Write a 500 word minimum Critique/Compare/Contrast paper.
1st: Describe the two paintings in detail so that your readers can easily visualize them without actually seeing them. Explain how the perspective, technique, and compositional features of each painting help create contrasting rhetorical effects. In your analysis, focus on two or three specific points of contrast. Support your analysis by referring to specific details from each painting.
Give your essay a thesis and a clear, logical organization. Your first paragraph should start with a strong lead, provide any necessary background information, and end with a clear thesis statement.
2nd: Analyse how the work is organized as a complete composition. Consider how the work is constructed or planned. Identify some of the points of emphasis in the work.
If the work has subjects or characters, what are the relationships between or among them.
3rd: Compare and contrast similarities and differences between this two pieces in four paragraph (Introductory paragraph: descriiption, Body of essay: analysis, conclusion or summary.
Be sure to discuss how each artist applied certain elements and principles of art, that have been covered in class.
Additionally, you should include their use of mediums (substance used to paint the picture) and how to they chose to represent their subject .
Study a “short biography of each artist”.to get better understanding of their artwork
Cite references at the end of the paper and PROOFREAD for grammatical errors. Artwork titles should always be either italicized or in quotes.
“Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe” 1889 by Vincent Van Gogh
“Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace” 1940 by Frida Kahlo.
If you would rather go to the Columbia Museum of Art and pick your own 2 artworks, that would be fine too.
