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Matisse vs Picasso = Ali vs Foreman
I was asked to discuss Matisse and Picasso and two different paintings they did in a discussion thread for school. It's boxing related so I figured I would share. This was not supposed to be a formal essay but just to comment about the two artists. Bash it if you feel you need to for whatever reason. I just wanted to share it.
Matisse vs Picasso = Ali vs Foreman
Matisse and Picasso was to painting as Muhammad Ali and George Foreman where to boxing. Matisse and Picasso where friends and rivals that motivated each other to change the course of art as was Ali and Foreman in the sport of boxing.
Like a chess match, Matisse and Picasso studied each others moves. They copied each others artwork and sometimes even copied the names. It is ironic that I compare these two artists like boxers as Matisse himself compared each other to a boxing match.
Matisse was a more traditional, figurative painter that depicted landscapes and female ******, while Picasso had Cubist and violent abstractions. To break it down, "The greatest" Muhammad Ali had finesse, while in "Big" George Foreman was power, Matisse was decorative while in Picasso was the destructive. The boxing expression goes, "styles make fights" and Matisse and Picasso's styles made for one good fight that brought out the best of each other just like Ali and Foreman. Matisse's and Picasso's styles were both figurative and abstract but their personalities where best described as the north and south poles.
In La Musique and Deux fillettes one could easily examine that both have studied each other as if they where preparing to out do the other in future paint-offs. Similar styled paintings but La Musique depicted the darker colors and had a clearer and cleaner picture, where as Deux fillettes has the blurry, less detailed but very colorful aspect to it. Very similar yet very different. Two artists copying each other but clearly trying to ultimately one up the other by being different.
I respectfully enjoy the styles of each artist but I found La Musique to be more visibly pleasing because I tend to like clear and vivid pictures as appose to blurry. I think Matisse liked his paintings to look unfinished while Picasso was about breaking everything apart. They took two totally different approaches, but together they made art modern, or was it modern art?
Like a statement George Foreman made "Yeah Muhammad Ali's become the best friend I have ever had. As a matter of fact he was always my good friend. I remember the best punch that was never thrown in that boxing match was…I was on my way down when he hit me with the right hand and he coulda caught me with another and he never threw it. He coulda finished me as all fighters do. He never hit me with the punch he coulda finished me off with. What a great man".
Matisse stated “Only one person has the right to criticize me, It’s Picasso.” After Matisse died, Picasso stated “When Matisse died, he left me his odalisques as a legacy,” Before Picasso died (1973), he stated “All things considered, there is only Matisse.”
This is a testament of Picasso and Matisse having a friendship of rivalry, respect, but overall they were a team, a pair of two great painters that changed the game of art, much like the two friends, boxing legends, and all time greats, Muhammad Ali and George Foreman that changed the sport of boxing.
Matisse vs Picasso = Ali vs Foreman
Matisse and Picasso was to painting as Muhammad Ali and George Foreman where to boxing. Matisse and Picasso where friends and rivals that motivated each other to change the course of art as was Ali and Foreman in the sport of boxing.
Like a chess match, Matisse and Picasso studied each others moves. They copied each others artwork and sometimes even copied the names. It is ironic that I compare these two artists like boxers as Matisse himself compared each other to a boxing match.
Matisse was a more traditional, figurative painter that depicted landscapes and female ******, while Picasso had Cubist and violent abstractions. To break it down, "The greatest" Muhammad Ali had finesse, while in "Big" George Foreman was power, Matisse was decorative while in Picasso was the destructive. The boxing expression goes, "styles make fights" and Matisse and Picasso's styles made for one good fight that brought out the best of each other just like Ali and Foreman. Matisse's and Picasso's styles were both figurative and abstract but their personalities where best described as the north and south poles.
In La Musique and Deux fillettes one could easily examine that both have studied each other as if they where preparing to out do the other in future paint-offs. Similar styled paintings but La Musique depicted the darker colors and had a clearer and cleaner picture, where as Deux fillettes has the blurry, less detailed but very colorful aspect to it. Very similar yet very different. Two artists copying each other but clearly trying to ultimately one up the other by being different.
I respectfully enjoy the styles of each artist but I found La Musique to be more visibly pleasing because I tend to like clear and vivid pictures as appose to blurry. I think Matisse liked his paintings to look unfinished while Picasso was about breaking everything apart. They took two totally different approaches, but together they made art modern, or was it modern art?
Like a statement George Foreman made "Yeah Muhammad Ali's become the best friend I have ever had. As a matter of fact he was always my good friend. I remember the best punch that was never thrown in that boxing match was…I was on my way down when he hit me with the right hand and he coulda caught me with another and he never threw it. He coulda finished me as all fighters do. He never hit me with the punch he coulda finished me off with. What a great man".
Matisse stated “Only one person has the right to criticize me, It’s Picasso.” After Matisse died, Picasso stated “When Matisse died, he left me his odalisques as a legacy,” Before Picasso died (1973), he stated “All things considered, there is only Matisse.”
This is a testament of Picasso and Matisse having a friendship of rivalry, respect, but overall they were a team, a pair of two great painters that changed the game of art, much like the two friends, boxing legends, and all time greats, Muhammad Ali and George Foreman that changed the sport of boxing.