Assignment: Descriptive Essay
This is an oil painting on canvas. Basically it’s a very old picture, but the color is still very bright. The painter would like to describe a picture that fruits stacked on a market stand, there were many different kinds, with a lot of colors. The picture looked so beautiful that people always stopped and appreciated it.
Fruits were not displayed disorderly. All the fruits were placed into three columns. Some of them with bigger sizes were put in both sides, while the smaller ones such as plums, green grapes, grapes, were placed in sequence from top to bottom in the middle of the picture. The fruits with a similar color were not also put together. Pink peaches were placed on the upper right corner, while red tomatoes were put under them, and yellow pears were displayed in the bottom right corner. Red apples, oranges and green apples were also placed in order on the left sides. It was a trenchancy comparison, and the customers can easily find what they want, save their time and feel more confident. The business of this counter must be very prosperous because the colors of the fruit looked so bright that it made us feel they must be very delicious, so did the customers. When I was looking at the picture, I even couldn’t help picking the fruits off to eat.
The fruits were not just on the table, but you couldn’t see the table in the painting because the sellers spread a piece of cloth below each bigger fruit, in order to keep them fresh and clean, and the table had been hide. But instead, each smaller one would be put into a box, because these small fruits would be easily scattered all over the floor without containers. What’s more, there were some plants with dark green leaves placed behind the fruits. The whole scene gave us a comfortable feeling. It would help the customers felt more relax and enjoyed their shopping.z
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