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Complete Question Explanation
(See the complete passage discussion here: lsat/viewtopic.php?t=13357)
The correct answer choice is (D)
This question asks why the author mentions the collage artist in the second paragraph. This was presented as an example of an African American artist whose work was the sort of literal representation that Gilliam found too straightforward; Gilliam was searching for a more artistic expressive form.
Answer choice (A): The collage does not exemplify the style of the Washington Color school, so this cannot be the reason that the author mentions it.
Answer choice (B): The collage mentioned does not underscore the cause of the animosity between various schools of artists, but is instead provided as an example of the work that Gilliam found too literal.
Answer choice (C): The author does mention that art such as the referenced collage was popular with the public, but this example was not presented to establish this fact—it was presented to exemplify the sort of work that Gilliam was reacting to in creating his works.
Answer choice (D): This is the correct answer choice. As discussed above, the collage mentioned by the author was presented to exemplify the type of art that was too literal, too straightforward, to evoke the complexity of human experience.
Answer choice (E): This is an Opposite Answer of sorts; most of the other African American artists of the time were interested in political themes, but Gilliam’s perspective, rare among African American artists of the time, was that he needed to find an artistic form that could better express the complex human experience than the literal art popular at the time.
(See the complete passage discussion here: lsat/viewtopic.php?t=13357)
The correct answer choice is (D)
This question asks why the author mentions the collage artist in the second paragraph. This was presented as an example of an African American artist whose work was the sort of literal representation that Gilliam found too straightforward; Gilliam was searching for a more artistic expressive form.
Answer choice (A): The collage does not exemplify the style of the Washington Color school, so this cannot be the reason that the author mentions it.
Answer choice (B): The collage mentioned does not underscore the cause of the animosity between various schools of artists, but is instead provided as an example of the work that Gilliam found too literal.
Answer choice (C): The author does mention that art such as the referenced collage was popular with the public, but this example was not presented to establish this fact—it was presented to exemplify the sort of work that Gilliam was reacting to in creating his works.
Answer choice (D): This is the correct answer choice. As discussed above, the collage mentioned by the author was presented to exemplify the type of art that was too literal, too straightforward, to evoke the complexity of human experience.
Answer choice (E): This is an Opposite Answer of sorts; most of the other African American artists of the time were interested in political themes, but Gilliam’s perspective, rare among African American artists of the time, was that he needed to find an artistic form that could better express the complex human experience than the literal art popular at the time.
) wary of the overall comparison between the popularity of representational and abstract art forms. We don't have any way of telling which art form was MORE appealing to the general public, and even though the work of Gilliam's contemporary (who I think may be Romare Bearden, who interestingly enough has his own LSAT RC passage from October 2001) was appealing to the general public, abstract art as a whole could easily be more appealing in general, we really have no way of proving that.