Comparative Formal Analysis; Similar on Account of Distinctions

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Comparative Formal Analysis; Similar on Account of Distinctions

The analysis of a work of art can help the viewer, and the reader of the analysis for that matter, to better understand the relationships of the physical elements of the piece. This kind of analysis can then lead the viewer or reader on the pathway of comprising a richer understanding and appreciation of the mood created through the physical criteria of form. Analyzing two works that both embody a few common characteristics can help one to understand more thoroughly not only each of the two pieces independently, but the two together, comparatively. The two pieces in discussion here are comparable in very few categories of elements, however can be analyzed in comparison to each other. A Japanese woodblock print entitled Kusano Kanpei at Totsuka and a tempera panel painting from Italy called Madonna and Child and Crucifixion are the two highly distinctive, yet surprisingly similar pieces. Although these two works range in time period, process, visual form, and individual style, they can be compared through their few common aspects; each of the two pieces is recognizably stylized to it's own highly specific time period, and both of the works create, through form, an intimate space between the piece's images and the viewer.

Each of the two works of art are from a different period in time and from different places. Kusano Kanpei at Totsuka by Utagawa Kunisada dates from between 1786 and 1865 as part of a series of different prints. This piece from Japan falls in the Edo period, however the Master of the Straus Madonna's Mother and Child and Crucifixion, dating to 1380 falls within the Italian Gothic period. Therefore, there lies approximately a four hundred year ...

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... Color supports this mood in both works. Color is harmonious in both, and mostly subdued with the exception of a few vibrant reds and blues and a soft peach tone in both. However, color itself is not similar, as the woodblock print's color is more diluted and the panel's more dense, but the support given by color to the composition is helping to achieve remarkably similar moods.

The two pieces of work, the Italian Madonna and Child and Crucifixion by the Master of the Straus Madonna and the Kusano Kanpei at Totsuka by Utagawa Kunisada are most definitely similar on account of distinctions. Rather than two works with mostly different, distinct formal aspects conveying two different moods, these two pieces convey extremely distinct similar moods. This is achieved through a few supporting formal continuities between the two and of course, the skill of the artists.

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