Prompt 3

The main difference that I find when comparing the two William Penn paintings are the different genres. They are telling the same exact story and have two very different styles. The use of light, colors, people and details suggest different genres. The first painting by Edward Hicks was painted almost 100 years after the second painting. It has more of a folklore genre. It has deep, richer colors and the details are less defined and are more abstract. The bodies and faces are bigger and less real looking. The second painting by Benjamin West is more Romantic. The coloring is lighter and the light is brighter. There is more detail to the picture. The people are more real looking. It has the romantic haziness to it.
The two paintings are also flipped in arrangement. As you look from left to right, the first painting has the Native Americans first, followed by the Americans and then the open ocean. The second painting is the opposite with the ocean, then the Americans, and lastly the Native Americans. The first painting may show the Native Americans importance by showing them first. However, we also get a sense that they are being confined, or trapped, into the corner of the painting. The second painting shows the Native Americans as more free.
Some common things that the two paintings have are the subjects. In both we have the Native Americans and white Americans standing opposite of each other with a few of each sitting or kneeling to the other. We also have the subject of William Penn as a central figure, standing with open arms to the Natives. There is also the ocean in the background and other, non-central Native Americans and white American settlers on the sides and in the background. The both show the vulnerability of the Native Americans by painting them naked versus the fully clothed white Americans. We also see the Native American woman with the child in each painting perhaps to also show the vulnerability of the Natives in their own home land.