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
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
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
Author's perspective ·Native Soil art "trivialized" by trying to please Western observers
Negative outcome for Native Soil art
Passage Style
Single position
Spotlight
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Question Type
Implied
Scar Art emphasized the “day-to-day hardships of rural life.” It portrayed the “bleak realities of modernization.” Let’s look for something depicting hardships of rural life.
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a painting of █ ███████ █████ ██ █████ ████████ ███████████ █ ███████ ████ █████ █████████ █████████
This doesn’t involve a depiction of the hardships of rural life. “Triumph” does not suggest hardship.
We have no evidence Scar Art involved caricature. In addition, (D) doesn’t involve day-to-day hardships of rural life.
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e
a painting of ███ █████████████ ███████ ███████ ████████ ███████ ██ █ ██████ █████ █████
This is too happy; there’s no evidence of Hardship in (E).
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Difficulty
96% of people who answer get this correct
This is a low-difficulty question.
It is significantly easier than other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%128
136
75%144
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.
Passages that highlight a person, issue, or historical event or development. These passages often focus on why that thing is significant, distinctive, or interesting.
