There are many famous paintings in the world today that are created by different artists. Each one of them tells a story or narrative, the paintings are put together in many ways by the color, shape, and style. Most of the paintings even shows symbolism to the meaning of the artwork. The painting I chose was Rocket to the Moon created by Romare Bearden a famous artists in 1971. This painting is different from others, because it's a collage of different pictures used to make this painting. Also the painting I chose have many different colors, shapes, different styles and it even show a little symbolism. "Rocket to the Moon" tells a little story or narrative that shows self-expression. To me the story seems to be about the life and struggle of African Americans in the inner cities. I say this, because of the big buildings, lights, and the images of the black people in the collage. The city the painting seems like it's trying to explain, looks like the city of Chicago to me. I say Chicago of many cities, because it's known to have many black people struggling there and by the way the city looks with the big buildings. The painting could even be about the roaring 20's of African Americans or in other words the Harlem Renaissance. The roaring 20's is known for rural life and urban life, jazz, African American music, and even paintings. If you look close into the painting you could see some of those things. For example, the big buildings could represent the rural and urban life back then. When you look at this collage you can see the many different shapes, color, and texture of how this picture is put together. The shapes that are used in this painting seems to be positive because it catches your eye to make you be more focus on the shapes used. There are a lot of shapes used because there are a lot of boundaries which are separated from what surrounds the picture. As you look at the collage you can tell it has actual lines. For example