Jean-Leon Gerome Comparison

In this essay, a visual analysis of the difference and similarities between two Western art paintings and how the artists' use of composition, outline, mimetic, intrinsic and other elements of design bring about its visual effects. The paintings are a colorful representation what seem to be high ranking soldiers in uniform. The first painting named Bashi-Bazouk of a soldier in a turning manner is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art is by the artist, Jean-Leon Gerome of France. Gerome created an oil base painting on a 31 3/4 x 26-inch canvas in 1868 and completed it in 1869. The artist Gerome makes the viewer observe the composition at eye level in a triangular manner emphasizing the soldier from the waist up. The second painting named St. Maurice is a soldier facing front in full uniform is on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art by the artist name Lucas Cranach of Germany.
In the Gerome work, the use lines in a vertical angle on the head gear flow onto the soldier's jacket. Whereas Cranach's use of edge line on the soldier's headgear is more in a horizontal angle blending into the background horizon. Cranach use of white paint in a circular motion on top of the soldier's headgear mimics clouds which blend into the blue sky background. In Gerome's work, the overall line is a triangle where the headgear is slim on top and widens by having the soldier with his arms partly spread as if he is turning around, controls how the artist wants the audience to view the painting. Cranach work is entirely different where the overall line is a V shape, where on top of the headgear is in a horizontal angle making the to look horizontally at the upper part of the painting before looking vertically at the soldier's narrow