'Transcendentalism: It's Of A Pond'

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This is a canvas painting of a pond. The painting comes off realistic in the actual water, but around the side it looks almost fuzzy. There is lots of detail in the painting, though it's also simple. There is simplicity in the color scheme, it is mostly greens, browns, and there is some purple in there. Even though the color scheme is fairly simple, and almost dull, it still shows lots of details and looks very realistic. This painting represents transcendentalism in many ways. First of all it's of a pond, which I described reflects transcendentalism because of it being in nature, and how some are shallow and deep, some are detailed and some are simple. Transcendentalism also pays a lot of attention to nature, and this painting is very detailed

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