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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 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.
  • Guardian (96 × 48 in) depicts a woman in a white dress floating in the center of the canvas.
  • She paints the water with vivid blue colors, including sapphire blue and ultramarine.
  • The mood in the paintings is serene.
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 Lost in the Shuffle and Guardian in vivid hues of sapphire blue and ultramarine.
B
While some of Rawles’s works, such as Lost in the Shuffle, feature two figures in the composition, Guardian features one figure floating in the vivid blue water.
C
Although the number of figures may differ, constant among Rawles’s hyperrealistic works is the serene mood that the paintings evoke.
D
Among the many stunning works of Calida Garcia Rawles is Guardian, a serene 96-by-48-inch painting depicting a woman floating in a white dress in the vivid blue water.