Matisse's Bonheur De Vivre And Les Demoiselles

This work embodies the period style because it contains avant-garde geometric shapes to define the forms, colors, and interpretations that were important to the Post-Impressionists. First off, the harshness of the lines goes hand in hand with the shapes that exist in the work. The shapes tend to be simplified shapes, which demonstrates that Cezanne wanted things to appear as if they could be broken down. Cezanne utilizes an array of geometric

The era this piece most represents is the Renaissance art in the fifteenth-century Italy. It goes best with this era because of its use of nudity and shape and lighting. Its use of space of sharp edges and sculpture figures. Also the use of lighting shows an almost 3-D like image. Even though this is a print it almost seems like a picture of statues. The artist also used a sense of scale and proportion in this piece. Every statue is differently scaled from the others. The body parts on each statue did not quite fit with the other body parts. Every statue is different in size, stance, and color. Also the background behind each figure is different from the other ones, in its use of color and detail.

Despite the fact that these two paintings share analogous attributes, they also differ in many ways. According to the museum information card on Derain’s piece, the work is “expressive of

In the paper I would like to focus on a painting that is almost 120 years old, however it appears provocative even today - in the world of contemporary art, where there seems to be no room left for astonishment. What I find so special about this beautiful painting is the technique and the artist’s vision of the scenery. Even though the second half of the 19th century was the time of rebelliousness in the art world, Henri Matisse managed to find his own niche and create his own style of painting. While “Still Life with Oranges II” appears as a primitive piece of work that neglects canonic rules of proportion, shade and volume, it opens doors to the personal world of the artists, where there is a place for imagination and flirting with the audience. Bright colors and swirls of brush strokes celebrate life and create an uplifting mood, which we often under appreciate in a painting.

In Matisse's artwork, it is very similar looking to Cezanne's in content and style. The bodies of the bathers are flowing and have curvature and are well defined with boundary lines. Cezanne uses a thick dark line with color on the inside to create shadows, shapes, and form; while Matisse uses thin lines with vivid color on the outside of the lines to create shadow, form, and movement. With Matisse, there is also a purposeful inconsistency in how the colors are used. Some forms have darker colors below them, while others have these same dark colors above them. The effect is the same for

The human figures in Cezanne’s work were simple figures with a lack of details other than form that are clustered together in the forms of a pyramid and void of motion. There is also framing with the trees to center the subjects in the picture. Similar framing can be seen in Matisse’s Joy of Life with the image of trees depicting a frame in the work. The characters are similar to Cezanne in that they lack definition and movement and appear as statues. Stamberg (2009) reports that Matisse actually bought The Large Bathers and later donated it to the city of Paris.

This work embodies the period style because it contains avant-garde geometric shapes to define the forms, colors, and interpretations that were important to the Post-Impressionists. First off, the harshness of the lines goes hand in hand with the shapes that exist in the work. The shapes tend to be simplified which demonstrates that Cezanne wanted things to appear as if they could be broken down. He utilized an

I'm not a painting fan but I do love Matisse painting especially the brightness of it, compare to picasso his painting don't catch my attention that much maybe because I'm more attracted to colorful things like Matisse paintings. Maybe if picasso would it use more colorful paints in his painting it would looks different and more appealing to the human eye, now i'm not saying his paintings are not good but like i said i don't know much about painting i think that color is an important details to catch the attention of many not painting lover like me who knows.

Henry Matisse’s “Le Bonheur de Vivre” id s vividly colorful piece that depicts nude people lounging on a plain, while enjoying all the beauty that life has to offer. The painting seems scaled in an academic manner in terms of sizes of the figures, but it is “avant-garde in most other respects”, “in the way the figures appear flattened and the distortion of the spatial relations between them.” Although Mattisse paints many of the figures in a classical sort of sense, the expressiveness of his style and other spacial factors clearly show his influences from the modern art period. He expressed the emotions he wanted to convey through the incredible color scheme that he used in this piece. The meadow, sea, sky, and forest are colored in ways that

This is based on the selection of color used by each artist. Cézanne chose cooler colors, tones of blue, but the lightness of what would be the sun’s position in the sky in the upper left corner of the painting and orange-brown hints on the clouds in the distance of the center of the painting give an idea that this scene is just after sunrise. In order words, Matisse’s piece shows more intense and saturated tones of yellows, browns, reds and oranges, also on the right half of the painting shows cooler colors creating a feeling of evening shade being formed over the people in that

Although the figures may seem classical because they are structured as in they are recognizable as humans, Matisse, complicates this by using extreme colors. The subjects, the individuals laying calmly on the ground, come to life by the colors. The colors pop out of the painting which compliments the serenity of the beach theme. As Matisse reflected on his application of colors in his artwork, in 1908 in Notes Of A Painter, “My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on sensitivity, on felt experiences…I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation” (Matisse). Luxe, Calme, et Volupte is complex in the sense that Matisse is showing us something more than just these figures. By using contrasting colors next to each other and brush strokes that are not smooth or fluid, Matisse’s interpretation is not directly representational, or realistic. The color choices are specific to Matisse’s attitude while he painted Luxe, Calme, et

Cezanne was an intellectual person, creating innovative art and leading a new abstract movement. His Still Life with Basket of Apples is inconsistent when you really gather the painting, however, the piece is still complete. The colors and angles are unique and vivid and the apples look like they could roll off the page. In Mont Sainte-Victoire, he uses the perfect combination of color to represent the impression on the mountain and the landscape. He leaves out detail, and rather just brushes textured color onto the page that still create the imagery he is painting. Of these two, I prefer Mont Sainte-Victoire because I like the color and texture of the brush strokes. I have actually tried painting like this, and I had a lot of

The figures in Cézanne’s depiction of A Modern Olympia lack individualizing facial features and human emotions. In the background, the servant is bent down on her knees, as if she is trying to aid the woman lying on the couch with some unspecified task. The man gases towards her, but his empty stare is looking at nothing. The woman's expression is ambiguous. The cat that represented sexuality gone "rampant" in Manet's version is nothing more than a regular cat in Cézanne’s A Modern Olympia, he is depicted casually walking into the room. Another detail that is different about the sketch is the choice of colors Cézanne used, which are dull and muted. This again makes Cézanne’s blonde female seem lifeless and weak, unlike Manet's

He used certain elements that are similar while expanding and developing his own style. For instance, the use of the nude human body in strategic places and the portrayal of trees on each side is something that links these two pieces together. The most noticeable difference in these paintings is the different usage of colors to portray different emotions in each piece. Cezanne used warm and cool colors. Matisse on the other hand, used bright colors. Another difference that is notable in these two paintings is the level of sensuality that each convey. The nude bodies in Cezanne's piece do not portray sensuality at all. Instead, they portray tension and density. Matisse on the other hand, creates the nude figures in a wildly sensual way. Now that we have learned about some of the similarities and differences of these two paintings, let us find out how Picasso's painting was both similar and different from

Matisse was influenced by Cézanne's method of analyzing and pulling apart his subject matter. Like Paul Cézanne, Matisse believed that everything could be broken down into simple shapes and painted that way (Matisse, Bonheur de Vivre, n.d.). In Bonheur de Vivre the broken down figures accurately represent the human form and living scenery. The figures in The Large Bathers emit a feeling of calm while the scene depicted in Bonheur de Vivre is a place full of life and love and freedom. Unlike the paintings by Cézanne, Matisse's work does not depict forms that recede in the background and diminish in scale. In Bonheur de Vivre, the scale of the figures in the foreground and the middle ground is badly skewed (Matisse, Bonheur de Vivre, n.d). Matisse brought exploration of vision through space by incorporating shifting perspectives. As a result, the viewer relates differently to the painting and is required to "enter" the scene. Matisse's painting is perhaps the first canvas to actually further the elder master’s ideas.