Which medium is preferred by time-based artists for its high image quality?

What is an element of the Cubist style?

a) It attempts to depict objects/images from multiple perspectives simultaneously. b) It is based on irony and absurdity, in reaction to the horrors of World War I. c) It is based on the subconscious, non-rational self. d) It attempts to represent motion and movement.

For a number of years this composer was granted a substantial stipend by a wealthy patron, Countess Nadezhda von Meck, an unusual occurrence in the late nineteenth century

A) Claude Debussy B) Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov C) Modest Mussorgsky D) Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky