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.
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 connections of
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?
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 Analysis
In this section, you will compare and contrast your two selected works.
A. What formal characteristics are similar between the two works? What characteristics are different? 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? Be sure to use examples to support your
response.
C. How does each work represent its particular social, historical, and cultural climate? 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?

my two art works are the oxbow from thomas cole and olive trees by van gogh