Large Bathers

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The French artist Paul Cezanne was a Post-impressionist who painted a series of "bather" paintings at the end of his career. He was the bridge that connect impressionism to early modern art such as Cubism and fauvism. The "Large Bathers" is one of his last and largest works in the series. The style and technique used in his painting uses thick brushstrokes and brighter color to achieve a timeless and masterpiece of modern art. This painting is characterized by the exploration of the underlying formal structure of still life, portraits, and landscapes rather than describe the overall impression of a scene. Cezanne’s works “sought to articulate its underlying organization and suggested that landscape was built up from the simplest geometric components” (TheArtstory.com (n,d). As he once famously wrote in a letter to the Symbolist painter Emile Bernard, "Treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone." By using …show more content…

Matisse's work had some resemblance to, and was inspired by the work of the French artist Paul Cezanne. In his paintings, "Matisse used pure colors and the white of exposed canvas to create a light-filled atmosphere in his Fauve paintings. Rather than using modeling or shading to lend volume and structure to his pictures, Matisse used contrasting areas of pure, unmodulated color" (Artstory, n,d).
Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life) painting - oil on canvas, using broad fields of colors, linear figures and independent motifs to form complete composition is evident of Cezanne's influence. In this painting, Matisse used similar objects in the painting such as landscape as a state to unify the figures and the landscape. In the painting, the breaking free from the total influence of Cezanne was revealed when Matisse used odalisques and harem fantasies of Jean Ingres and scenes mythical pleasure by Titian (khanacademy,

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