"Picasso and Matisse are poles apart aesthetically. Matisse told his students, "One must always search for the desire of the line, where it wishes to enter
, where to die away." Picasso's line has no desire; it is sheer will. Form builds in Picasso, flows in Matisse. Picasso uses colour. Colours enter the world through Matisse like harmonies through Mozart."Superbly put.
(Paintings: On the left, Matisse The Piano Lesson; on the right, Picasso Le Piano).
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It seems to me that their purpose for/of art we likewise differentiated.
Very nicely put, esp about Picasso's line being sheer will. Think that goes back to a discussion of whether art is art only if the observer sees it as such - Picasso's cubist work was probably more true to the expression he was seeking (sheer will), but the blue period for instance connects so much more to the observer .. that's how I see it - I might think of his cubist work as 'interesting', but will never be moved by it ... because he painted it for himself, and not for anyone else. Matisse clearly had a very different idea of form and line ... guess his 'paper-cutting' type paintings (Ice dancers, blue nude, even Icarus) are clear evidence of the contrast.
MR: I see what you're saying, but I think it's dangerous to generalise. All this "blue period for instance connects to much more to the observer" stuff - when what you really mean is just that you like the blue period more and aren't moved by the cubist work. I see no reason why you couldn't be moved to tears by the great cubist paintings and think of the blue period as fairly blah, and I suspect you'll find people like that. On the whole I'm for the Blue Period over the cubists as well, but I suspect you'll find that there are people out there who won't agree with you. And given a choice between Matisse's paper cutting paintings and the work of, say, Duchamp, I'd pick the latter - even though you could argue that that's much closer to Picasso's cubism in many ways.
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