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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Calida Garcia Rawles is an African American painter.
• She is known for her large-scale, hyperrealistic paintings depicting African American figures in water.
• The painting Lightness of Being (24 × 30 in) depicts a young man with his arms outstretched floating on the right side of the canvas.
• Lost in the Shuffle (36 × 24 in) depicts two young men with their arms outstretched floating in the bottom left and upper right corners of the canvas.
• She paints the water with vivid blue colors, including periwinkle and cobalt.
• The mood in the paintings is placid.

Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to emphasize the location of the figures in Lost in the Shuffle?

A

While the number of figures may differ, constant among Rawles’s hyperrealistic works is the placid mood that the paintings evoke.

B

In Rawles’s painting Lost in the Shuffle, two young men are depicted in the bottom left and upper right corners of the canvas.

C

At 36 by 24 inches, Rawles’s Lost in the Shuffle is even larger than the sizable 24-by-30-inch painting Lightness of Being.

D

Rawles captures the water in paintings such as Lightness of Being and Lost in the Shuffle in vivid hues of periwinkle and cobalt.