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Throughout her career, the painter Georgia O’Keeffe and the writer Gertrude Stein were hostilely received by critics, who derided their work as unserious and unsophisticated. And yet, the artists’ work is today so widely accepted that it is studied in classrooms and displayed in museums. The initial hostility that greeted O’Keeffe and Stein is today a relic of a bygone era, a phenomenon that a 2017 study attributes to       
Which choice most logically completes the text?
A
the initial acclaim that the popular press gave the work of O’Keeffe and Stein.
B
a gradual acclimation to the artists’ work on the part of the public.
C
the rebellious and defiant attitude that O’Keeffe and Stein adopted in the face of criticism.
D
the artists’ decision to ignore popular opinion and instead follow their own creative impulses.