She is depicted seated, face forward on an armchair. Her gaze is directly focused on the viewer, rare for Matisse's handling of composition and space. "The painting is a direct reference to Picasso's style and very unusual for Matisse. Only a handful of his works have the model in a frontal pose strongly directed at the viewer. He rarely frontalizes his models. The painting has a sort of three-dimensional quality about it, as Henriette leans her head on her hand, the reversal of the cloth, half green and half red, this also occurs in the armchair and her face. The shadows in her face provokes both frontal and profile views of Henriette, a technique of Picasso's(Flam).
His technique dictates that each color plane plays a specific part in the completion and unification of the painting. His repetition of color and shapes serves to unify the painting. In the painting, he repeats his red four times, with a lighter shade in the upper left hand corner. Also, Matisse's uses Picasso's traditional clashing colors, and black to modulate form and space. He also repeats the black in several areas, pushing and pulling Henriette's clothing, exposed arm, and face, back and forth in space. Matisse also borrows Picasso's exploration of primitive and Iberian art in his modulation of Henriette's masklike face. .
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).
By 1905, Matisse had become notorious. ... Nobody less like a "wild beast" than the meditative Matisse could be imagined. ... Picasso, with whom he exchanged paintings in 1907, must have acted as an additional spur. ... And as if in response to Picasso's challenge, Matisse embarked in 1908 on an annus mirabilis of his own. ... And Matisse has charged all the bodies with a coiled vigour. ...
Pablo Picasso In this paper I am going to talk about Pablo Picasso a famous Artist. Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. ... Pablo Picasso was considering being the most famous artist in the late 30's. ... Her name is Lola Picasso. ... There also was an article about Matisse and Picasso. ...
The term cubism acquired its name from the comments made by painter, Henri Matisse and critic Louis Vauxcelles, who described Georges Braque's 1908 work "Houses at L'Estaque" as resembling a bunch of cubes. ... Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain, in 1881. ... Picasso's personal style began to form from 1901 to 1904. ... While in Paris, he resided next to Pablo Picasso, and became good friends with him. ... He worked directly with Picasso and Braque until the outbreak of World War I. ...
The term cubism acquired its name from the comments made by painter, Henri Matisse and critic Louis Vauxcelles, who described Georges Braque's 1908 work "Houses at L'Estaque" as resembling a bunch of cubes. ... Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain, in 1881. ... Picasso's personal style began to form from 1901 to 1904. ... While in Paris, he resided next to Pablo Picasso, and became good friends with him. ... He worked directly with Picasso and Braque until the outbreak of World War I. ...
The Guernica uses its images as a language with Picasso playing narrator the story unveils. ... Picasso used this to tell us the truth. ... They represented a new reality in paintings that depicted radically fragmented objects in multiple views" -Pioch Cubism gained it name from an art critic by the name of Luis Vauxcelles after Matisse described paintings as consisting of little cubes. ... It sets itself apart from the norm of Picasso's cubism. ... I feel Picasso's imagery is the only way the message holds true significance. ...
PABLO PICASSO Pablo Picasso was born in the late evening of October 25, 1881 in the poor town of Malaga, on the southern coast of Spain (Chew 1). ... Bit by bit, paintings were being sold and soon his art studio attracted artists such as Matisse, Braque, Apollinaire, and Gertrude Stein. ... Pablo Ruiz Picasso died in his bed in France on April 1973. ... (1) It is clear that Pablo Picasso was the most prominent artist of the twentieth century. ... In Fabre's book, Picasso, he describes Pablo's art in that it " always reflects his experiences; it is much more a diary as i...
Africans have inspired many people to change their way of thinking about art. People before being introduced to African arts thought that the end product had to portray the object exactly as it was in the real world. When people began exploring African art they became fascinated with the way tha...
Cubism is an art form derived from modernism and said to be invented by Pablo Picasso who invented a new style of painting, focusing mainly on line rather than color. Picassos" art changed radically around 1907, when he decided to incorporate some stylistic elements of African sculpture into his painting. Picassos" Les Demoiselles D"Arignon does violence to the human form by means of radical simplifications, arbitrary and harsh color combinations, and extreme distortions of human anatomy and proportions. ... Henri Matisses" Red Room defines Fauvism. Matisses" manner of depiction of middl...
