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Lesson 7 <Tab/> Barber Shop by Jacob Lawrence<Tab/>At the Time of the Louisville Flood by Margaret Bourke-White Generally the Barber Shop is an unrealistic painting; it is a painting consisting gouache on paper that the context looks abstract. It uses watercolor to draw the work so that it is opaque. Lots of outlines and some contour lines give simple but unrealistic shapes to the characters. One …

…and the At the Time of the Louisville Flood are two distinctive art works. Physically, there are no similarities at all because painting and photography are two different topics. But, in terms of the implicit meaning or function of painting and photography, they can share some common functions that, for instance, both the Barber Shop and the At the Time of the Louisville Flood record the world, which is one of the rules of art.