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Chapter 1 Visual Exercises




Chapter 1. Observing the Ordinary
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Click on the corresponding number above the image at left to answer the questions. Use the boxes below to work through each question and e–mail your response to yourself and/or your instructor.

Seeing & Writing
1. How many objects do you see in this image? What details do you notice about each? Do they seem to be from a particular era or of a particular style? Write your response below.



2. How does Pinsky's poem inform your reading of Alfred Leslie's painting and vice versa? How would you describe the tone of each–ironic, funny, somber, or something else? Write your response below.



3. How does this setting (the artist's studio) affect your perception of Leslie's painting? How does it differ from encountering the painting in a textbook? Write your response below.



4. How would you compare the way you look at nature with the way you look at television? Do you use the same kind of skills for each? Why or why not? Write your response below.



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