How Did Avant-Garde Artists Demonstrate Their Opinion of and Attitude

question 34

Multiple Choice

How did avant-garde artists demonstrate their opinion of and attitude toward middle-class mores and taste, in keeping with their watchword, épater la bourgeoisie?

• A) They presented art that was primarily sentimental in nature.
• B) They produced art that was seen as morally questionable or alien and bizarre.
• C) They mostly depicted human rather than animal or inanimate subjects.
• D) They sought to keep their art consistent with the literature that most appealed to the middle class audiences.
• E) They emphasized the rational over the irrational in their art.

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