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  1. What is recognizable in this painting? What is abstract? In what ways does this painting disorient the viewer?

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    Questions: - What is recognizable in this painting? What is abstract? In what ways does this painting disorient the viewer?
  2. What elements of urban life does Stuart Davis depict in what is supposed to be a quaint seaport scene?

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    Questions: - What elements of urban life does Stuart Davis depict in what is supposed to be a quaint seaport scene?
  3. How does Swing Landscape visually depict the rhythm and syncopation (the shifting of a musical accent by stressing a normally unstressed beat) of jazz? Look carefully at the way Davis uses repetition and the juxtaposition of geometric shapes and colors.

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    Questions: - How does Swing Landscape visually depict the rhythm and syncopation (the shifting of a musical accent by stressing a normally unstressed beat) of jazz? Look carefully at the way Davis uses repetition and the juxtaposition of geometric shapes and colors.