Common History: Dance by artist Michael Craig-Martin is an acrylic painting on canvas. It measures ten feet tall by seven feet wide and is hung in portrait orientation, meaning its shortest side runs parallel to the ground. This large-scale painting depicts a cup, a piano, a sandal, and bananas. The background of the composition is a solid dark green. At the top right corner of the composition there is a purple grand piano with its lid open. Within it there are orange lines representing the strings of a piano. When compared to the other objects, the piano is small and only occupies a small corner of the composition. In front of the piano and in the middle of the composition there is a large cup that occupies roughly two thirds of the height of the canvas. The outer edges of the cup are light green and the liquid inside of it is pink. This liquid reaches the top third of the cup. In front of the cup and toward the left of the composition there is a sandal. It is red with a violet insole. It is for a left foot and is angled toward the center of the composition, pointing at the cup. Directly underneath the cup is a bunch of bananas, the bananas all joined together at the stalk. The stalk is a yellow-orange while the bananas are a teal color. All the objects are painted in solid colors with black lines providing minimal details similar to illustrations used in magazines.