In the painting, Country Dance, Thomas Hart Benton worked with shapes, texture, color, and value to achieve some sort of balance or harmony is his piece.Due to the repetition of lines on the ceiling create a wooden, peaceful feel. The organic shapes of the men and women dancing are proportioned well showing the size difference. The women in the front who has a red dress on displays emphasis because of the radiant red color of her coloring standing out apart from everyone else's neutral colored clothing. Also, the texture of the women’s dresses shows a silk material because there seem to be no rough edges and it flows nicely. The shape that the men and women are in with one foot in the air as those they are hopping for foot to foot shows movement