Mark Rothko’s Blue, Orange, Red is different from Willem de Kooning’s Woman and Bicycle because it __________.

a. uses large areas of color to evoke moods, such as joy and despair
b. conveys personal expression through spontaneous brushstrokes
c. has neither personal expression nor symbolic content
d. demonstrates the influence of commercial art in the postwar period

a. uses large areas of color to evoke moods, such as joy and despair