Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso

             At the late nineteen century, there are two rising stars in art field came to people’s eyes they are Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. Pablo ruiz was a Spanish painter and sculptor. He was the founder of cubism, the main representative modern western painting. He is a Spanish who had a special artistic talent when he was a kid. His father was an art teacher, which I believe influenced him a lot plus he had a stricter training on painting in Academy of Fine Arts. So he had a solid modeling ability. Magara is his hometown, which is in Spain. As a communist party member, he was the most profound contemporary western, most creative and influential artist. He and his picture is the immortal status in the world of art. As for his artwork, people usually divided by different “Period”. They are: Blue Period, Rose Period, Cubism Period and Neoclassical Period. During 1900-1903 is the so-called “Blue Period”. At that time Picasso was under very poor living conditions, influenced by Degas and Jas seal’s style of painting. He was educated in Spain, where art is full of sadness, so in this period, his artwork is filled with gloomy and darkness. But in 1906 his artwork turned into a new era, which also was the time when Picasso met Matisse, we call it “Rose Period”. At this moment, he had a better and happier life than before, so his color choice transferred into use more light pink and warm colors. Painting object also changed from beggars, emaciated children and women to sorrow buskers, jugglers, and young women. Then on the basis of Cezanne's painting in structure, he discussed and researched more, so that his artwork shows a geometrical tendency. The “Avignon girls” in 1907 was he most famous one in this period. From then on, he started to thinking about create cubism. There is no one in the world can compare with Picasso of his freedom on painting. In his whole life, he had an honest heart and innocence of creativity to remake the world with complete freedom.

            As for Henri Matisse, he was the greatest painter who is good at use color in the 20th century and the representative of fauvism. Youth Matisse studied at art school in Paris academy of fine arts in 1895, following the established painter Morrow study and affected by post-impressionist as well as incorporate the representations of the Eastern art and African art, he formed a "comprehensive simplistic style", which uphold to use simple line to create artwork. After 1906, his work used simple line drawings and the combination of color piece, formed a decorative style. He was also an outstanding sculptor and one of the pioneers of modern sculpture.