Contemporary forms of mixed media art have their genesis in some of the early twentieth century works of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, who first called these works collage. Interestingly, the combination, or even agglutination, of visual media has been around at least since Byzantine artists added gold leaf to their paintings. Nevertheless, for the Cubist practitioners, the new combinatory methods challenged old notions of what a painting could be, and the new freedoms they embodied served as approaches either to further fragmentation of the picture plane or to adding a third dimension, through texture and layering, to the two-dimensional surface. By introducing what Braque called displaced objects, such as pieces of cloth or multiple layers of newspaper, and what later artists called found objects, early collage makers, as well as contemporary artists, pushed the painting envelope to ask new questions such as whether art could be made with already existing materials, to what extent the process of making art superseded or was of equal importance to the product, and to what degree art and the objects of real life were, indeed, separate. Scores of later artists further developed these questions and added new ones, including Marcel Duchamp, the great conceptual artist; Robert Rauschenberg, a pioneer in the use of materials traditionally thought to be beyond the realm of art; and Rosemarie Trockel, producer of the first machine-knitted pictures, among other groundbreaking mixed media works.

Which of the following, if it were true, would weaken the author's argument?

A. Leonardo DaVinci consciously mixed dry and wet visual media in order to make a statement about the limitations of Italian art.
B. William Blake employed an early form of mixed media when he added vibrant watercolor washes to his prints.
C. As early as the twelfth century, Japanese artists employed collage methods to make paper for painting.
D. Rosemarie Trockel stretched knitted woolens over a frame to create some of her mixed media art.
E. Duchamp, most famously known for Dadaism, proclaimed the purpose of art to be to please the mind, not the eye.



As used in the passage, "agglutination" most likely means

A. separation
B. colorful
C. artistic
D. cohesion
E. experimentation