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1) “ I found that I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn’t say in
any other way things that I had no words for,” Arkansas O’Keeffe wrote in the
foreword to a catalog for an exhibition of her work two decades before she
became the first female artist honored with a retrospective at the Museum of
Modern Art — a triumph largely predicated on her arresting large-scale
paintings of flowers, magnified and abstracted to radiate uncommon emotional
intensity haloed by awe.
Answer: False
2) “ I found that I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn’t say in
any other way things that I had no words for,” _______ O’Keeffe wrote in the
foreword to a catalog for an exhibition of her work two decades before she
became the first female artist honored with a retrospective at the Museum of
Modern Art — a triumph largely predicated on her arresting large-scale
paintings of flowers, magnified and abstracted to radiate uncommon emotional
intensity haloed by awe.
Answer: Georgia
Answer: sexuality
4) You put out your hand to touch the flower — lean forward to smell it —
maybe touch it with your lips almost without thinking — or give it to someone to
please them. Still — in a way — nobody sees a flower — really — it is so small —
we haven’t time — and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
Answer: True
5) You put out your hand to touch the flower — lean forward to smell it —
maybe touch it with your lips almost without thinking — or give it to someone to
please them. Still — in a way — nobody sees a flower — really — it is so _______
— we haven’t time — and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
Answer: small
1)Richard Feynman
2)Carl Sagan
3)Albert Einstein
4)Michio Kaku
Answer: Woolf
Answer: idea
9) If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it no one would see what I see.
Explain why.
Answer source: If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it no one would see
what I see because I would paint it small like the flower is small.
10) Decades later, the _______ physicist Richard Feynman offered a different,
complementary lens on the art of seeing through his now-famous monologue
known as “Ode to a Flower.
Answer: Nobel-winning
Answer: False
12) If I could _______ the flower exactly as I see it no one would see what I see
because I would paint it small like the flower is small.
Answer: paint
13) If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it no one would see what I see
because I would paint it small like the flower is small. So I said to myself — I’ll
paint what I see — what the flower is to me but I’ll paint it big and they will be
surprised into taking time to look at it — I will make even busy _______ take time
to see what I see of flowers.
Answer: New-Yorkers
14) Before Feynman, before Woolf, another titan of the creative spirit found a
powerful metaphor for how we experience the _______ — how we see it, and how
we don’t — in a flower.
Answer: world
15) You put out your hand to _______ the flower — lean forward to smell it —
maybe touch it with your lips almost without thinking — or give it to someone to
please them.
Answer: touch
16) Well — I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time
to really notice my _______, you hung all your own associations with flowers on
my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think
and see of the flower — and I don’t.
Answer: flower
17) If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it no one would see what I see
because I would paint it small like the flower is small.
Answer: True