High School Reading Grades 11 12 Quiz
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The curator's essay opened with a provocation: "To call a painting derivative is, in most gallery circles, to dismiss it. Yet the Latin root suggests only that something has been drawn from a source, as a stream is drawn from a river. The pejorative flavor is a modern accretion. When Renaissance masters were called derivative of the ancients, the term functioned as praise; the derivation was proof of learned lineage. Only in an age obsessed with originality could 'to draw from' become an insult."
The curator's discussion of derivative is primarily intended to demonstrate that:
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