Its due to an emphasis on child bearing during that period. The figure of a woman who has children was thought to be beautiful.
Most likely melancholy, as that was the pint of many 'Blues' songs
For the first question, the answer is the flowers because there is a variety of them that further illustrates the recurring differences of line, shape, texture, value, color. For the second question, the artist uses a variety of line because there are many marks with length/direction, made on a surface by a moving point on the image. For the final one, I think the answer is value and shape because value refers to the lightness or darkness of achromatic/chromatic media, while shape is <span>defined by other art elements such as line, color, value, or texture. It can take on the appearance of solid three-dimensional forms through shading and other devices.</span>
