Comparative Art Analysis

Comparative Art Analysis

Submit the introduction to your comparative art analysis essay (Section I). Introduce readers to your chosen works, and present your main argument/thesis statement about the relationship between your works and their shared theme.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

I. Introduction

This section of the comparative analysis will introduce readers to the works you have selected to analyze. Address each of the following.

· For each work, identify the artist, the title (in italics), the date, the medium, the dimensions, the cultural origin or period of creation, and the current collection.

· What is your main argument/thesis statement about the relationship between your selected works and their shared theme?

· Relate the artworks you’ve selected with the contemporary social or cultural expression of the theme expressed in those pieces.

· Compare the two works of art and identify what larger point you hope to make through your comparison.

· Write a draft of your context paragraphs. In doing so, explain how each work represents its particular social, historical, and cultural climate. Consider how each artwork is influenced by its respective culture’s traditions and ideologies. Determine how each work reflect the social and cultural identities of its day. Be sure to include in-text citations for any outside sources you summarize, paraphrase, or quote.

· Write drafts of your comparison and contrast paragraphs. Explain the similarities and differences present in the formal characteristics of the works. Consider how each work might have influenced or shaped social or cultural identities, and explain how the theme shared by the works might have a modern or contemporary expression. Be sure to include in-text citations for any outside sources you summarize, paraphrase, or quote.

· Identify a contemporary artwork that expresses the same theme as the two artworks you’ve considered so far. Discuss this new piece, focusing on how it demonstrates the relevance of the shared theme in today’s society. Be sure to include in-text citations for any outside sources you summarize, paraphrase, or quote.

· Make sure you include all the references.

Your overall submission should be professionally articulate. The “Articulation of Response” critical element does not correspond to a section of your paper. It speaks to how professionally and clearly you articulate your ideas. This includes proper formatting and citation of sources.

Please select from the list below two works of art from different periods.

Comparison Suggestion List

· Italian Baroque/Abstract Expressionism

· Theme: dramatic expression

· Caravaggio, Entombment of Christ (Italian Baroque), ca. 1602

· Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) (Abstract Expressionism), 1950

· https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/monarchy-enlightenment/baroque-art1/baroque-italy/a/caravaggio-deposition

· http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/57.92

· http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/abstract-expressionism.html

· For contemporary connection, try looking at professional performance art (theater, dance, music, etc.)

· Dutch Baroque/Postimpressionism

· Theme: portrayal of family meal

· Jan Steen, The Merry Family (Dutch Baroque), 1668

· Van Gogh, The Potato Eaters (Postimpressionism), 1885

· http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/181/jan-steen-dutch-1626-1679/

· http://www.artble.com/artists/vincent_van_gogh/more_information/style_and_technique

· http://www.theartstory.org/artist-van-gogh-vincent-artworks.htm

· For contemporary connection, try looking at home improvement magazines/television shows, commercial advertising

· Dutch Baroque/Surrealism

· Theme: the presentation of self/female self-portraiture

· Judith Leyster, Self Portrait (Dutch Baroque), 1630

· Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas (Surrealism), 1939

· http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/highlights/highlight37003.html

· http://www.theartstory.org/artist-kahlo-frida.htm

· https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/art-between-wars/latin-american-modernism1/a/kahlo-the-two-fridas-las-dos-fridas

· For contemporary connection, try looking at various forms of social media, the selfie phenomenon

· Neoclassicism/Modernism

· Theme: honoring war veterans

· Jean Chalgrin et al., Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile, Paris (Neoclassicism), 1806–1836

· Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Modernism), 1982

· http://www.arcdetriompheparis.com/history

· http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Vietnam_War_Memorial.html

· https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/minimalism-earthworks/v/mayalin-vietnamvetmem

· For contemporary connection, try looking at contemporary public memorials

· Romanticism/Abstract Expressionism

· Theme: the sublime

· Caspar David Friedrich, Monk by the Sea (Romanticism), ca. 1809

· Barnett Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis (Abstract Expressionism), 1950-51

· http://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/the-sublime/what-is-the-sublime-r1109449

· http://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/the-sublime/the-romantic-sublime-r1109221

· https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/romanticism/romanticism-in-germany/a/friedrich-monk-by-the-sea

· http://www.moma.org/collection/works/79250

· For contemporary connection, try looking at religion

· Romanticism/Impressionism

· Theme: political landscape

· J. M. W. Turner, The Burning of the House of Lords and Commons (Romanticism), 1835

· Monet, The Houses of Parliament, Sunset (Impressionism), 1903

· https://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg85/gg85-46523.html

· https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2007/turner/turner_brochure.pdf

· For contemporary connection, try looking at contemporary impressionism