LSAT 117 | Section 4 | Logical Reasoning: Q15

LR Question 15 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: Artists have different ways of producing contours …

QUESTION TYPE: Must Be True

FACTS:

1. Artists have different ways of producing contours and hatching.
2. If you analyze these styles, you can distinguish the artist.
3. That analysis showed that many drawings formerly attributed to Michelangelo were actually by Clovio.

ANALYSIS: The analysis was able to separate drawings by Michelangelo from drawings by Clovio.

And it did so by looking at contours and hatching.

So there must be some detectable difference between the two artists’ styles in those features.

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1. Contours and hatching can help distinguish artists, but it’s never claimed that they’re the main distinguishing features.
2. The drawings are said to be by Clovio, not forgeries.
3. Too strong. The stimulus says analysis can help distinguish forgeries. That’s not the same thing as saying perfect duplication is impossible.
4. The analysis doesn’t need to show features of all Clovio’s works. It only needs enough stylistic evidence to identify these drawings as his.
5. CORRECT. If contour and hatching analysis showed that some drawings were by Clovio rather than Michelangelo, then there must be some analyzable difference between their styles in those respects.