Picasso And Matisse Comparison

Modern art was born ugly. “The first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly was taking by Matisse and the 1910 Salon des Independents in Paris was described by an American critic as a drawing that was crude beyond all belief, the colour was as appalling as the subject. Which brought a shock to Henri Matisse himself by his creations, however, in the dawn of 20th century, Henri Matisse was well held in high esteem as the father of modern art, interestingly, and Pablo Picasso was as well sleeping with the same muse. When 1907 masterpiece Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was finished by Picasso, depicting five harlots with primitive masklike faces, their nakedness more symmetrical than erotic, even his early dealer Ambroise Vollard uttered out, "It's
Two of them with unlimited propensities, but one great goal". Both Matisse and Picasso possess a relationship that redirects the whole history of modern art. We were allows to look at modern art in a renewed way through both eyes of Matisse and Picasso with the same sense of innovation that captivated the artists and friends as well, and their critics were shocked, nearly a century ago. The two artists were competent in the ancients art, and both of them were looking for means to escape each other influence when they met circa 1906 in an assembly that was arranged by the American avant-garde writer and expatriate Gertrude Stein, who, along with her brother known as Leo, had audaciously initiate the collection of Matisse’s new paintings, and it happens that they were mock by nearly almost everyone else in Paris. Picasso stood firm and refused to be outshine by Matisse, and soon after viewing Le Bonheur de vivre, that’s when he set out on his journey to work on the most motivated and astonishing painting of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. And he uses a postcard of African women for models as well as primeval masks, drawing on Cézanne and Gauguin as leaders, bidding all his will to disengage the ancient and formulate the future to paint it over and