Henry Matisse and Lucian Freud
For this presentation and for the essay that we have to prepare for Art History i chose these two artists.
For the presentation we had to choose two paintings and compare them, i chose "Portrait of Rose", by Freud and "Odalisque in red trousers", by Matisse.
The main difference i found between this German artist and this French painter was the use of colour, as we know Matisse has been identified with Fauvism, so he used colour in a very simbolic and unrealistic way, while Freud was using more neutral colours, giving to their paintings a strong feel of human meat.
Another interesting thing i found was that for Freud it was essential that the sitter was a person close to him, and that is because he was into capturing how the person really is and not how they pretend to be, so of course he needed to know that person, like we can appreciate in this particular work, "Rose" is his daughter. So this is another difference, Matisse was painting an Odalisque, a women from the harem, just because he was fascinated by her exotic beauty and her body, it´s also important to keep in mind the two periods when these paintings were made, 1922 (Matisse) and 1978 (Freud); the feedback in the presentation was really usefull, they suggest me to talk about the different ways women have been seen throught out history, attitudes to woman, i think it will be an interesting thing to investigate later on with the essay.
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