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iikarthik: Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts; Posts: 57; Joined: Sun Jul 06, 2008 10:52 am; Thanked: 1 times; GMAT Score:640

by iikarthik » Sun May 17, 2009 6:09 pm

Museum visitor: This painting is definitely a Monet. The brush strokes, shading, and subject matter are all characteristic of Monet. The visitor presupposes which of the following:

A) Monet was a great artist.

B) Painting is the only type of art that allows a determination of the artist from certain characteristics.

C) Nothing besides brush strokes, shading, and subject matter allows one to identify Monet as the artist of a painting.

D) It takes little skill to identify a Monet painting.

E) No other artist used the brush strokes, shading, and subject matter observed in the painting.
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OA is E[/spoiler]

Pls explain

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Minheequang: Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts; Posts: 19; Joined: Tue May 12, 2009 11:55 pm

Re: Museum visitor

by Minheequang » Sun May 17, 2009 6:46 pm

IMO E. Using negating technique for assumption-type question

Museum visitor: This painting is definitely a Monet. The brush strokes, shading, and subject matter are all characteristic of Monet. The visitor presupposes which of the following:

A) Monet was a great artist --> out of scope

B) Painting is the only type of art that allows a determination of the artist from certain characteristics -->too general

C) Nothing besides brush strokes, shading, and subject matter allows one to identify Monet as the artist of a painting -->negating: there are other things for one to indentify Monet as an painting artist, it does not weaken the argument because it does not refute that those 3 characteristics does not belong to Monet
D) It takes little skill to identify a Monet painting -->irrelevant

E) No other artist used the brush strokes, shading, and subject matter observed in the painting -->
negating: other artists also use those 3 characteristics in their painting. It does weaken that because all painting artists have those 3 characteristics in paintings, any painting artist can be the creator of the painting, not only Monet[/b]

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Musicolo: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 116; Joined: Sun Feb 01, 2009 10:56 am

by Musicolo » Mon May 18, 2009 12:15 am

they all seem too general or missing the point, all but E. this one is kind of obvious.

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aj5105: Legendary Member; Posts: 1169; Joined: Sun Jul 06, 2008 2:34 amFollowed by: 1 member; Thanked: 25 times

by aj5105 » Mon May 18, 2009 9:44 am

(E)

Good explanation by Minheequang.

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mason77: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 100; Joined: Tue Aug 05, 2014 11:28 am

by mason77 » Sun May 15, 2016 2:25 pm

I will go with option E this case.

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