What is a defining characteristic of Baroque art?
a. Attention to viewers’ emotional experience of a work
b. Return to the forms and proportions of classical art
c. Focus on the symbolic meaning of a work
d. Absence of excessive decoration and sensuousness
Ans: a. Attention to viewers’ emotional experience of a work
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In Old Mole, Martin Puryear asks questions about the
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