I would say C. Through subordinating individual elements to the total effect
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Create your own art critique for The Raft of the Medusa. The Raft of Medusa was created 1818-1819 by Theodore Gericault. The painting shows a group of men on a raft in the middle of the ocean, some dead mean, some men waving clothes to signal a ship, dark gloomy sky, and a huge wave to the left of the piece.The artist uses two triangles as the main part of the composition. One large triangle leads the eye to the back of the raft and the dead men, and the small triangle leads the eye to the front of the raft where men are trying to signal a ship. The diagonal lines lead the eye towards the two key peaks, the huge wave to the left and the flag to the right. The artist uses dramatic colors to go with the scene of the painting and the tone is right.
B. The artist's tastes and the message the artist wants to convey.
While art can be an expression of culture it is really self expression and the artist's interpretation.
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Emotional responses are often regarded as the keystone to experiencing art, and the creation of an emotional experience has been argued as the purpose of artistic expression. Research has shown that the neurological underpinnings of perceiving art differ from those used in standard object recognition
