Art Analysis Essay

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Throughout this study of art history, we realized that the different styles and movements that existed in this area are either a resurrection of an old style with improvements or a revolt against a style to bring other forms and techniques of realization or still a style sponsored by the needs of the patrons even the great events of that time. There is always a basis for inspiration. These paintings that are proposed to our analysis this week don’t escape this reality. We will try to understand the different influences considering certain analyzes already produced on these paintings.

At the outset, we should consider the year of publication of each of these paintings: First, if Henri Matisse's happiness of life is realized between the months of October 1905 and the month of March 1906 and Les Demoiselles d ' Avignon by Pablo Picasso was made in 1907, while the painting of the famous painter Paul Cezanne was conceived between 1898 and 1905. There is no doubt that this painting preceded them. …show more content…

If Picasso chose this subject, he probably had a source of inspiration. Some think that he wanted to start from this work of Cézanne to do something that would revolutionize modern art.

According to the art historian, the collector and author of The Cubist Epoch, Douglas Cooper quoted in Wikipedia “Both Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) and Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) were accorded major posthumous retrospective exhibitions at the Salon d'Automne in Paris between 1903 and 1907, and both were important influences on Picasso and instrumental to his creation of Les Demoiselles” … “both of those artists were particularly influential to the formation of Cubism and especially important to the paintings of Picasso during 1906 and 1907” (Wikipedia,

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