Elaine: The purpose of art museums is to preserve artworks and make them available to the public. Museums, therefore, should seek to acquire and display the best examples of artworks from each artistic period and genre, even if some of these works are not recognized by experts as masterpieces. Frederick: Art museums ought to devote their limited resources to acquiring the works of recognized masters in order to ensure the preservation of the greatest artworks.
Question: Elaine’s and Frederick’s statements provide the most support for the claim that they would disagree about whether
Options:
A. many artistic masterpieces are not recognized as such by art experts
B. museums should seek to represent all genres of art in their collections
C. art museums should seek to preserve works of art
D. an art museum ought to acquire an unusual example of a period or genre if more characteristic examples are prohibitively expensive
E. all of the artworks that experts identify as masterpieces are actually masterpieces
Answer: B