Events & Promotions
|
|
GMAT Club Daily Prep
Thank you for using the timer - this advanced tool can estimate your performance and suggest more practice questions. We have subscribed you to Daily Prep Questions via email.
Customized
for You
Track
Your Progress
Practice
Pays
Not interested in getting valuable practice questions and articles delivered to your email? No problem, unsubscribe here.
Apr 2301:30 AM EDT
-02:30 AM EDT
Struggling with GMAT Verbal as a non-native speaker? Harsh improved his score from 595 to 695 in just 45 days—and scored a 99 %ile in Verbal (V88)! Learn how smart strategy, clarity, and guided prep helped him gain 100 points.
Apr 2212:30 AM EDT
-01:30 AM EDT
At one point, she believed GMAT wasn’t for her. After scoring 595, self-doubt crept in and she questioned her potential. But instead of quitting, she made the right strategic changes. The result? A remarkable comeback to 695. Check out how Saakshi did it.
Apr 2308:00 PM PDT
-09:00 PM PDT
Video explanations + diagnosis of 10 weakest areas + 150+ short videos + study plan!
Apr 2610:00 AM EDT
-11:00 AM EDT
The Target Test Prep course represents a quantum leap forward in GMAT preparation, a radical reinterpretation of the way that students should study. Try before you buy with a 5-day, full-access trial of the course for FREE!
Apr 2711:00 AM EDT
-12:00 PM EDT
Prefer video-based learning? The Target Test Prep OnDemand course is a one-of-a-kind video masterclass featuring 400 hours of lecture-style teaching by Scott Woodbury-Stewart, founder of Target Test Prep and one of the most accomplished GMAT instructors
Apr 2808:00 AM PDT
-11:00 AM PDT
Whether you are just beginning your MBA journey or fine-tuning your path to a 700+ score, GMAT Day is designed to give you a competitive edge.
D
Be sure to select an answer first to save it in the Error Log before revealing the correct answer (OA)!
Difficulty:
45%
(medium)
Question Stats:
70% (02:08) correct
30%
(02:15)
wrong
based on 851
sessions
History
Date
Time
Result
Not Attempted Yet
Art critic: Abstract paintings are nonrepresentational, and so the only measure of their worth is their interplay of color, texture, and form. But for a painting to spur the viewer to political action, instances of social injustice must be not only represented, but also clearly comprehensible as such. Therefore, abstract painting can never be a politically significant art form.
Which one of the following is an assumption that is required by the art critic’s argument?
(A) Abstract painting cannot stimulate people to act.
(B) Unless people view representations of social injustice, their political activity is insignificant.
(C) Only art that prompts people to counter social injustice is significant art.
(D) Paintings that fail to move a viewer to political action cannot be politically significant.
(E) The interplay of color, texture, and form is not a measure of the worth of representational paintings.
Which one of the following is an assumption that is required by the art critic’s argument?
(A) Abstract painting cannot stimulate people to act.
(B) Unless people view representations of social injustice, their political activity is insignificant.
(C) Only art that prompts people to counter social injustice is significant art.
(D) Paintings that fail to move a viewer to political action cannot be politically significant.
(E) The interplay of color, texture, and form is not a measure of the worth of representational paintings.
01 Jan 2022, 12:00
Kudos
Bookmarks
righthand
EXPLANATION FROM Fox LSAT
The logic here is pretty tight, because I don’t personally see how a viewer could possibly “clearly comprehend” an instance of social injustice from a “nonrepresentational” “interplay of color, texture, and form.” That would be like seeing a painting of nothing more than a big green box and going, “Oh, those poor Somali refugees.” Seems unlikely.
But in your first year Legal Writing and Research class, you will learn that in legal writing nothing should be taken for granted. Not even things that seem obvious. This argument does not explicitly state, and therefore it assumes, that a viewer can’t clearly comprehend an instance of social injustice from a nonrepresentational interplay of color, texture, and form. So that’s our first prediction.
We can double-check whether our prediction is actually an assumption required by the argument by negating it. If it’s not true, does the argument fall apart? Let’s see. If we negated my prediction, we’d get, “A viewer can clearly comprehend an instance of social injustice from a nonrepresentational interplay of color, texture, and form.” Well, if that’s true, then why the hell would we conclude that an abstract painting could never be politically significant? Without our predicted assumption, the argument simply makes no sense. Let’s see if it’s listed in the answer choices:
A) Not what we’re looking for.
B) Not what we’re looking for.
C) Not what we’re looking for.
D) Not what we’re looking for.
E) Not what we’re looking for.
Ahhhhhhhh ****. I still think our prediction was good, but there can be multiple assumptions in an argument. Do any of the other answer choices have to be true in order for the conclusion to make sense? Let’s see.
A) If this is false, an abstract painting can stimulate people to act. But it still might not be able to stimulate people to political action, which requires “clear comprehension” etc. So I don’t think this is it.
B) This one is just irrelevant, because it is about the significance of people’s political action rather than the political significance of art. I don’t think so.
C) The argument is not about whether art is “significant,” it’s about whether art is politically significant. This seems irrelevant.
D) Okay, I can make a case for this one. If this answer is not true, then it is possible that a painting that fails to move a viewer to political action can still be politically significant. And if that’s true, then the argument simply makes no sense. This wasn’t the assumption we predicted, but it’s still a necessary assumption because if it’s false, the argument fails. This is a good answer.
E) The argument is not about the “worth” of paintings. It’s specifically about whether abstract painting can be “politically significant.”
Since we can see how D must be true in order for the argument to make sense, and since we can’t say the same about the rest, D is our answer.
General Discussion
28 Sep 2020, 11:48
Kudos
Bookmarks
Which one of the following is an assumption that is required by the art critic’s argument?
(A) Abstract painting cannot stimulate people to act. - Irrelevant
(B) Unless people view representations of social injustice, their political activity is insignificant. - Irrelevant - We aren't concerned with the political activity.
(C) Only art that prompts people to counter social injustice is significant art. - Irrelevant (We are interested in politically significant art)
(D) Paintings that fail to move a viewer to political action cannot be politically significant. - BINGO!!
(E) The interplay of color, texture, and form is not a measure of the worth of representational paintings. - Irrelevant - We aren't bothered about the worth.
(A) Abstract painting cannot stimulate people to act. - Irrelevant
(B) Unless people view representations of social injustice, their political activity is insignificant. - Irrelevant - We aren't concerned with the political activity.
(C) Only art that prompts people to counter social injustice is significant art. - Irrelevant (We are interested in politically significant art)
(D) Paintings that fail to move a viewer to political action cannot be politically significant. - BINGO!!
(E) The interplay of color, texture, and form is not a measure of the worth of representational paintings. - Irrelevant - We aren't bothered about the worth.
