Model Answer Unit 2, Activity 1.2 B, The Stages of Dementia

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In picture A the bridge can be seen painted with much detail and in three dimensions. As his illness progressed, his spatial awareness reduced more and more until the artist’s style of depiction in picture D became two-dimensional, ornamental and detail was replaced with colour. These are often characteristics of more “naïve” – or “simple” – art.

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