appear earlier than the Evidence.
In particular, we look out for the two most common patterns: - the Conclusion appears after a pivot word like "but, yet, however" - the Conclusion is the first sentence
We can tell that the first sentence of this paragraph is the conclusion because it's the Author's Opinion (and the conclusion on Main Conclusion is rebutting someone else's idea about half the time).
Our author is implicitly saying, and then she is disagreeing with that by throwing in the mistakenly adverb.
When an author is disagreeing with "X is Y", we should say to ourselves that the author's conclusion is really "X is not Y".
So here, since our author is disagreeing with , the author's conclusion is .
Why should we believe that it's a mistake to take models only from outside the psyche?
Because ... if artists used the power of art solely to deal with stuff that would exist even without artists (outside the psyche), that would be an ironic waste.
Note: we're not addressing the "Although" claim, since that word indicates the first half of the sentence is a counterpoint, not the author's actual emphasis.
Goal
Once we've found the conclusion, choosing an answer is just looking for the best meaning match. So we want an answer that means: - it is a mistake to take models only from outside the psyche or - it would be appropriate sometimes to take models from within the psyche