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
Author’s perspective
Implied
It’s difficult to predict the correct answer just based on the question stem. So let’s use process of elimination. The correct answer will one the author is LEAST likely to agree with.
a
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This is supported by the fact that the Cultural Revolution led to the flourishing of Scar Art and Native Soil.
b
The art that ███ ████████ ██ ███ ████████ ███ ████ ██████ ███ ███████████ ████ ███████ ███ █████ ███ ████████ ███████████
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.”
c
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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.”
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.
e
Its impact has █████████ ██ ██ ████ ██ ███ ███████ ███ █████ █████ █████ ██ ██████
This is supported by the fact that the Cultural Revolution influenced the rise of Scar Art and Native Soil.
Difficulty
77% of people who answer get this correct
This is a moderately difficult question.
It is similar in difficulty to other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%143
152
75%160
Analysis
Author’s perspective
Implied
Art
Single position
Spotlight
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
1%
154
b
12%
157
c
6%
156
d
77%
164
e
4%
157
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