Comparing Matisse's Bonheur de Vivre and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon: A Visual Analysis

In an essay, discuss how both Matisse’s Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life) and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon can be simultaneously seen as inspired by and breaking free of Paul Cézanne’s, The Large Bathers. Refer to specific visual references in your discussion. Your essay should be a minimum of 400 words. Essays should be well-written and organized and contain an introduction and conclusion. Please proofread your work for spelling, syntax and grammatical errors. All sources used must be properly cited in a works cited list.

This essay discusses the similarities between the two paintings that are Matisse’s Bonheur de vivre (Joy of Life) and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles D’avignon and throws light upon the fact that these two paintings were inspired by Paul Cezanne’s The Large Bathers.

The canvas by Matisse was made up with fiat planes out of unadulterated colors, rough conflicts of essential tints, thick cantors, and twisted or deformed bodies dissolving together. Similar to the work of Cezanne, Matisse builds the landscape so that it works as a phase. Trees are visible in the sides consolidating splendid clear hues and fiercely sexual structures. Matisse's work likewise fused moving points of view, with the goal that the client relates distinctively to the canvas and is additionally required to enter the scene ("The Large Bathers, 1898-1905 by Paul Cezanne", 2017).

In case of the painting by Picasso, the artistic creation demonstrated the impact of African Art on Picasso. Here, Picasso utilized twisting of female body and geometric frame in an inventive approach to offer glorified portrayal of female magnificence. Commentators contend that the artistic creation was a response to Matisse's Bonheur De Vivre, Paul Cezanne’s the Large Bathers, Guaguin’s Statue Oviri and El Greco’s opening of the fifth sea. The work of art delineates five whores in a Brothel, in the Avignon road of Barcelona ("Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso", 2017).

Both the paintings Matisse’s Bonheur de vivre (Joy of Life) and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles D’avignon depict female nudes and are painted in primitive face. Both the paintings have concealed the identity.