Art historian: More than

Answer choices

1. A

   Too Strong (most naturally)7% picked this

   Landscape painting and portraiture are the artistic genres that lend themselves most naturally to the mere reflection of

   While landscape painting and portraiture lend themselves more naturally to the mere reflection of a preexisting external reality than does still-life painting, to say that they lend themselves the best to such reflection goes too far.

   7%
2. B

   Too Strong4% picked this

   The only way in which artists control the composition and subject of a painting is by choosing, modifying, and arranging the objects

   While artists do control the composition and subject of a painting by choosing, modifying, and arranging the objects to be painted, to say that those are the only ways artists control the composition and subject goes too far.

   4%
3. C

   Out of Scope10% picked this

   Nonrepresentational painting does not lend itself as naturally as still-life painting does to the goal

   Nonrepresentational painting is not discussed in the argument.

   10%
4. D

   Correct74% picked this

   In genres of representational painting other than still-life painting, the artist does not always choose, modify, and arrange

   Why this is right

   This reinforces the Causal Difference-Maker identified by "This is because". The fact that still-life painters can choose/arrange/modify the objects to be painted is WHY still-life lends itself more to the painter's self expression than does any other genre of representational painting. There's an implied difference there that all the other genres of representational painting don't have that feature of allowing the painter to choose/arrange/modify the objects to be painted.

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

   74%
5. E

   Contradiction5% picked this

   When painting a portrait, artists rarely attempt to express themselves through the choice, modification, or arrangement of the background elements against which the

   The argument suggests that still-life painting lends itself more naturally to art whose goal is the artist’s self-expression. Since choosing, modifying, and arranging the objects to be painted is typical of still-life painting, this answer opposes the argument.

   5%