Answer:
1. The Pomo ceremony
2. He was brightly using colors
3. Image of culture
Explanation:
- It depicts the scene where the Pomo ceremony is happening, two people are dancing parallel with each other and others are looking. It happens in a large underground roundhouse. The most important thing in that Pomo ceremony is a ritual dance and the light is showing us the importance of it because it falls right on the two man that are dancing. Other people are watching, and we can see one beautiful culture.
- The most important elements that he used are color and brightness.
We can see smoke hole light coming from the rooftop and putting its shadow on the people that are dancing. He applied wisely his pigments by showing us light and the dark side of the architecture in painting. The details of the painting are good, but his brushwork is not finicky.
3. Image of culture is very compelling in this painting because it has a lot of details that are showing a lot to us. For example instruments, clothes, interior, ritual dance. Also, the way and tension of ritual dance, because of that tension between two man we can feel that, that is a ritual dance. People of one culture are sitting and peacefully watching and that is the proof that they belong to one culture and group.
