<p>During the 1920s many Cuban painters who had traveled abroad returned to their homeland to produce paintings that were more angular and stylized than conventional Western painters.</p>
<p>(A) conventional Western painters
(B) Western painters who were conventional
(C) those being produced by conventional Western painters
(D) conventions of Western painting
(E) conventional Western paintings</p>
<p>The answer is (C), but I chose (E). Why can’t (E) also work? Aren’t both (C) and (E) appropriate comparisons?</p>