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Matisse and Picasso. Matisse & Picasso. Each inspired a different form of rebellion against realism, one of shape, the other of color. Matisse & Picasso. Picasso, in Cubism, broke up forms to recombine them in new ways.
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Matisse & Picasso • Each inspired a different form of rebellion against realism, one of shape, the other of color.
Matisse & Picasso • Picasso, in Cubism, broke up forms to recombine them in new ways. • Matisse, not to describe form but to express feeling, launched a chromatic revolution.
Henri Matisse • 1869-1954 (85 years) • Matisse had a long career, he worked 12-14 hours a day • Matisse sought to eliminate nonessentials and retain only a subjects most fundamental qualities.
Henri Matisse • Matisse lived in trying times: countless strikes, uprisings, assassinations, and two world wars exploded around him. • Yet his paintings ignored all social or political commentary
Henri Matisse • He believed paintings should not only be beautiful but bring pleasure to the viewer. • He was a master of the sinuously curved line called an “arabesque”
Henri Matisse • In his later years he was bedridden and suffered from arthritis. • He would fasten a piece of charcoal to bamboo fishing pole to sketch huge figures above his bed.
Henri Matisse • His favorite activity during these years was to create massive cut paper collages. • These vivid collages were his most original work, the culmination of a lifetime simplifying and intensifying art
Henri Matisse • The extreme simplification of his symbols and signs was purposeful. • Childishly simple was part of Matisse’s success. “I have worked for years in order that people might say “It seems so easy to do!”
Picasso • 1881-1973 (92 years old) • Picasso led the forces of artistic innovation, shocking the world by introducing a new style and then moving on as soon as his unorthodoxy became accepted.
Picasso • Probably the most prolific Western artist ever: produced an estimated 50,000 works. • By his mid-teens he’d mastered the art of drawing with photographic accuracy.
Picasso • Blue Period: Picasso used cool indigo and cobalt blue shades. • Obsessed with scrawny blind beggars and derelicts for subject matter. • Elongated bony figures until they looked like starved El Grecos.
Picasso • Rose Period: Picasso fell in love and began to use delicate pinks and earth colors to paint circus performers.
Picasso • African Period: introduced to African masks at an art exhibit and began incorporating their motifs into his art. • Painted Demoiselles d’Avignon which is credited with singlehandedly changing the course of art.
Picasso • Demoiselles d’Avignon • Hazy on anatomy, lop-sided eyes, deformed ears, dislocated limbs. • Picasso fractured the laws perspective to depict multiple views of one scene.
Picasso • Guernica • During the Spanish Civil War the dictator had war planes drop bombs on the small town of Guernica. • 2,000 people were killed and thousands more were injured. • Enraged Picasso painted Guernica in one month. It is 25 feet wide and 11 feet high.
Picasso • Guernica • Used a black-gray palette to emphasize hopelessness • Distorted figures to evoke violence. • Jagged lines and shattered planes denote terror and confusion.
Picasso • He was inspired by Cezanne’s geometric patterns. • 1912 his “Guitar” sheet metal found object piece broke with conventional sculpture materials. • Picasso summed up his career “ I love discovering things”
