Assignment Instructions/ Description
For Milestone Two, you will compose a rough draft of Sections I–IV of the final project. Provide as many details as possible, addressing each of the following major headings: Introduction, Visual and Historical Analysis, and Comparative Analysis.In addition, address the Parallels section by introducing a third creative work and explaining how that work parallels the relationship between the two pieces previously selected.This third work could be a specific contemporary work belonging to any genre of the arts or even a contemporary social construct such as reality television or social media. For example, you could consider the presentation of self as a relevant and recurring theme on Facebook today. Your conclusion (Section V) will not be included in thisrough draft.You will add the conclusion to your final comparative art analysis essay. Prompt: Apply the feedback you receivedforMilestone Onetoform a thorough introduction,and compose arough draftof
Sections I–IVyour comparative art analysis essay.
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.
A. 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.Autmn Rhythm, 1950ThThe Entombment of Christ, 1602
B. What is your main argument/thesis statement about the relationship between your selected works and their shared theme?
II. Visual and Historical Analysis
This section will provide a visual and historical analysis in which you will analyze the physical characteristics in each work as well as the connectionsof each work to its historical and cultural context.
A. Explain how each of your two selected works reflects the social or cultural identity of its day. Support your response with examples. B. What influence have your two selected works had in the shaping of social or cultural identities?
Autmn Rhythm, 1950The Art of the 1950’s era can culturally be summed up as battle between Communism and Capitalism. From one persective, Soviet Union and other communist regimes of the East tended to show a lack of understanding for art practices of Modernism, interpreting non-representative forms of art as incomprehensible for the working class people. Conversly the government of United States, through funding and organization, directly supported rise of abstract art to show progressive and liberating character of capitalist society. Thus creating a wealth of Expressionismin the culture at large of the West. The World War had an overwelmng affect of the social order and cultural norms during and following the War.
The Entombment of Christ, 1602The work Caravaggio’s Naturalismwas heavily influneced by the culture created by the Catholic Counter-Reformation art, purposly that ordinary people could understand and be inspired.Baroqueliterally means irregulaly shaped. In its most typical manifestations, Baroque painting is characterized by great drama, rich, deep color, and intense light and dark shadows. The cultral of that time was heavily dramatic and intense. It is hard to say whether or not the culture was influneced by the Renissance or that the Renissance art influnced the cultual norms.
C. What influence have your two selected works had on a modern or contemporary expression of the identified shared theme? Support your response with examples.
III. Comparative AnalysisIn this section, you will compare andcontrast your two selected works.
A. What formal characteristics are similar between the two works? a. What characteristics are different? b. Be sure to reference specific aspects of each work.
B. How did each respective culture’s traditions and ideologies influence the two works you have selected? a. Be sure to use examples to support your response.
C. How does each work represent its particular social, historical, and cultural climate? a. Be sure to use examples to support your response.
IV. Parallels
In this section, you will introduce a third creative work and explain how that work parallels the relationship between the two works previously selected.A. How do the shared historical themes and settings tie your two previously selected works to your work from popular culture? B. Discuss how the theme is still relevant today, utilizing the popular culture work you selected to support your response.
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