Information and IdeasHardEvidence for a claim about a painter's travels
Information and Ideas practice question
An art historian argues that a landscape painter, usually assumed never to have left his native valley, in fact visited the coast at least once.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the claim?
- A. One of the painter's sketchbooks contains a drawing of a particular headland, seen from an angle possible only from a boat offshore, with a date in his hand.Correct
- B. The painter's landscapes often include rivers.
- C. Other painters of his generation travelled widely.
- D. The painter once wrote that he would like to see the sea.
Answer: A. One of the painter's sketchbooks contains a drawing of a particular headland, seen from an angle possible only from a boat offshore, with a date in his hand.
A dated drawing from a viewpoint only reachable at the coast.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The painter's landscapes often include rivers.
- Rivers are in the valley.
- C. Other painters of his generation travelled widely.
- Other painters are not him.
- D. The painter once wrote that he would like to see the sea.
- A wish is not a visit.
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