Winslow Homer: Asymmetric Balance

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This art piece was created by a well-known artist named Winslow Homer called “Right and Left” using oils for this piece. He was mainly known as a landscape painter and printmaker. The Louvre, national gallery of art states that Homer is “perhaps the most accomplished and popular of all American artists.” This gallery has displayed most of all his work throughout his career which was underway a little over one hundred and sixty years ago in 1857.
This piece that I have choose stood out to me the most in relation to the term asymmetric balance. To me asymmetric balance means that if an invisible line were to split the picture in half, the picture would have the same concept but will not be identical on each side making it unsymmetrical. It shows

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