Work One: Portrait of a Lady. Rogier van der Weyden, c. 14555. Oil and tempera on wood panel, 14 1/16 x 10 5/8`. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Work 2: ZAMBEZIA, ZAMBEZIA. Wifredo Lam, 1950. Oil on canvas, 49 3/8 x43 5/8`. Solomon R Guggen

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Female Form This is focusing on comparing and contrasting the elements of line , color and composition of two artworks : Portrait of a Lady . Rogier van der Weyden , c . 1455 , and Zambezia , Zambezia , Wifredo Lam , 1950 . Both artworks are different in either elements , as well as the time periods in which they were conceived . Although the progress of change has changed the art world drastically , the female form cannot

be mistaken as the central figure in either artist 's work

Rogier 's work exhibits line through human form . This approach allows his subject to be presented in a natural form . His rather stiff approach to the gossamer fabric atop of the woman 's head , as well as the seemingly straight lines of her bodice and other clothes can be comparable to Lam 's work for both use diagonals in to attract the viewers attention to where the diagonal line ends . In the case of Rogier , the diagonal line emphasizes the woman 's face . In the case of Lam , the diagonal emphasizes the woman 's breast . This significance of the diagonal and its difference uses may be attributed to the timeframe in which each artwork was rendered : the face as being important and the breast as being important in either era 's culture . For Lam , the main difference in line is its wild application in representing the female form . Indeed , the only female parts...