LIFE (LOVE) AND DEATH OR EROS AND THANATOS IN THE PAINTING OF HENRY MATISSE AND PABLO PICASSO
LIFE (LOVE) AND DEATH OR EROS AND THANATOS IN THE PAINTING OF HENRY MATISSE AND PABLO PICASSO

Summary/Abstract: Themes like life, joy, love and death, the ones of Erosand Thanatos are probably the most representative of the XX-th century,being in fact a leitmotif for the entire European creation and not only.Personality of the modern French art, Henry Matisse (1869-1954)brought into his art the conciliation between the flat tint and thesuggestion of the volume, between the space and transfiguration of thelight- color, being different from the one known by the Renaissanceartists as a vehicle of brightness in relation to the shadow.Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) exponent and promoter of Cubismalong with George Braque, will paint passionately a series of paintingsinspired by the global drama of humanity, for example: Guernica,Massacre in Korea, War and Peace, paintings that are to become averitable antiwar manifesto transposed within modern painting.

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