THE MYSTERY OF MIRRORS


Mirrors, those (1) ........................ surfaces which produce an image of objects
placed           MAGIC

in front of them, are a (2) ........................ image in Western art. Painters seem to
            RECUR

have been fascinated by the (3) ........................ between the virtual reality which
           RELATE

spontaneously appears in a mirror and the one which they artificially create by painting

on plaster, paper or canvas. In both cases, the (4) ......................... sees something
OBSERVE

which is not where it seems to be. But in contrast to a painted image, which

presupposes that the painted surface can be seen, what we see in a mirror requires that

the reflective surface is (5) .............................. When mirrors are represented in
              VISIBLE

paintings, the situation becomes complicated in a particularly (6) ............................
INTRIGUE

way: the virtual reality of the picture includes a second virtual reality in the form

of a painted (7) ........................... .
                                   REFLECT