Correct answers to Main Point questions often restate or summarize the author’s main conclusion, if the author includes one in the passage. Here, the author offers a conclusion at the beginning of the passage: "At the same time that Bearden's work reflects a lifelong commitment to perfecting the innovative painting techniques he pioneered, it also reveals an artist engaged in a search for ways to explore the varieties of African–American experience” (lines 2-7). We know this is the main point becuase the rest of the passage supports this claim. The second paragraph shows how Bearden perfected his painting techniques and the third and fourth paragraphs show how he explored the varieties of African-American experience.” The answer choice that gets closest to this conclusion is (B).
