MASTERS OF MODERN ART – MATISSE AND PICASSO


Modern art is the creative world’s response to the rationalist practices and perspectives of the Industrial Age at the turn of the 20th century. Artists worked to represent their experience of the “modern” life in innovative ways, defining what exactly art should be and do for a culture.

One of the first artists to step away from traditional painting was Henri Matisse, who led Fauvism in the 1900’s. Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso emerged as masters of modern art – their art inevitably interpreted in relation to their eventful life stories. Infamous as rivals, but more contemporaries in nature, Matisse and Picasso developed a new visual language that gave birth to Fauvism and Cubism – the most popular art movements the world has seen till today.

A LOOK AT FAUVISM AND MATISSE
“To copy the objects in a still life is nothing. One must render the emotions they awaken.”

– Henri Matisse

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