Matisse was thought of as an old man, done with his career at this point, a dinosaur. His conception of his work differed. “I nowadays want a certain formal perfection, and I work by concentrating my means in order to give my painting the quality of a well-executed, finished object-which is perhaps external, but that isn’t necessary to mess up some canvas when you are young, that one shouldn’t start at the beginning(Bois).” Matisse strived for the completed painting, executed in a finishe

He portrayed shallow spaces, almost relief like and he, “cannot and will not accept the paratactic organization of Matisse’s all-over space. It sets “his teeth on edge.” (Bois) “Objects must be anchored in a network of coordinates, space is boxlike and not expandable.” Picasso had always despised pure abstraction and made an effort to steer clear of it in this process.(Gottlieb)

As Matisse repeates color, Picasso also does as well as repeating circular motifs. He supplants apples from earlier paintings as her breasts and her womb. Picasso’s notion of unification instead occuring mainly through his use of color, is portrayed through his rough brushstroke over several layers of built up smooth surfaces, and his design of the composition. “An inversion exists of the overt and the hidden, the exposed profile is cool and pale and what is hidden and imagined, the unseen face is an intense yellow like the sun.”

Matisse studied decorative arts painting to flatten space. He believed that the third dimension came from the modulation of the contour. In Woman with a Veil, Henriette’s “geometrizing veil destroys the continuity of the head’s contour, creating an unexpected non-anatomical arris that splits the forehead and the swoop of the cheek-a sharp demarcation of planes that seems directly borrowed from the many Picasso’s painted in the summer of 1909 and entitled head of a woman.” “Here Matisse reaches out to cubism as efficiently as he did a decade earlier, he seeks to annex cubism without surrendering to it to expand it to complete it, renouncing at this juncture neither the coloristic violence nor the decorative patterning of his own language(Matisse Picasso).”

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Matisse’s Matisse, Matisse’s Nice, Marie-Therese Walter, Girl Mirror, Matisse Picasso, WWII Picasso, Veil Henriette’s, Matisse’s Picasso’s, Picasso’s”me Matisse, Picasso” Matisse, woman veil, primitive iberian art, decorative expressive, picasso’s girl, art world, differing views, divergent elements, girl mirror, matisse’s style, matisse’s woman veil, picasso’s girl mirror, matisse strived, iberian art,