Directions: Write down the claim.

Then, choose the best work—record the title, artist, and date.

Provide bullets that offer evidence to support your choice.

In this work, the artist deliberately avoids idealizing the laboring peasants in order to draw attention to the arduous monotony of their work.

Jean-Francois MilletThe Gleaners, 1857

Gustave CourbetThe Stone Breakers, 1849

The asymmetrical composition and patterned effect of the overall design reveals that the artist was influenced by Japanese woodblock prints.

Claude MonetWheatstacks1891

Mary CassattThe Boating Party

1893

The deliberate fracturing of the viewer’s stable one-point perspective is meant to powerfully focus the viewer on the implied subject of the work.

Édouard Manet A Bar at the Folies-Bergère 1882

Gustave CaillebotteParis Street, A Rainy Day

1877

The abrupt framing of this composition suggests the influence of photography on the artist.

John Singer SargentThe Daughters of Edward Darley Boit1882

Edward DegasViscount Lepic and His Daughters

1873