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Questions 1 and 3 are based on this passage
Norman Rockwell was the most popular illustrator in the United States during the mid-twentieth century, yet no important artist of his time showed interest in his work. This prompts the question; how good an artist was Rockwell? His technique is an adaptation of standard nineteenth-century verismo (an artistic movement marked by use of common everyday themes), competent but undistinguished. While he had an acute sense of gesture and facial expression, his anatomical competence was limited. In No Swimming (1921), for example, there is a bit of leg visible between the legs of the central figure that belongs to the boy lagging behind, but it is so shapeless that one cannot be considered a sophisticated perversion of expressive purposes as, for example, would the elastic spine in Ingres’s Grande Odalisque. However, Rockwell’s work does exhibit a genius in its fastidiousness about the absolute justness of every expression and its precise positioning of each prop. It is this attention to detail that renders unforgettable his best images, such as the open mouth in the form of an O of the little who has just discovered that there is no Santa Claus.
It can be inferred that the author of the passage would probably agree with which of the following statements about Rockwell’s work?
Rockwell’s work was evaluated fairly by the important artists of the mid-twentieth century.
Rockwell’s work was dismissed by many of his mid-twentieth-century contemporaries because they considered it primarily a product of popular culture rather than high art.
Although Rockwell’s work lacked artistic merit, it is important for what it reveals about mid- twentieth-century culture.
Although Rockwell’s work was rejected by his contemporaries, he is now considered one of the most important artists of the mid-twentieth century.
Although Rockwell’s work demonstrated a lack of certain skills, it does have qualities that make it worthy of appreciation.
Select one answer choice.
