Although the impact of the 1883 Krakatoa eruption on global temperatures is well-documented, its influence on nineteenth-century British art remains a subject of debate. Some art historians argue that the vibrant, crimson sunsets in William Ashcroft’s pastel drawings from the mid-1880s were direct records of the volcanic aerosols that dispersed worldwide.
[1] Ashcroft, who resided in Chelsea, London, created thousands of these quick sketches from his west-facing window, starting just months after the cataclysm.
Others, however, contend that his palette was merely a continuation of a pre-existing British aesthetic tradition of dramatic twilight scenes, suggesting the volcanic dust was coincidental to his style.
The writer is considering deleting Sentence 1 (marked by [1]) from the passage. Should the sentence be kept or deleted?
- Kept, because it provides essential geographical and chronological context that supports the argument that Ashcroft’s work recorded the eruption’s actual atmospheric effects.Cevap
- BKept, because it offers biographical evidence explaining why Ashcroft chose to focus his artistic career entirely on meteorological phenomena.
- CDeleted, because it shifts the focus of the paragraph from a scientific discussion of volcanic aerosols to a narrative about Ashcroft’s daily artistic habits.
- DDeleted, because it repeats information about the timing of Ashcroft’s sketches that is already established in the first sentence of the passage.