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This piece of art is a painting, located on the second story of the art building as you walk up the stairs. The media being used for it is paint, a mixture of pigment and binder, and the support for it is wall. The painting did not have a title so I named it "Temple of Nature." This painting is very large and takes up the whole wall. It has four columns wrapped with leaves and on the column to the far right it has a snake on it. In the center it has a big red door that catches the eye. On both sides of the door there is some writing, by my guess it looks to be Japanese or Korean, but I am not sure. There are palm trees on the right side of the painting, and at the top the columns seem to connect by an arch.
"Temple of Nature" is a two-dimensional piece of art because it can only be viewed from one side. It is also representational because everything in the painting can be found in the real world, and not in the
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I think it creates a calm mood because of the balance it has. The four columns help create balance. As you walk up the stairs of the art building and look up you see the painting, and I called "Temple of Nature" because it feels like you could just walk up and into the painting. The environment around it is very boring and grey, but this painting puts some color and makes it seem more fun to go up the stairs. This work is representational and it affects my understanding by relating what I see in the painting to what I remember in real life. For example I saw the snake and it made me think of the jungle, but when I saw the columns it reminded me of Europe because there are ancient ruins that are still standing from hundreds of years ago. This painting is symmetrically balanced, but not exactly the same, it kind of throws the mood off a little because I like to have everything perfectly balanced. I also wish that I knew what the writing behind the columns said to help me interpret the piece

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