Here we have two works of art from two very different eras in history. The one on the left-hand side titled "A Dancing Girl" by Muhammad Baqir is from the year 1192 AH/1778 AD and the one on the right-hand side titled "Calavera 4" by the Groupo Mondongo from the 21st century in the year 2009. In the "A Dancing Girl," the painting represents a beautiful girl with long reddish black wavy hair, posing, wearing a traditional Persian dress for a dancing girl of that time era; standing in front of a wall with a single shelf that runs the length of the painting. Baqir used different tones of greens, reds, browns, and whites to complete this picture. The girl in the work is offset a little to the right, so the artist could place the bowl of fruit …show more content…
In the waist area is a belt with white edge outlines and a pattern in the middle with two long drapes that drop down to the bottom of the dress with patterns. The skirt part of the dress is wide and has a board design that separates the top half of the dress from the lower half as, the bottom half is green with white patterns through and board of white and brown patterns at the bottom. In the foreground, the artist, use a light tannish-brown carpet with white patterns and a darker brown to show the contrast and depth of the foreground and the background. The "Calavera 4" painting made of Plasticine on wood represent a Pacman theme foreground with the reddish color tone in the front and changes to an off gray as it reaches the middle ground, and a thin blue line divides the foreground and background of the Pacman theme as the background was a wall. On the right side of the artwork, the artists place a skull offset to give the skull a three-dimensional look and underneath the skull place, a shadow to bring out the 3-D effect. The skull is a representation of a human head, but the artists use these features to incorporate several different references to history, world religion, art history, pop culture, and Philosophy into a different section