A marketing plan is a formal business document that is used as a blueprint or guide for how a company will achieve its marketing goals. A marketing plan differs from a business plan in that it focuses more on market research, attracting customers, and marketing strategies, whereas the business plan covers much more than that […]

Aaron Douglas created this mural in 1934 as a commission by the U.S. government’s Works Progress Administration under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s economic plan, the New Deal. This mural is one in a set of four. The document encircled by light in the center is the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. The second encircled document on […]

On White II (1923) is an oil painting by Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian-born artist who worked as a law professor before developing his artistic talent in his 30s. This painting is an example of abstract modernism. Some people have observed the painting looks like an explosion of shapes and colors coming from the center of […]

Odds and Ends (1939), also known as The Remains of a Forest, is an oil painting by Canadian artist Emily Carr. It shows a landscape after it has been cleared by industrial loggers. In her journals, Carr described the tree stumps as “tombstones” and the large splinters left along the tree stumps by the logging […]