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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 Soar (24 × 18 in) depicts a young girl in a white dress floating at the bottom left corner of the canvas.
  • Yesterday Called and Said We Were Together (48 × 60 in) depicts two unidentifiable figures with their arms outstretched floating in the upper left of the canvas.
  • She paints the water with vivid blue colors, including midnight blue and aquamarine.
  • The mood in the paintings is relaxed.
Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to emphasize a difference between the two paintings?
A
Calida Garcia Rawles captures the water in paintings such as Soar and Yesterday Called and Said We Were Together in vivid hues of midnight blue and aquamarine.
B
While some of Rawles’s works, such as Soar, feature one figure in the composition, Yesterday Called and Said We Were Together features two figures floating in the vivid blue water.
C
Although the number of figures may differ, constant among Rawles’s hyperrealistic works is the relaxed mood that the paintings evoke.
D
Among the many stunning works of Calida Garcia Rawles is Yesterday Called and Said We Were Together, a relaxed 48-by-60-inch painting depicting two unidentifiable figures floating with their arms outstretched in the vivid blue water.