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Art can be described as an imprint of a culture's history, highlighting its important historical moments, key leaders, and symbolic figures. Interactions between different cultures influence the art of each designated culture. The connection between the Egyptian funerary art, The Fowling Scene, and the Minoan Toreador Fresco is one instance of this interaction that underlines the influence of one culture on another, presenting some similarities and differences characteristics. There are many differences in the artists' approaches to compositions and form mostly in the depiction of human figures. There are also certain aspects of the cultures that produced them that help explain those differences.

The Toreador Fresco has many different composition aspects that differ from the Egyptian Fowling Scene. The arrangements of objects and balance in the artwork differ in how the Fowling Scene is divided with animals and nature on one side. And on the other, there are what seem to be hieroglyphics in the background. Whereas, in the Minoan Toreador Fresco, the artworks is balanced out equally with two women on the side cheering with a man in the middle with a bull. The artist shows balance with its arrangement of objects in the artwork. In both artworks, they both show similarity in how they have little to no negative space. They both have the spaces covered with items to the point that there is barely any negative space.

The aspects of form in both artworks differ greatly from depiction of human figures to use of line or color. In the Fowling scene, the Egyptian artist showed a composite view with an open figure for the pharaoh. With their use of lines, the artwork is two-dimensional on surface with a ground line. The artists caught the artwork in a still image. Meaning the objects aren't in movement and are stuck to one spot. On the other hand, the Minoans had no ground line in their artwork catching the objects in action making it seem like the objects are floating in mid-air. In the Toreador Fresco, human figures are more fluid in their movement and are wasp-waisted. In usage of colors, the Egyptians tend to use more vivid colors. The men and women are also the same color; whereas the Minoans use simpler and fewer colors having to differentiate men and women also by color. Men tend to be in a darker color since they are the ones working outside the house. And women are in light, pale color skin because they work and do chores inside the house. The Minoans' artwork didn't show any hierarchical scale like the Egyptians did. The pharaohs are usually bigger than the other humans because he is higher on the scale than the others. And also notice how the pharaoh and all other objects in the artwork are stiff with static poses as to the depiction of movement. In the