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Ch. 3 Perception Key 1. I would award Tom Wesselmanns’ Great American Nude painting for first place because the artistic form of colors are bright and full of life which leads me to believe that the artist that painted this picture also felt this woman herself was bright and full of life. But the woman still has a little bit of mystery which is why he didn’t paint a face on her. We can tell she lives a modern lifestyle because of the phone, perfume and flowers. For second place, I would award Giorgione, Sleeping Venus because the slumber way she lays makes it seem almost as though she is a goddess. This painting has a lot of detail and I can tell that the artist participated a lot of his attention and time to creating it. The third place

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