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The painting I chose for this week's blog post is called "Sunrise" I found this painting on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's website, it is an oil on canvas painting that was made around 1646-47 by the artist Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellee). This art work shows many aspects of space and perspective.The foreground to this painting is the place where the  man is standing by himself and the animals, the middle ground is where the man and woman are on the river riding a horse and guiding the animals somewhere. I think that the background for this painting is where the grass and trees are on the other side of the river and also I think the mountains in the back also are a part of the background as well as the blue sky and the clouds. The things in this painting that show relative size and scale is the animals and the trees the trees look like they are getting smaller almost like they are walking towards the main point in this painting the place where ones eyes goes first in the painting which is the couple on the horse and the dark trees. The style of this art work is presentational because the artist is trying to make the painting as real as possible, for example the animals and people in the painting and the surrounding landscape look very realistic,and this art work resembles forms in the natural world. On both sides of the river there is some form of visual rhythm with the repetition of the accented shades of the trees and of the surrounding mountains also there seems to be a balance and calmness throughout the painting. I chose to draw the table and tv that are placed in front of my bed my eye level is directly ahead looking upward above eye level.