'Joy Of Life And The Large Bathers'

In an essay, discuss how both Matisse’s Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life) and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignoncan be simultaneously seen as inspired by and breaking free ofPaul Cézanne’s, The Large Bathers. Refer to specific visual references in your discussion.

The Large Brothers finished in 1906 made by Paul Cezanne, is a post-impressionism painting, which looks more like a sketched painting with a lot of unfinished canvas showing through. It appears to be fresco and flat. The women seem to have elongated poses or to be formed strangely. This painting also resembles a water painting because of the blotchy painting strokes and white left on the canvas. Paul Cezanne’s seems to use a lot of cold blues, and pasty skin colors.

Picassos 1907, a painting of a brothel, had a lack of light and shadow, a very geometric style to it called cubism. Picasso made this painting to show aggression towards Matisses painting, “The Joy of Life,” I think the reason For this aggression, was because Picasso did not feel that an orgy, basically painted in Matisses painting really was the Joy of life, which is the name of the orgy like painting of Matisses. Picasso turns the “orgy” into a more strange and dangerous feel in his painting, giving the women a blank expression, with scary colors. I feel that Picasso wanted to show that promiscuity is a rather dangerous thing.
They look as though they are drying out in the sun after bathing. The painting uses bright yellows and oranges which give you the feeling that you can almost feel the sun these women are enjoying. The one difference in this painting from the others, are the inclusion of men in the painting, like an outdoor brothel, or