Image Analysis II

Javerya Shahid

AR-2873-2022

1. The Grand Bathers. 1898 by Paul Cezanne.

 2. Le bonheur de vivre. 1905-6 by Henri Matisse.

3. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon 1907 by Pablo Picasso.

Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) is one of the most influential artists in the history of contemporary painting. He has
influenced artists for generations. He is generally classified as Post-Impressionist. His unique way of constructing
shapes with color and analytical approaches to nature influenced the art of cubism, fauvism, and later
generations of avant-garde artists. He began painting in his hometown of Eixen Provence in 1860 and later
studied art in Paris.1

Cezanne's painting The Grand Bathers (1898) is developed in stylish and dark tones. The landscape of the Grand
Buzzards shines in the brilliance of en plein air, harmonizing with the artist's imagination (Cezanne rarely draws
nude from his life) in this setting. The complex process of inspiration from two sources, nature and memory, is
immersed in the work of Cezanne.

Fauvism was the first avant-garde movement to flourish in France in the early 20th century. Forvian painters first
defeated both the Impressionists and the old traditional methods of perception. Her spontaneous, often
subjective reaction to nature was expressed in bold, undisguised brushstrokes and in sharp, bright colors straight
from the tube. In the summer of 1905, Henri Matisse (1869–1954) and André Derain (1880–1954) incorporated
unnatural colors and vibrant brushstrokes into their paintings, but this is not a definitive program. 2

Their leader was Mathis. Matisse reached the Fauvist style from Cezanne after previously trying various Post-
Impressionist styles. Due to these influences, he rejected the traditional 3D space and instead began to look for
a new painting space defined by the movement of the plane of color.

Cubism became one of the maximum influential visible artwork sorts of the early 20th century. It became created
with the aid of using Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) and Georges Braque (French, 1882–1963) in Paris
among 1907 and 1914. Early Cubism has been connected to Primitivism and non-Western sources. The
stylization and distortion of Picasso`s groundbreaking Les Demoiselles d`Avignon (Museum of Modern Art, New
York), painted in 1907, got here from African artwork. 3

The Cubist painters rejected the inherited idea that artwork have to replica nature, or that artists have to
undertake the conventional strategies of perspective, modeling, and foreshortening. They desired rather to
emphasize the -dimensionality of the canvas. So they decreased and fractured gadgets into geometric
bureaucracy, after which realigned those inside a shallow, alleviation like space. They extensively utilized more
than one or contrasting vantage points. 4

Matisse`s Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life) and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The women of Avignon) may
be concurrently visible as stimulated with the aid of using and breaking freed from Paul Cézanne's, “The Grand
Bathers”.

Matisse’s portray, “Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life), is an idyllic scene of reclining nudes, embracing enthusiasts
and carefree dancers. Matisse units a level very much like Cezanne. Trees planted at the edges and within side a
ways distance. The top boughs unfold aside like level curtains that appear to focus on the figures below. Picasso
has made the level smaller and extra cramped but the brown on the left and the white on the proper assemble a
comparable level that focuses the attention towards the figures.

The Grand Bathers` surroundings is unusual and beautiful - the panorama is essentially bluish, a smooth haze
wherein skies and water and flora merge and with the aid of using which the masterfully drawn figures are
delicately overcast. These summary nude ladies found in Grand Bathers provide the portray of anxiety and
1
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/paul-cezanne-bathers-les-grandes-baigneuses
2
Realism and Ideology: An Introduction to Semiotics and Cubism by Francis Frascina, Primitivism, Cubism and Abstraction. The
Early Twentieth Century. Yale University Press, New Haven and London in association with the Open University. (Page 107)

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Realism and Ideology: An Introduction to Semiotics and Cubism by Francis Frascina, Primitivism,Cubism and Abstraction. The
Early Twentieth Century. Yale University Press, New Haven and London in association with the Open University. (Page 100)

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Realism and Ideology: An Introduction to Semiotics and Cubism by Francis Frascina, Primitivism,Cubism and Abstraction. The
Early Twentieth Century. Yale University Press, New Haven and London in association with the Open University. (Page 100)
density. It is splendid amongst Cezanne`s paintings in symmetrical dimensions, as a triangular sample
organization, from the nude organization to the bushes and river.

However, the distinction is that Matisse used curves and arabesques because the shapes for the bushes after
which reflected that within side the curves of the bodies. This makes the portray appear extra sensual than
Cezanne's. He extensively utilized brilliant and colorful shades which include oranges, reds and purples. He
coupled the figures up and made it sense completely happy instead of serene or calm. Matisse is drawing from
his creativeness and his concept of pleasure much like Cezanne, however his pleasure appears extra playful. The
shades and the figures sketched are flat much like Cézanne`s bathers.

Matisse as soon as stated, “There are methods of expressing things; one is to reveal them crudely, the opposite
is to rouse them via artwork. By disposing of oneself from the literal illustration of motion one attains extra
splendor and grandeur”.5

Matisse believed he have to exactly outline the individual of the item or of the frame that he wanted to paint.
For Matisse it changed into all approximately the conception. Therefore, he saved a clean imaginative and
prescient of the entire from the beginning. For example, study one in every of Cézanne`s artwork, all is so
properly organized that irrespective of at what distance you stand or what number of figures are represented
you may constantly have the ability to differentiate every figure definitely and to recognize which limb belongs
to which frame. If there's order and readability within side the painting, it method that from the outset this
identical order and readability existed in the thoughts of the painter, or that the painter was aware in their
necessity. Limbs might also additionally go and intertwine, however within the eyes of the spectator they may
despite the fact that continue to be connected to and, assist to articulate the proper frame: all confusion has
disappeared.6

Paul Cézanne himself stressed that he painted from nature and in line with his sensations, in search of to
understand a "concord parallel to nature”. Cézanne additionally stated, “deal with nature in phrases of the
cylinder, the field and the cone”, so including weight to his characterization as a proto cubist.

Cézanne`s hobby in visible perception, his discount of paperwork to their geometric essentials, and his
acknowledgment of the anxiety among the flatness of the canvas and the illustration of the three dimensional
area changed into vital to the improvement of cubism. Cézanne attempted to look matters certainly afresh,
aiming at a kind of optical reality unmediated through pictorial conventions or interpretation. He denied
absolutely the authority of linear perspective, his paperwork has been simplified, natural coloration being applied
into discrete blocks. These factors have been seized upon through a brand new generation of painters.

According to Matisse, Expression did now no longer are living in passions sparkling in a human face or
manifested through violent movement. The whole association of his photograph is expressive: the area occupied
through the figures, the empty areas round them, the proportions, the whole lot has its share. Composition is
the artwork of arranging in an ornamental way the various factors on the painter`s command to explicit his
feelings. In a photograph each component might be seen and could play its appointed role, whether or not it's
major or secondary. Everything that isn't always beneficial within side the photograph is harmful. A paintings of
artwork have to be harmonious in its entirety: any superfluous element might update a few different vital
elements within side the thoughts of the spectator. 7

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Matisse’s “Notes of a Painter” (Page 3)
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Matisse’s “Notes of a Painter” (Page 4)

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Matisse’s “Notes of a Painter” (Page 1)
 In Cézanne`s paintings Picasso discovered a version of a way to distill the vital from nature that allows you to
gain a cohesive floor that expressed the artist's singular imaginative and prescient. Throughout Picasso's stylistic
evolution over the subsequent seven decades, he endured to borrow from and reinterpret Cézanne's artwork.

Picasso started his very own experiments with the illustration of space, shape and perception, and in 1907 he
painted Les Desmoiselles d`Avignon, usually appeared because the first cubist portray. The quick however superb
flowering of the Fauves – the `wild beasts` as they had been known as with the aid of using one appalled critic. 8

Picasso repainted it over and over, the use of primitive mask and postcards of African girls for models, drawing
on Cézanne as guide, summoning all his will to undo the beyond and invent the future. It started as a tableau
with a sailor surrounded with the aid of using 5 prostitutes, all amazed with the aid of using a scholar retaining a
cranium getting into level proper. It ended with simply the girls, their stares directed immediately out on the
viewer. As Picasso worked, he simplified, lowering the faces to crude mask, our bodies to fragmented fetishes,
imbuing the canvas with a strength each primitive and unimaginably new. None of this got here effortlessly or
quickly. Inspired with the aid of using Henri Matisse, he used brilliant and shockingly unnatural hues, even as
flattened attitude and bureaucracy made from unmixed hues implemented in blocks which may be visible as an
immediate outcome of Cézanne`s paintings. 9

All three art work are big scale art work, figurative, summary and also are research of nudes that seem like in a
level like placing in which the panorama and the figures are intertwined. The hues within side the works are
supposed to attract emotion from now no longer a real illustration of the sector round them. In Matisse`s and
Picasso's works, the lowest proper figures are crouched and their bureaucracy are confounding.

Cézanne`s super authority derived from extra than portray alone. When Matisse observed the portray, “Three
Grand Bathers” with the aid of using Cézanne, which he obtained in 1899, it changed into as though he had
been speak me of any other person. Matisse stated, “It has supported me morally at some point of the essential
moments of my inventive adventure; I even have drawn wish and staying power from it”. At the start of the
twentieth century, Cézanne supplied now no longer simply the factors of a brand new art, however the definition
of what it supposed to be an artist.

Often a dialogue arises as to the price of various processes, and their dating to one-of-a-kind temperaments. A
difference is made among painters who paintings at once from nature and people who paintings in basic terms
from imagination. Personally, I assume neither of those strategies need to be desired to the exclusion of the
other. Both can be utilized in flip with the aid of using the equal individual, both due to the fact he wishes touch
with items for you to get hold of sensations in order to excite his innovative faculty, or his sensations are already
organized. In both case he can be capable of arrive at that totality which constitutes a picture. In any occasion I
assume that you will decide the energy and strength of an artist who, after having obtained impressions at once
from the spectacle of nature, is capable of prepare his sensations to maintain his paintings within side the equal
body of thoughts on one-of-a-kind days, and to increase those sensations.

8
Realism and Ideology: An Introduction to Semiotics and Cubism by Francis Frascina, Primitivism,Cubism and Abstraction. The
Early Twentieth Century. Yale University Press, New Haven and London in association with the Open University. (Page 105)

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Realism and Ideology: An Introduction to Semiotics and Cubism by Francis Frascina, Primitivism,Cubism and Abstraction. The
Early Twentieth Century. Yale University Press, New Haven and London in association with the Open University. (Page 109)
Bibliography:

1.Matisse’s “Notes of a Painter”

2.Realism and Ideology: An Introduction to Semiotics and Cubism by Francis Frascina, Primitivism, Cubism and

Abstraction. The Early Twentieth Century. Yale University Press, New Haven and London in association with the

Open University.

3.https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/paul-cezanne-bathers-les-grandes-baigneuses