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15 May 2022, 04:45
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Dear Experts,
I read all comments.
However, I don't understand (C). What does (C) actually mean? and How (C) help?
I eliminated (A), (D), and (E).
I read all comments.
However, I don't understand (C). What does (C) actually mean? and How (C) help?
I eliminated (A), (D), and (E).
19 May 2022, 09:52
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To understand (C), let's first consider a similar situation to El Greco's paintings:
Imagine an artist who loved painting glasses of milk, but for some reason this artist painted the milk as green rather than white. Then imagine someone tried to explain this weird situation by suggesting the artist wore green-tinted glasses all the time. Would this explain why the artist painted green milk?
Not really. Because if the artist wore green-tinted glasses all the time, then white paint would also look green. In other words, the green-tinted glasses would distort not only the color of actual milk, but the color of the artist's paintings as well. So if the artist painted milk using white paint, it would still look green to the artist. As a result, the green-tinted lenses would not explain why the artist used green paint instead of white paint.
Let's now examine (C):
Quote:
Just as an artist with green-tinted lenses would see white paint as green, so would a person with astigmatism see normal figures in a painting as elongated. In other words, if El Greco had astigmatism, not only would he have seen living people as elongated, he would have seen paintings of normally-shaped people as elongated.
Put another way: astigmatism would explain why El Greco saw people as elongated. But it would not explain why he painted people as elongated. Because if he had astigmatism, paintings of normally-shaped people would have appeared to him as elongated. So he'd have no reason to actually paint them as elongated.
I hope that helps!
noboru
Here is the video solution:
Premises:
Astigmatism distorts vision.
El Greco's paintings have elongated figures.
Critics say that this is because he had astigmatism so he saw figures elongated.
Conclusion:
Critics' suggestion cannot be the explanation, because______________.
We need to provide support to the author's conclusion that astigmatism was not the reason behind the elongated figures. We have to explain why astigmatism cannot be the reason for elongated figures. Mind you, we are not looking for an alternative reason. The sentence needs to provide why astigmatism cannot be the reason.
(A) several twentieth-century artists have consciously adopted from El Greco’s paintings the systematic elongation of the human form
It does nothing to tell us the reason why El Greco started painting in this way. Other artists started copying him and making longer faces is irrelevant. He started a trend and others followed. Point is what made him start the trend? Why are we certain that it was not astigmatism?
(B) some people do have elongated bodies somewhat like those depicted in El Greco’s portraits
It doesn't explain why astigmatism cannot be the reason for elongated figures. Even if some people had those, we are not looking for some other reason that could explain the elongated figures in his paintings. We need to talk about why astigmatism cannot be the reason. Note the last line: this suggestion cannot be the explanation, because______________.
(C) if El Greco had an astigmatism, then, relative to how people looked to him, the elongated figures in his paintings would have appeared to him to be distorted
If he had astigmatism, when he would look at this own paintings with astigmatic eyes, the elongated figures he drew would look even more distorted to him and he would see that they do not represent reality.
Take a parallel example: Think of someone wearing pink tinted sunglasses permanently.
He sees a white flower and it looks pink to him.
He looks at his palette and white color looks pink to him (it matches the colour of the flower he is seeing). He picks up the white color and paints a flower with it. His painting looks like a painting of a pink flower to him. The actual pink in his palette perhaps looks like a deep pink to him and doesn't match the real flower he is looking at. So he will not pick that.
Note that he has depicted the reality the way it is because his perspective is the same everywhere. He is looking at the flower, at his palette and at his painting with the same eyes. But to someone else, the painting will show a white flower only.
That is what the question wants you to realise. If he had astigmatism in his eyes, he would have still reflected the reality accurately because he is looking at his painting with the same eyes. But we would have seen normal faces only in the painting.
Hence this reasoning shows us why astigmatism does not explain the elongated figures that we see in his painting. Correct.
(D) even if El Greco had an astigmatism, there would have been no correction for it available in the period in which he lived
Irrelevant. The critics are anyway implying that he had astigmatism and this condition was not corrected. We have to show why astigmatism was not the reason at all.
(E) there were non-European artists, even in El Greco’s time, who included in their works human figures that were intentionally distorted
Again, we need to talk about why astigmatism cannot be the reason.
Answer (C)
20 Dec 2025, 23:02
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ok i still dont understand why C is the correct answer....Greco drew the elongated figures becasue he saw human beings as elongated.....
Hence what he saw is drawn on his paintings...
he saw elongated humans
he drew elongated humans
Isnt that the case?
what is C talking about??
Hence what he saw is drawn on his paintings...
he saw elongated humans
he drew elongated humans
Isnt that the case?
what is C talking about??
