PrepTest 44, Section 3, Question 15
Artists have different ways of producing contours and hatching, and analysis of these stylistic features can help to distinguish works by a famous artist both from forgeries and from works genuinely by other artists. Indeed, this analysis has shown that many of the drawings formerly attributed to Michelangelo are actually by the artist Giulio Clovio, Michelangelo's contemporary.
Artists have different ways of producing contours and hatching, and analysis of these stylistic features can help to distinguish works by a famous artist both from forgeries and from works genuinely by other artists. Indeed, this analysis has shown that many of the drawings formerly attributed to Michelangelo are actually by the artist Giulio Clovio, Michelangelo's contemporary.
Artists have different ways of producing contours and hatching, and analysis of these stylistic features can help to distinguish works by a famous artist both from forgeries and from works genuinely by other artists. Indeed, this analysis has shown that many of the drawings formerly attributed to Michelangelo are actually by the artist Giulio Clovio, Michelangelo's contemporary.
Artists have different ways of producing contours and hatching, and analysis of these stylistic features can help to distinguish works by a famous artist both from forgeries and from works genuinely by other artists. Indeed, this analysis has shown that many of the drawings formerly attributed to Michelangelo are actually by the artist Giulio Clovio, Michelangelo's contemporary.
If the statements above are true, then which one of the following must also be true?
Contours and hatching are the main features that distinguish the drawing styles of different artists.
Many of the drawings formerly attributed to Michelangelo are actually forgeries.
No forgery can perfectly duplicate the contour and hatching styles of a famous artist.
The contour and hatching styles used to identify the drawings of Clovio cited can be shown to be features of all Clovio's works.
There is an analyzable difference between Clovio's contour and hatching styles and those of Michelangelo.
Explanations
This isn't an argument, just fun facts about artistic techniques and how differences in those techniques help us distinguish between pieces of art by different artists.
It turns out to be a Must Be True question, so we need an answer choice that's proven by the facts. I'm looking at that relationship between Clovio's work and Michelangelo's. Follow me here.
If contouring and hatching methods differ between artists, and sufficiently to distinguish works of art between artists, then assuming we can use these techniques to distinguish between Clovio and Michelangelo, then their contouring and hatching techniques must be noticeably different.
Let's take a look at the answer choices.
No, this isn't proven. We don't know if contouring and hatching are the main ways to distinguish between artists, just that these techniques provide one way of differentiating between artists.
Nah, this isn't proven either. We don't know what proportion of Michelangelo's works are forgeries.
Nope, we have no proof of this. All we know is that artists have different techniques for this stuff. We were never told if it's possible (or impossible for that matter) to replicate such techniques. In the event one could replicate a master's techniques, it might be very difficult to spot a forgery.
No, once again, the facts don't prove this. All we know is that at least some works attributed to Michelangelo are sufficiently identifiable as works of Clovio from their contouring and hatching techniques.
Finally, yes! This is proven by the facts and is almost spot-on to our prediction. If we can use differences in contouring and hatching to attribute certain works, and if this sort of analysis has reassigned works from Michelangelo to Clovio, then there must be a demonstrable difference between the contouring and hatching techniques used by these two artists.
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