People may praise the talent of a painter capable of realistically portraying ... ...

People may praise the talent of a painter capable of realistically portraying a scene and dismiss as artistically worthless the efforts of abstract expressionists, but obviously an exact replica of the scene depicted is not the only thing people appreciate in a painting, for otherwise photography would have entirely displaced painting as an art form.

The argument proceeds by


(A) using a claim about what most people appreciate to support an aesthetic principle
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*This question is included in PT70 (Oct 2013): Logical Reasoning B