1. Matisse and Picasso

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

3. 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.

4. Henri Matisse 1869-1954 (85 years)
Matisse had a long career, he worked hours a day
Matisse sought to eliminate nonessentials and retain only a subjects most fundamental qualities.

5. Madame Matisse Madras by Henri Matisse

6. 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

7. Musique by Henri Matisse

8. 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”

9. Dance by Henri Matisse

10. 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.

11. Matisse working in bed

12. 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

13. Le Gerbe by Matisse

14. Large Scale Composition with Masks by Matisse

15. Large Scale Composition with Masks (for Scale) by Matisse

16. Blue Nude II by Matisse

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

18. Jazz by Matisse

19. Picasso
(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.

20. Portrait of his mother by Picasso

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

22. 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.

23. The Old Guitarist by Picasso

24. Self Portrait 1901 by Picasso

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

26. Acrobat and Young Harlequin by Picasso

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

28. Les Demoiselles D’ Avignon by Picasso

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

30. Girl Before a Mirror by Picasso

31. Portrait of Ambroise Vollard by Picasso

32. 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.

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

34. Guernica by Picasso

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

36. Guitar by Picasso