How should the importance of technical skill be understood in expressive art?

Skill is a means to give effective form to feeling and idea

The governing concept is the relationship between intention and execution. Technical skill includes control of materials, composition, proportion, colour, line, texture, and visual emphasis. These abilities help an artist communicate a feeling or idea clearly, but skill is not the whole meaning of an artwork; intention, subject, context, and experience also matter. Therefore, option A is correct because technique is a means that gives expressive thought a convincing form. Option B wrongly separates method from communication. Option C reduces art to virtuosity, and option D assumes strong emotion automatically produces clear expression. In some styles rules are deliberately broken, but that choice can still require awareness and control.

This is a Class 9 Art Education question. Chapter: Introduction to Art. Topic: Art as a form of expression.