Compare How Picasso And Matisse's Use Of Colour Red

How do artists manipulate colour to convey mood?
With specific reference to the work of Picasso and Matisse.

I have always been interested in how artists manipulate the mood and atmosphere of an image using colour. When on a visit to London I visited the National Gallery and Tate modern. Whilst I was walking around the National Gallery I was influenced by Van Gogh 's use of colour on inanimate object and how he brought them to live using colour. When viewing Van Goghs Chair the colours left me with an Isolated, lonely feeling. Van Goghs paintings sparked my interest in colour and how it can affect an audience. Although I was inspired by Van Gogh 's work, visiting Tate Modern helped me specify my work to the human figure. On this visit I was captivated by Picasso 's Weeping Woman. Picasso 's use of colour makes the audience feel sympathetic for a woman they don 't even know, this idea manipulating the viewers emotions and making an image relatable through colour has inspired me to focus my question around the human figure. Through research how artists use colour to convey mood, I came across the
I looked at his self portrait called In a Striped T-shirt, I chose this image as Matisse highlights the features on his face using greens and browns. Matisses use of the colour green compliments the red running through his shirt, this makes the viewer feel comfortable as the are colours you would expect to see together. Where he puts colous that compliment each other together he also uses inting if a mixture of blue, yellow and black, these colours juxtapose the colours on the face as colours that often class. The background of the pathey are darker and don’t compliment each other. I feel that Matisse chose these unconventional colours to challenge and confuse the viewer. The colours in the background add a dark, gloomy and cold atmosphere to the