Matisse’s Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life) and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon are painting that are very brilliantly done. Both of Matisse’s and Picasso’s works of art seem to be inspired by Paul Cezanne’s The Large Bathers which is a painting with nudity and bright colors that was painted and push art to a new level. The painting were all done in an aggressive way with a lot of colors and seem to be radical art style for that time in art and in the world when people just did not behave in this fashion or manner. All three of these painting are done in the Fauvism art style. The three painting all have figures that are still and in motion with Matisse’s and Picasso’s being more expressive with emotion and having beautiful landscape that …show more content…
Matisse’s painting is a large-scale painting on oil canvas. It depicts nude figures in different positions in a somewhat erotic nature. This painting is done in bright colors and bold distinctive brush work. In this painting Matisse does “emphasize the expressive potential of color, employing it arbitrarily, not based on an object’s natural appearance” (Spivey n. d.). I think that Matisse was inspired my Paul Cezanne’s painting The Large Bathers because his painting has nudity and bold color and is painted in the same art …show more content…
The Matisse and Picasso painting were done to push the line of creatively and art boundary in ways that had never been done before. Matisse’s and Picasso’s painting were more expressive than The Large Bathers and seem to have more of an artistic edge to them because they were daring and bold like they were trying to break free from his mode of what a nude painting should look like. Picasso’s painting Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon has been called a “violent pornography” because of it aggressive style and depict of women and use to colors like that blue (Harris & Zucker n.