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: appealing to an aesthetic principle to defend the tastes that people have
B: appealing to a historical fact to support a claim about people's artistic preferences
C: explaining a historical fact in terms of the artistic preferences of people
D: considering historical context to defend the artistic preferences of people
Choose A, B, C or D as your solution.
B