Self-study
Rachel: Though contemporary artists are pleased to be free of the constraints that bound their predecessors, Conclusion this freedom has caused a decline in the quality of art. █████ ███ ███ ██ ████████ ████ ████ ███████ ████████ ██ ███████ ██████████ ██████ ██████████ ███████ ███████████
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Speaker 1 Summary
Rachel concludes that artists’ freedom from the constraints of their predecessors has caused a decline the quality of art. This is because great art requires that artists struggle against external constraints.
Speaker 2 Summary
James concludes that there hasn’t been a decline in the quality of art. People only think there’s been a decline, because people only remember the best artwork of the past, and have not get forgotten the inferior artwork of the present.
Objective
We’re looking for a point of disagreement. The speakers disagree about whether art today is worse than the art of the past. Rachel thinks today’s art is worse. James thinks it’s not worse.
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contemporary art is ██ █████ ███████ ████ ███████ ███
This is a point of disagreement. Rachel thinks contemporary art is worse than the art of the past. James calls that belief a mistake.
b
contemporary artists are █████ ██ ███ ████ ███████████ ██ █████ ████████████
James doesn’t express an opinion about this. He doesn’t discuss constraints or whether the artists of today have the same constraints as artists of the past.
c
great art is ████████ ████ ████ ██ ██████ █████████ ███████ ███████████
James doesn’t express an opinion. He doesn’t discuss requirements for great art or the struggles of artists.
d
inferior art from ████ ████ ██ █████████ █████████
Rachel doesn’t express an opinion. She doesn’t discuss inferior art of the past and whether people remember it.
e
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The speakers share the same opinion about this. Both assess the quality of contemporary art. This suggests they both think that we can correctly assess the quality of modern art.