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The question as to what constitutes art is hardly a (i)_____ one. Today, artists exist whose main goal seems only to subvert work that no longer warrants the trite tag “cutting-edge.” Once the proverbial envelope is pushed even further, the public inevitably scratches its collective head – or furrows the collective brow – thinking that this time the “artists” have (ii)_____. That very same admixture of contempt and confusion, however, was not unknown in Michelangelo's day only what was considered blasphemous, art-wise, in the 16th Century, would today be considered (iii)_____.

Blank(i)Blank(ii)Blank(iii)
A perennial D served their purpose G hackneyed
B contemporary E gone too far H reverent
C controversial F failed to provoke I tame

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