Atlas and other children his age begin to engage in play activities that are more elaborate and purposeful. what is happening in motor development to support this developmental change in play?

Atlas is probably developing gross motor skills like being able to walk on their tiptoes or to stand on one foot. They are developing fine motor skills like being able to snip things with scissors.

Explanation:

It seems from the question prompt that Atlas is probably about 3 years old and they are acquiring gross motor skills like being able to climb well and to skip. They are also starting to refine their fine motor skills at this age and they can use scissors and hold a crayon and eat themselves. By age 4 they will be able to manipulate clay for example. This is the stage where children are moving beyond just performing parallel play at 2 years old to associative play at 3 to 4 years old.

Atmospheric.

Explanation:

Atmospheric perspective also referred to as aerial perspective is the method by which illusions of depth are made in paintings by modulation of colors to show effect of changes by the atmosphere on the colour of things seen from afar.

Durand used a monochromatic color scheme, using a varieties of a specific set of colors, which shows off a soothing feeling to its viewers. Usage of several shades of green and brown does not provoke any feelings of happiness or sadness but rather of serenity and calmness. Durand's work is very realistic, it does not have any exotic or abstract figures. Asher Brown Durand created Kindred Spiritsin 1849 to honor his late teacher Thomas Cole who died in 1848. Jonathon Sturges who was a former business partner of Cole told Durand to create the painting so that it could be given to William Cullen Bryant, Cole’s 3 Patrick Frank.

Brown Durand’s painting set in an idealized, composite landscape constructed from several sites in the Catskill mountain range. Kindred Spirits is a depiction of an essay of the Hudson River School of painting. Asher Brown Durand depicted this imaginary site with naturalistic style, careful attention to detail, and mastery of light and color to praise his mentor Cole. Where Cole stands with his friend, the poet William Cullen Bryant as “kindred spirits,” representative of the harmonious intertwine of their respective artistic mediums of poetry and the visual arts.