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MirandaLo

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Photorealism refers to:
 
  A. a movement in photography that explores various levels of representation.
  B. a movement in sculpture that uses actual objects.
  C. a movement in art that rejects the camera as a viable art tool.
  D. a movement in painting that explores the way a camera sees.
  E. a movement that involves documentation in film.

Question 2

Early Conceptualists reacted to the burgeoning art market by:
 
  A. co-opting the system by flooding the market with bad art.
  B. bringing trash bags to art receptions and taking all the food home.
  C. attempting to eliminate the art object.
  D. emphasizing the material value of art.
  E. imitating the mass-produced objects of popular culture.



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Answer to Question 1

D
With photorealism, photography replaced sketching as the primary way of gathering visual information, and the resulting photograph itself became the subject of the painting.

Answer to Question 2

C
Conceptual artists shifted their art into ideas and documented them in ways that had little or no perceived material value.



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