Ways of Seeing | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Chapter 1

1. In general, what does seeing do?

Enables you to respond to the environment.

2. In general, what are words used to do?

Explain the environment.

3. The author proposes that there is a gap between what two concepts?

Words and sight.

4. Which phrase describes Magritte's painting "The Key of Dreams"?

A four-pane window.

5. What does the author use "The Key of Dreams" as an example of?

The gap between words and image.

6. Magritte's painting is an example of what type of artwork?

Surrealism.

7. What does the author assert about vision?

Vision is a reciprocal function.

8. What does the word 'image' mean in this book?

Reproduced sight.

9. Which statement summarizes how images are subjective?

An artist represents his own way of seeing, and the viewer sees the art with another way of seeing.

10. What are images a record...
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