QUESTION TEXT: The Board of Trustees of the Federici…
QUESTION TYPE: Weaken
CONCLUSION: Selling the paintings won’t lower the quality of the museum’s collection.
REASONING: The museum has some inferior paintings by Renoir and Cezanne.
ANALYSIS: We need to find some reason why selling the paintings will lower the quality of the museum’s collection.
It’s often quite interesting to see an artist’s early work: it shows you they weren’t always a master painter.
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- So? This doesn’t weaken the conclusion that we can sell paintings without lowering the quality of the collection.
- CORRECT. If this is true, then the collection’s quality will take a hit if we sell the inferior paintings. They help show the progression of Renoir and Cezanne’s work from novices to master artists.
- It doesn’t matter what critics thought at the time. It only matters whether the paintings have useful qualities, now.
- Inflation? We don’t care about art prices. The conclusion is about the quality of the museum’s collection.
- Same as D. We don’t care about prices, we only care about the quality of the museum’s collection.
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