Decorative and delicately superficial __________ painting was the art of the waning aristocracy

Value judgment about art necessarily involves

subjectivity. negative judgments. contextual evaluation. analysis of an artist's biography.

Although he denied it, Millet's painting of The Gleaners was believed to __________.

A. make a political statement B. document a rapidly disappearing way of life C. mock the peasants it depicts D. romanticize the life of the poor