PrepTest 120 - Section 2 - Passage 2 - Question 9

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The Cultural Revolution of 1966 to 1976, initiated by Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong in an attempt to reduce the influence of China's intellectual elite on the country's institutions, has had lasting repercussions on Chinese art. ███

Intro topic · China's Cultural Revolution and its impacts on Chinese art

Describe impacts · of Cultural Revolution on Chinese art

Censorship; art had to be politically focused and conform to Communist Party's ideology

Longer-term impacts · of Cultural Revolution on Chinese art

Artists reacted against the limitations imposed by the Cultural Revolution, leading to a flourishing of artistic movements after the Revolution

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Example of reactionary art · Scar Art emerged in response to Cultural Revolution

Painters trained in the "realist" style by the Communist Party were exiled, witnessed rural poverty, and depicted that poverty more honestly than communist-approved art did

Contrast · Scar Art and Revolutionary Realism

Communist-approved Revolutionary Realism focused on broad and impressive subject matter and portrayed communist society as perfect; Scar Art focused on specific and mundane subject matter and portrayed society's flaws

Later artistic developments · Scar Art declined, gave way to Native Soil movement

Native Soil art celebrated traditional (non-modernized) rural life

Contrast · Scar Art and Native Soil art

Scar Art depicted the damage caused by modernity on rural life; Native Soil art celebrated traditional rural life

Author's perspective · Native Soil art "trivialized" by trying to please Western observers

Negative outcome for Native Soil art

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This is supported by the fact that the Cultural Revolution led to the flourishing of Scar Art and Native Soil.

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This is supported by the fact that Maoist Revolutionary Realism, which was the art endorsed by the Cultural Revolution, was much more limited than Scar Art and Native Soil were because MRR artists could portray only a reality that was “colored and distorted by political ideology.”

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This is supported by the author’s description of Maoist Revolutionary Realism, which involved portrayals that were “colored and distorted by political ideology.”

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This is not supported (and therefore correct), because the author never indicates an opinion about what “generally” is true about restrictive policies compared to more liberal policies. The author never compares the results of the Cultural Revolution on art to the results of liberal policies.

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This is supported by the fact that the Cultural Revolution influenced the rise of Scar Art and Native Soil.

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