If realism tends to favor the teaching function of art, then formalism tends to favor

A. the subject matter.
B. a “styleless” style.
C. the pleasure principle.
D. a didactic approach to art.

Answer: C

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In Dürer's print of the Fall of Man, the idealization of Adam and Eve is tempered by the ____ of the background

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