Early cubic paintings by Pablo Picasso
"Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" is one of the most popular of Picasso's cubic paintings. Cubic painting or cubism is a type of painting where the artist uses geometry to represent a subject matter from a realistic point of vew. It means "the young women of Avignon" and it is the painting of five female prostitutes from Barcelona. It was painted in 1907 being Picasso's early and one of his most famous painting. There are many forms of the painting because it constantly changed as he worked on it. The painting changed while he worked on it making background description of the painting impossible as well as the confrontational way that each of the figures were depicted in the picture. This can also be elaborated by the disjointed and angled body shapes of the figures. The painting contributed much to the art world. It became arguably the most valuable one of the century even now, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is still considered the 20th Century’s most important painting (Green, 43). This style appeals to me because it stretched beyond cubism and his legacy still lives with the artists today.
Henri Matisse’s early expressionist painting The Joy of Life was also a revolutionary painting for its own time. It is an extensive painting that depicts an Arcadian countryside that is filled with brightly colored forest, sea, sky, meadow, and populated by nude figures both in motion and at rest. The two paintings are different in the depiction of the human figure. Picasso’s depiction of the human figure was African-influenced as opposed to Henri Matisse’s (Roe, 16). Expressionism, initially poetry and painting, was a modernist movement that originated in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. The paintings of the time used exaggeration and distortion for emotional effect. Fauvist vision refers to a situation when colors rule supreme in a piece of art. It refers to the arts of pure color. Henri Matisse’s early expressionist painting The Joy of Life was very significant to the world of art. It sparked the use of color to as the basis for decorative, expressive and monumental paintings (Werth, 29). The art has a soothing, calming influence on the mind. The art was important in the endorsement of the pure and undulated color in modern art. For this reason, Henri Matisse’s style appeals to me.
Works Cited
Green, Christopher. Picasso's Les Demoiselles D'avignon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Print.
Roe, Sue. In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art. , 2016. Print.
Werth, Margaret. The Joy of Life: The Idyllic in French Art, Circa 1900. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Print.
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