Lea: Contemporary art has become big business. Nowadays art has less to do with self-expression than with making money. The work of contemporary artists is utterly bereft of spontaneity and creativity, as a visit to any art gallery demonstrates.
Susan: I disagree. One can still find spontaneous, innovative new artwork in most of the smaller, independent galleries.
Speaker 1 Summary
Lea tells us that art today is more about making money and less about self-expression. She also asserts that the work of artists today doesn’t have any spontaneity or creativity, and that we can see this by going to any art gallery.
Speaker 2 Summary
Susan states that we can still find spontaneous, innovative art today in smaller, independent art galleries.
Objective
We’re looking for a point of disagreement. They disagree about whether there exists artwork today that is spontaneous and creative/innovative. Lea thinks there isn’t. Susan thinks there is.
A
large galleries contain creative artwork
Susan has no opinion. We know she thinks we can find innovative work in most of the smaller, independent galleries. But we don’t know what she thinks about large galleries.
B
most galleries contain some artwork that lacks spontaneity and creativity
Susan has no opinion. We know her opinion about smaller, independent galleries. But we don’t know whether these galleries make up over half of all galleries. So we don’t know what Susan thinks about most galleries.
C
contemporary art has become big business
Susan has no opinion. We don’t know what she thinks about whether art is more about making money or self expression.
D
some smaller art galleries still exhibit creative new artwork
This is a point of disagreement. Lea thinks there isn’t any spontaneous, creative contemporary artwork in any gallery today. Susan thinks we can find this kind of work in most of the smaller, independent galleries.
E
contemporary art, in general, is much less concerned with self-expression than older art is
Susan has no opinion. We don’t know whether she thinks art today is more based on making money or on self expression.
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