These two art-pieces share a background of art connected to Jazz Music culture as well as a realization of color’s sensational expression of music. No introduction paragraph is needed, just a conclusion at the end. This is not a research paper.  Each pair of artworks shares a physical medium and a general subject. Your task is to analyze how your selected artists represented these common subjects, to examine how these strategies overlap/diverge, and to interpret how these strategies shape the meaning of the finished work.  You should build your interpretation around a detailed and sensitive formal analysis of the works at hand. You may also draw on class discussions and/or your readings to think about the ways that your artworks relate to other period paintings or sculptures, and the ways that they speak to the social, cultural, and/or political themes of their respective moment.  You might consider some of the following questions:   –how did your artists handle paint? Is their brushwork assertive or subtle? Do your paintings foreground the plasticity (the textural physicality) of paint? Are the visual or optical qualities of your work (color, for example) more important to your experience of them?   –how are the works composed? How does the artist arrange forms on the canvas? What sorts of visual relationships take shape between the various elements of the composition?   –To what extent do your chosen works diverge from traditional illusionistic representation? Do they employ recognizable visual symbols? In what ways do they pursue abstraction? To what ends? Do your works ask you to reflect on the medium of painting itself? Are they working to evoke other sensations or cultural forms (touch, sound, music, etc.)?   –How does the size or scale of your chosen works inflect your experience of them?   ***As you develop your interpretation, be sure to support general claims with specific formal details.   ***Try to build a nuanced interpretation of your chosen works—look for any passages of ambiguity, contradiction, or complexity that might complicate the apparent or “surface” meaning of the paintings you select.