What Is the Purpose of Using an Artist's "Critical Vision

What is the purpose of using an artist's "critical vision" as a data gathering method?

A) Engaging in a creative process can serve to disrupt existing perceptions about a subject and produce new insight.
B) Critique of an artist's work can produce insights that will strengthen future works.
C) An artist's vision can advance the use of intuition to verify what scientists learn from empirical observation.
D) Artworks collected as data can serve to challenge the tradition of collecting scientific data.