The foreground is a concentration of yellow color in the grass, which is the lightest part in the whole painting. ... Green is the primary color, except for the dark blue sky, the yellow grass, and a touch of brown on the roof of the church. ... In my opinion it is more likely to be a sunset, a symbol of the end. ... In the painting lower left hand you can see a woman dressed in green walking towards the church. Looking at the woman made me wonder if she was an acquaintance he cared about. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The colour used is warm and almost monochromatic (with warm browns, ochres and blacks being the main colours), with soft light falling on the faces of the mother and the old woman. ... It is not a portrait of particular people, but they are symbols of mankind. ... The figures are mostly painted in black (a symbol of mourning) and seem to merge together as one. ... The landscape is painted dull browns and yellows, whereas the clothing of the peasant women is painted using warm reds and blue-greens. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Moon Woman' (1942) is based on a myth of the North American Indians. ... They worked in a variety of styles, but generally shared a commitment to creating large-scale, abstract works, an interest in Jungian psychological theories of the collective unconscious with regards to symbols and archetypes, and a belief that expressiveness was achieved, in part, through the physical process of painting. ...

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