Anthropomorphic involves the act of giving the characteristics of humans to other things. This is an imagery used where human characteristics are given to non-living things. I think it is being used since it can depict certain factors in the human life but still being subtle about it. Another reason is that it shows creativity in the work.
<span>John Singleton Copley (1738-1815) was the acclaimed artist of colonial America who used the Portrait d’apparat; a rococo way of using objects used by his subject in their daily life in the portraits. This gave more liveliness and vision to his portraits which was new to American painting in that time.<span>
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I had the Same answer the other day