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Matisse & Picasso Each inspired a different form of rebellion against realism, one of shape, the other of color.

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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.

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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.

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Madame Matisse Madras by Henri Matisse

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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

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Musique by Henri Matisse

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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

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Dance by Henri Matisse

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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.

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Matisse working in bed

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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

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Le Gerbe by Matisse

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Large Scale Composition with Masks by Matisse

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Large Scale Composition with Masks (for Scale) by Matisse

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Blue Nude II by Matisse

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Henri Matisse The extreme simplification of his symbols and signs was purposeful. Childishly simple was part of Matisses success. I have worked for years in order that people might say It seems so easy to do!

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Jazz by Matisse

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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.

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Portrait of his mother by Picasso

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Picasso Probably the most prolific Western artist ever: produced an estimated 50,000 works. By his mid-teens hed mastered the art of drawing with photographic accuracy.

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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.

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The Old Guitarist by Picasso

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Self Portrait 1901 by Picasso

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Picasso Rose Period: Picasso fell in love and began to use delicate pinks and earth colors to paint circus performers.

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Acrobat and Young Harlequin by Picasso

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Picasso African Period: introduced to African masks at an art exhibit and began incorporating their motifs into his art. Painted Demoiselles dAvignon which is credited with singlehandedly changing the course of art.

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Les Demoiselles D Avignon by Picasso

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Picasso Demoiselles dAvignon Hazy on anatomy, lop-sided eyes, deformed ears, dislocated limbs. Picasso fractured the laws perspective to depict multiple views of one scene.

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Girl Before a Mirror by Picasso

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Portrait of Ambroise Vollard by Picasso

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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.

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Picasso Guernica Used a black-gray palette to emphasize hopelessness Distorted figures to evoke violence. Jagged lines and shattered planes denote terror and confusion.

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Guernica by Picasso

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Picasso He was inspired by Cezannes geometric patterns. 1912 his Guitar sheet metal found object piece broke with conventional sculpture materials. Picasso summed up his career I love discovering things

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Guitar by Picasso