Craft and StructureVery hardTwo views on a painting's authorship
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The portrait is by the master's own hand. The treatment of the sitter's eyes, with a single highlight placed slightly off centre, is his signature and appears in no pupil's work.
Text 2
The eyes are indeed in the master's manner, but infrared imaging shows that the underdrawing beneath the face was changed twice, with the nose redrawn in a hesitant, corrected line. The master drew faces in a single confident pass; his pupils did not.
Which choice best describes how the author of Text 2 uses evidence in relation to Text 1?
- A. Text 2 accepts Text 1's evidence about the eyes but introduces evidence from beneath the surface that points to a pupil.Correct
- B. Text 2 rejects the claim that the eyes are in the master's manner.
- C. Text 2 argues that the master never drew underdrawings.
- D. Text 2 agrees that the master painted the portrait.
Answer: A. Text 2 accepts Text 1's evidence about the eyes but introduces evidence from beneath the surface that points to a pupil.
Surface agrees, underdrawing disagrees.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Text 2 rejects the claim that the eyes are in the master's manner.
- Text 2 concedes the eyes.
- C. Text 2 argues that the master never drew underdrawings.
- Text 2 says the master drew confidently, not that he did not draw.
- D. Text 2 agrees that the master painted the portrait.
- Text 2 points to a pupil.
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