|Question 7Verbal

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On painter William H. Johnson's return to the United States in 1938 after a decade in Europe, his style underwent an abrupt transformation. Turning away from landscapes painted in an expressionist style a style that often involves using fluid, distorted shapes and thick, textured brushstrokes to express the artist's subjective experience of reality-Johnson began painting portraits of Black Americans in a bold new way. Evocative of African sculpture and American and Scandinavian folk art, these portraits feature flat, deliberately oversimplified figures in a vibrant but limited color palette.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
It elaborates on the previous sentence's statement about a transitional moment in Johnson's artistic career.
A
It provides information about Iohnson's travels in support of a claim about his artistic influences, which is advanced in the following sentence.
B
It recounts a moment in Johnson's personal life that enabled the success of his subsequent career, which is summarized in the following sentence.
C
It presents evidence that calls into question the previous sentence's characterization of Tohnson's artistic development.
D