Henri Matisse And Vincent Van Gogh Analysis

Henri Matisse and Vincent Van Gogh were great artists that contributed to their art styles overwhelmingly. The first one, Matisse, was a French artist known his talented way of using color and his original style of draughtsman ship. He is primarily known as a painter, but also excelled in being a sculptor. Along the likes of Picasso and Duchamp, Matisse is known as one of the artists that helped to revolutionize plastic arts. During his lifetime, he was called by many as a Fauvre, but in his later years he began to be considered more in the realm of the classical French style of painting. On the other hand, Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch artist that belonged to the Dutch style of post-impressionism. He did several types of works like portraits,

Several critics consider this painting one of Matisse’s best and most influential works. It is a Fauvist painting that has no central focal point and left Matisse heavily unsatisfied which lead him to change the color from blue to red, it was supposed to be all blue rather than red. It is believed that the painting is not a dining room as it seems actually it is Matisse’s own studio, at lest that was how he saw it. This painting doesn’t include his usual style of painting, thick brush marks; instead it has flat areas of color all around. The painting clearly depicts a maid arraigning fruit in a room that has a great deal of red all around. Both the tablecloth and the wallpaper are the same color and texture. The painting on the wall is presumed to be one of his artworks. The empty chair in front of the painting is used by the artist to represent his “hidden presence”. The painting is considered to be a flat painting because there is no real story, just a hidden image in the artist’s head. He tries to point this out, wants us to look into the artist’s head by placing parts of his face like his eyes in the flowers. This painting is considered to be one of Matisse’s most famous art works (Rivers)