Visibilty

After reading the chapter Visibility, it took me several times to re read what I was reading, because I did not understand how this could relate to art or what it meant. The passage starts out with a quote from Dante, (Purgatorio XVII.25) “Then rained down into the high fantasy…” in which I did not understand why this line was taken out of Dante or how it would be related to art in general.

Upon further reading, I in my opinion gained more knowledge and realized maybe what Dante was saying was that these images came to him from God and down from heaven as he does state in the text. Dante is trying to understand his imagination and what role it proceeds and how it occurs the visual part of it in his mind. Upon further reading the text discusses that there are two types of imaginative processes in which the first starts with a word then an image appears. The second type of imaginative process starts with the visual image first then with the verbal expression following. It is common for the first process to occur more over then the second process as stated in the text.

After finishing the passage and having to read it multiple times to truly understand the context of this text, in my opinion Dante is helping to explain why the imagination process is critical in ones life and it does have to deal with art because art is imaginative.