In this connection it is instructive to remember the Greek saying that to marvel is the beginning of knowledge and if we cease to marvel we may be in danger of ceasing to know. I believe we must restore our sense of wonder at the capacity to conjure up by forms, lines, shades, or colors those mysterious phantoms of visual reality we call pictures. Even comics and advertisements, rightly viewed, provide food for thought . Just as the study of poetry remains incomplete without an awareness of the language of prose, so, I believe, the study of art will be increasingly supplemented by inquiry into the linguistics of the visual image. The way the language of art refers to the visible world is both so obvious and so mysterious that it is still largely unknown except to artists, who use it as we use all languagewithout needing to know its grammar and semantics.
17. The author of the passage explicitly disagrees with which of the following statements
In modern society even nonartists can master techniques that great artists of the fourteenth century did not employ.
The ability to represent a three-dimensional object on a flat surface has nothing to do with art.
In modern society the victory of representational skills has created a problem for art critics.
The way that artists are able to represent the visible world is an area that needs a great deal more study before it can be fully understood.
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