Henri Matisse

Germany after the Grate War was devastated. They were blamed for the war and had to sign the Peace Treaty of Versailles in 1919. The French wanted protection and repayments for what they suffered and so did England, USA and Italy. Many historians knew that this unfair treaty could produce another war yet as we know no one listened. Germany paid off their Versailles debt in 2010 and still managed to be one of the strongest countries in Europa as of today. Artist in Germany…

Paul Gauguin is an artist whose usage of colors allows the viewers to experience dramatic changes. Unrealistic and implausible as colors may seem, he simply painted the colors reflected in his eyes, something that had been his philosophy of life. Gauguin was a leading French Post-Impressionist, who was not well appreciated until after his death. He was a pioneer in the Symbolist art movement of the early 1900s in France. Fauvism and Expressionism are advanced stages that were set from Gauguin’s…

Paul Cézanne’s painting, The Large Bathers, has influenced many artists, particularly those that include nude figures in their work. This essay will describe how two of those artists in particular, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, have been inspired by and broken free of this particular Cézanne painting; their works to be discussed are Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life) and Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, respectively. Flam (2012) described The Large Bathers as having no emotion, nor having a polished…

Many pieces of art were looted during the holocaust by Hitler and the Nazis. Later, men were sent out to find all of the missing art. These men were named the Monuments Men. Many of the art stolen were paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Henri Matisse, while other pieces of art that were stolen were sculptors. But Hitler's main reason for stealing art was for an idea he had. Hitler had an idea that required a lot of famous art. It was rumored that he was going to build a “super museum”…

Each pose expresses a different emotion and was based off from another piece called Medical Student, Sailor, and Five Nudes in a Bordello. 8. 1907, Henri, Robert, Eva Green, American, Ashcan. TXT- This painting has little forms of Impressionism because of the texture quality in the face appears to be rough with the brushstrokes. Using a sloppy palette helps create a distinguished subject to describe…

life. It is called The Large Bathers, and the title reflects the work of art, since it is of women who are bathing that look large. (“Bathers”, 2015) One can argue that Picasso and Matisse took this concept and made their own works that both reflect the work by Cezanne and also veer away from it. Both Picasso and Matisse made similar work but put their own ideas into the work. The art styles and forms represent this. First we should examine The Large Bathers more closely. It is less erotic…

Q.1.) How did Picasso and Matisse differ in their views about the purpose of art? How did their styles differ? Which works best exemplify their different styles? A.1.) First with Pablo Picasso, he once said, “the purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off your souls". From his famous quote, we can gather that our lives require day by day measurements of art similar to how our body needs a clean and healthy bathe to remain perfect and sound. In other word, art is the essential request…

works of Renoir, such as Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise and Two Sisters on the Terrace, as well as those of Paul Cézanne Bathers, Basket of apples, and Madame Cézanne in a yellow Chair, are in the collection. In the Moulin rouge and the Circus, Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec are other stellar works, as well as the works of Seurat Late Sunday on the island of the Grande Jatte and Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street rainy…

emotional content. Artists of this movement retracted themselves from European customs of painting to produce a noticeably American kind of art, which both acknowledged and confronted the supremacy of early 20th century titans such as Pablo Picasso and Henri…

have been made as a result of European influence. On the other hand, Henry Ling Roth, Director of the Bankfield Museum in Halifax said that they were only of African origin alone. On the twentieth century, the famous artist such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Constantin Brancusi used the African art for formal experiments and expressive effects. There were a lot of African people who tried to give a good image about Africa. Edward Wilmot Blyden worked with British individuals and…