nity offered by off-off Broadway theaters.
Gestures in painting are typically thought of as bold, expressive brushstrokes. In the
1970s, American painter Jack Whitten
built a 12-foot (3.7-meter)
tool he named the
"
developer" to
apply paint to an entire canvas in one motion, resulting in his series of
"slab" paintings from
that decade. Whitten described this process as making an entire
painting in "one gesture," signaling a clear departure from the prevalence of gestures in
his work from the 1960s. Some art historians claim this shift represents "removing
gesture" from the process. Therefore, regardless of whether using the developer
constitutes a gesture, both Whitten and these art historians likely agree that
Which choice most logically completes the text?les likely
A. any tool that a painter uses to create an artwork is capable of creating gestures.
B. Whitten's work from the 1960s exhibits many more gestures than his work from the
1970s does.
ood.
C. Whitten became less interested in exploring the role of gesture in his work as his
career progressed.
D. Whitten's work from the 1960s is much more realistic than his work from the 197