What role of art criticism does it display?
"The justification for the term abstract expressionist lies in the fact that most of the painters covered by it took their lead from German, Russian, or Jewish expressionism in breaking away from late Cubist abstract art. But they all started from French painting, for their fundamental sense of style from it, and still maintain some sort of continuity with it."

a. Offering insight into art's meaning
b. Making judgments determining good or bad art
c. Gatekeeping in helping to determine what is considered art