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[Administrator]

Complete Question Explanation

The correct answer choice is (D).

Answer choice (A):

Answer choice (B):

Answer choice (C):

Answer choice (D): This is the correct answer choice.

Answer choice (E):

This explanation is still in progress. Please post any questions below!

[valentina07]

Why is A wrong?

[Adam Tyson]

At the end of the first paragraph, the author tells us this about the muralists, valentina:

all based their work on a common premise: that art should incorporate images and familiar ideas as it commented upon the historic period in which it was created. In the process, they assimilated into their work the customs, myths, geography, and history of the local communities that constitute the basis of Mexican national culture.

That seems to contradict answer A, because these artists DID care about the content of their art. It needed to incorporate those images and ideas and history, etc. Thus, they would not be likely to agree with answerA.

[PresidentLSAT]

The listing of Rivera and co supports the author's assertion that they developed their own distinctive styles. I'm not sure how the techniques they borrowed now becomes part of how they were rediscovering their own identities

[Adam Tyson]

The passage tells us that the muralists " shared a common interest in rediscovering their Mexican national identity," and that Rivera in particular worked in a style that "incorporated elements from pre-Columbian sculpture and the Italian Renaissance fresco into his murals." That suggests that at least some of them - Rivera for sure, maybe others - would agree that those borrowed techniques can be a part of that process of rediscovery. Otherwise, Rivera would have been working against his own interest!

The question isn't asking for something that absolutely must be true, or for something expressly stated in the passage. It's just looking for a statement with which the muralists would likely agree, based on putting together what we learned in the passage. D seems reasonable and has some support from the text, and that makes it stand out from the other answers, all of which have no support at all, and which may even be contradicted by the passage.