For some years before the outbreak of World War I, a number of painters in different European countries developed works of art that some have described as prophetic: paintings that by challenging viewers' habitual ways of perceiving the world of the present are thus said to anticipate a future world that would be very different. ███
Other People's View ·Belief that pre-WWI paintings were prophetic
"Prophetic" meaning that they asked viewers to change the way they view the world, like these paintings were prophesying the future world to come.
Other People's View ·These painters anticipated social and political changes
Their break with tradition was so fundamental that some critics credited these artists with having anticipated political and social disruptions of WWI. Huh?
Author's Critique ·The painting's aesthetic innovations are what is most important
The author disagrees with the critics. This makes sense. It's just a weird argument that these renowned painters are remembered for... not their art but rather their social / political prophesies.
Delacroix made stylistic changes in response to (not in anticipation of) social changes.
Passage Style
Critique or debate
3.
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Question Type
Implied
The author cited these statements at the end of P3. These statements indicated that they were “primarily concerned with problems of representation and form and with efforts to create a far more ‘real’ reality than the one that was accessible only to the eye.”
a
they had a █████████████ ████████ ██ ████████
Not supported. If anything, it’s anti-supported.
1%
b
they worked actively ██ █████ █████ ██████ ██████
Not supported. If anything, it’s anti-supported.
1%
c
their formal innovations ████ ████████ ███ ██████ ██ ██████
No support for the idea that Picasso and Braque’s statements indicate their innovations were due to chance. In fact, there’s anti-support, because they intentionally focused on problems of artistic representation and form.
3%
d
their work was █ ██████████ ███████ ██ █████████ ██████ ███████
This is a slightly challenging question.
It is significantly easier than other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%125
135
75%146
Analysis
Implied
Implied
Stems asking us to infer an idea implied by the claims in the passage (as opposed to identifying an idea that appears explicitly). Similar to most strongly supported questions in LR.
Critique or debate passages contain multiple points of view on a particular subject. Sometimes the author takes sides and participates in the critique or debate, other times the author merely reports the debate.
