MATISSE AND PICASSO

Matisse and Picasso achieved extraordinary prominence during their lifetimes. They have become cultural icons, standing not only for different kinds of art but also for different ways of living. Matisse, known for his restraint and intense sense of privacy, for hi s decorum and discretion, created an art that transcended daily life and conveyed a sensuality that inhabited an abstract and ethere al realm of being. In contrast, Picasso became the exemplar of intense emotionality, of theatricality, of art as a kind of autobiogr aphical ...[Read more]