They were often seen as an <em>obstacle.</em>
Artistic forms of representation allow cultures to merge real world things with mysticism and beliefs, art allows the culture to imagine, create new images and forms of expression.
<span>The correct answer here is the option D.
In this poem by E.E. C.ummings the narrator wonders if the Moon is a balloon which can take the narrator to the city in the sky.
who knows if the moon’s
a balloon,coming out of a keen city
in the sky—filled with pretty people?
He than wonders if the balloon can take him to that city, where all the beautiful people live, where it is always spring and the flowers pick themselves. </span>
Well it was created during the baroque era, which makes it an example of baroque art.
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