This week, we will time travel from 19th century, from Impressionism to Fauvism and Cubism in 20th century. Interestingly, all while looking at seemingly the same painting context series produced by different artists. But the subject was not new. We could have admired naked people, even beautiful women in many artworks since Renaissance period. However, let see why Matisse and Picasso paintings can be simultaneously seen as inspired by and breaking free of Paul Cézanne’s The Large Bathers.
The Large Bathers (Cézanne, 1898-1905) and “Le Bonheur de Vivre” (Joy of Life) (Matisse, 1906)
First, if you look at the original post-Impressionist painting by Paul Cézanne, we can easily recognize how the author works with broad brushstrokes, uses mainly blue and shades of brown color. He creates the illusion of space by using recurring perspective techniques: the trees were bended as we move backward. So we can obviously feel the depth of the painting. …show more content…
And in stead of that, Matisse uses beautiful and curvy forms and wild, lively colors, which are typical style of Fauvism. There are certain similarities in the context but it is a different technique and style. And we can easily notice the discrepancy in proportion of women figures which are depicted at the center of the painting. They are actually painted in smaller scale comparing to the ones in the front and sides. This was Matisse’s own invention to introduce unique perspective and space of objects on canvas at the land’s breaking point – another significant difference between these
The Large Bathers (Cézanne, 1898-1905) and “Le Bonheur de Vivre” (Joy of Life) (Matisse, 1906)
First, if you look at the original post-Impressionist painting by Paul Cézanne, we can easily recognize how the author works with broad brushstrokes, uses mainly blue and shades of brown color. He creates the illusion of space by using recurring perspective techniques: the trees were bended as we move backward. So we can obviously feel the depth of the painting. …show more content…
And in stead of that, Matisse uses beautiful and curvy forms and wild, lively colors, which are typical style of Fauvism. There are certain similarities in the context but it is a different technique and style. And we can easily notice the discrepancy in proportion of women figures which are depicted at the center of the painting. They are actually painted in smaller scale comparing to the ones in the front and sides. This was Matisse’s own invention to introduce unique perspective and space of objects on canvas at the land’s breaking point – another significant difference between these