Henri Matisse's Painting Comparison

Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt, has similarities and differences. They both have the same subject matter but different in media. Degas and Cassatt both used gesture lines sketch like drawing. Both of the painters used pastel on paper. In addition, they used chalks of medium in the painting.

Pablo Picasso and Goya were both very famous artists and were part of the cubist movement. They both have a very different style of painting but they do have similarities in some of their paintings. For example, Picasso's Guernica and Goya's Third of May are similar in ways.

First I want to talk about the differences. The first difference that I noticed was the different techniques that each artist used to create the painting. Van Gogh uses thicker brush strokes it looks like whereas Georges Seurat is much more refined and has much more distinct outlines. After further research I found that Seurat used the pointillism method, which is kind of similar to what Van Gogh did but allows for more detail, which I think is very important for Seurat because of the different people he is attempting to draw. Another difference that I noticed is the different colors that were used in the two paintings. Van Gogh’s painting has much more vibrant and vivid colors as compared to Seurat’s painting which has colors that seem flatter to me and don’t pop out at you near as much. This makes different objects in Seurat’s painting almost seem to blend in with the background whereas van Gogh’s painting makes everything pop out and stand on its own. I do think that Seurat does an excellent job of painting shadows where van Gogh does not have any shadows in his painting. I think the shadows in Seurat’s painting bring perception and make the painting more dynamic, whereas van Gogh’s painting uses the big tree, or whatever it is in the front, to bring more perception to the painting. I like this because I think van Gogh’s approach is much more conventional for the time whereas Seurat’s strategy is a

Seurat and Monet both approach the same ideas and concepts to create too very separate and unique works that actually have a lot in common in subject matter as well as both historically and stylistically. Overall, both paintings, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat and La Grenouillère by Claude Monet, are excellent

I think Picasso was portraying that real beauty comes from the ones you least expect. Although the princess was, well a princess, she could only become beautiful with the help of her maids, if her maids weren’t there then she wouldn’t be pretty. Although her maids aren’t pretty that doesn’t mean that true beauty comes from the outside, and that's what I think picasso was trying to portray.

Pablo Picasso’s variation of “Las Meninas” by Diego Velazquez differs from the original. In Picasso’s “Las Meninas” The princess takes up most of the canvas. The princess is also emphasized very much compared

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

Girl before a Mirror, an oil on canvas painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, shows two sides of a girl; one which is illustrated with a dark tone and one with a vibrant colorful tone. This painting is bright; colors are at full intensity and are arranged next to their complements, producing a visual relationship between shape and form. Forms are used to draw the viewer’s eye across the canvas where circular shapes, repeating throughout the work, are compensated by the pattern of diagonal lines of the background. The viewer observes the girl’s profile and full frontal image, looking into a mirror and noticing a different image of herself. In order to achieve this effect, Picasso uses a range of formal elements that highlight the

Picasso is more spontaneous application of color, there is less uniformity. In Matisse there are more color schemes, the composition is more rigid, even if it's not more descriptive; it is a still life more organized, with more degree of stability. Unlike nudes of Picasso, the nudes of Matisse with safety on the line and in the tone, makes to describe him as a flat painter. Matisse made a complex image, winning the back of the woman through the looking glass with a few simple strokes, spontaneous, but courteous Matisse achieved the creation of a space, bed, and room which is no longer description to be magic and especially calligraphic rhythm. If Picasso paraphrased other artists, Matisse makes metaphor from other poems, as the mirror

During his ‘Dutch’ period, Van Gogh’s subject matter was primarily focused on the lifestyle of the poor and the bible (Dubecky). In his ‘French’ period, Van Gogh had begun to shift his focus to drawing nude figures and portraits. Monet, conversely, liked to paint his subject matters in series. He would paint “the same subject at different times of the day in different lights” (Brown 1536). Some series that he painted included water lilies, bridges, and haystacks. Something that Van Gogh and Monet both really took passion in is basing their art on their life experiences. They both painted their surroundings such as landscapes, seascapes, and people around them. Van Gogh would also draw still lifes of food and would paint paintings based on his emotions during his recovered bouts of mental illness.

The painting shows five women naked with flat figures, disintegrated planes and faces, inspired by African masks. The compacted space the figures occupy appears to project forward in jagged shards; a fiercely pointed slice of melon in the still life of fruit at the bottom of the composition teeters on an impossibly upturned table top. In this painting, Picasso makes a radical departure from traditional European painting by adaptation of Primitivism and abandonment of perspective in goodwill of a level two-dimensional picture of a plane.

What do Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, and Wassily Kandinsky, three major European artists,  have in common? They were all influenced by the Norwegian post-impressionist painter, Edvard Munch, who worked between the 1880s and the 1940s (1). Munch painted the famous (and very widely known) The Scream work in 1893 and it would later become a major influence to those who created art across the world. Various artists gained inspiration from Munch, whether it was from his style of painting (mainly his brushstrokes), his abstracted forms, or his emotional take on life as a whole. Munch, who was born in 1863, did not have a great early life in any way, shape, or form.. Munch’s mother passed away in 1868 from tuberculosis and he, along with his siblings, were raised by his mentally ill father (1). Since his father was mentally ill, how his father treated him and his siblings would eventually impact how his works appeared in nature. A few decades later, in 1885, Munch traveled to Paris and was influenced by the Impressionist artists around during that time (1). In 1908, while still in Paris, Munch had a major mental breakdown and would be admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Copenhagen (2). During his stay in the hospital, he would create Alpha and Omega, a series of lithographs that would illustrate his feelings toward his friends and enemies (2). Munch would continue to work in Norway, creating various works depicting the normal lives of farmers and landscapes, until he passed away at

Additionally, in the novel, Both Brittain’s fiancé Roland and her brother Edward postpone their studies at Oxford University in order to enlist in the war.  Like Vera, Roland and Edward enlistment in the war seems directly affected by this recruitment of men into the armed forces.  Many of the propaganda produced the targeted men were embedded with ideas about responsibility, protection, shame. For instance, Savile Lumley's famous poster of 1915 portrayed two young children asking their father about his military involvement after the war: ‘Daddy, what did you do in the Great War?’ (Welch 2013). Savile Lumley’s poster and others like it, blackmailed fathers and made people feel shame if they were not actively involved in the war.  In the novel,

Picasso was working on Gertrude’s portrait (Fig. 2) at the time he and Matisse first met. The sensation Matisse’s painting created, made it difficult for Picasso to

Even though Pablo Picasso was a leading figure in the art movement of Cubism, and Franz Marc was a leading figure in the art movement of German Expressionism, more specifically the Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). Deer in the Forest 1 by Franz Marc represents Cubism and Reclining Figure by Pablo Picasso represents German Expressionism because of the characteristics the paintings exhibits.