Pieces of music consist of sounds and silences presented to the listener in a temporal order. A painting, in contrast, is not presented one part at a time to the viewer; there is thus no particular path that the viewer' s eye must follow in order to "read" the painting. Ttherefore, an essential distinction between the experiences of hearing music and of viewing paintings is that hearing music has a temporal dimension but viewing a painting has none. The reasoning in the argument is flawed because
A: relying on the metaphor of "reading" to characterize how a painting is viewed presupposes the correctness of the conclusion to be drawn on the basis of that characterization
B: the argument does not allow for the possibility of being immersed in experiencing a painting without being conscious of the passage of time
C: the absence of a particular path that the eye must follow does not entail that the eye follows no path
D: the argument fails to bring out the aspects of music and painting that are common to both as forms of artistic expression
Choose A, B, C or D as your solution.
C