Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Essays

In this essay I will describe how the works of art -‘Bonheur de Vivre’ by Henry Matisse and’ Les Demoiselles d’Avignon’ by Pablo Picasso, both were influenced by and how they moved away from the painting ‘The Large Bathers’ by Paul Cezanne. Both Picasso and Matisse were prominent artists. Pablo Picasso primarily delved into the cubism and surrealism (“Art Periods”, 2019). Henry Matisse generally created artworks in the vein of fauvism and modernism (“Henry Matisse”, 2019). ‘The Large Bathers’ by...

In the history of art, we can always see that the artists get inspiration from the artwork by other artists to re-create their artworks. It shows that different people got different perspective when looking at the same thing and artist would like to express their perspective by creation of artwork. In this essay, we are going to discuss two artwork ‘Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life)’ by Matisse and ‘Les Demoiselles d’Avignon’ by Picasso are inspired by ‘The Large Bathers’...

Pablo Picasso, born in 1881 in Malaga, Spain wanted to develop a new way of discerning that reflected the modern age, and cubism is how he achieved this goal. Throughout his life he painted a numerous amount of cubism paintings and one of the main ones was called as ‘Les Demoiselles d’Avignon’. This painting we are going to discuss to explain cubism and what it is all about. Picasso wanted to focus on the difference between a painting and reality....