Describe how Henri Matisse uses color and form in Le Bonheur de vivre (The Joy of Life) to express emotion?

First Answer

            The Joy of Life, painted by Henri Matisse is recognised as one of his greatest and incredible Fauve paintings. Similar to other fauve paintings, colour is actually responsive to emotional expression and not nature’s realities. Matisse unifies the landscape and the figures. This radical approach that integrates clear and bright colours serves to stimulate a number of emotions such as happiness and wonder. The incorporation of bright colours in the scenes express a combination of vivid and wild emotions. It would not be wrong to say that the interpretation of emotions depend a lot on the perspective of viewer.

2. Describe the artistic goals and developments of Cubism in art.

Second Answer

            The main goal of Cubism was to revolutionise the traditional art with the use of geometric shapes. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is the first cubist drawing. It was one of the major developments of Cubism and it broke almost every rule of traditional paintings. It was in 1908 that another major development was made in Cubism in the form of Large Nude as it initiated the first era of Cubism. Synthetic Cubism became the second era of Cubism as words were incorporated into paintings. Orphic Cubism is yet another development which was formed in 1913 by Jacques Villon and Raymond Duchamp.

3. Why was the idea of motion so important to the futurist?

Third Answer

            Actually, it can be said that motion was a critical concept for Futurists. Since the objective of Futurism was to discard the traditional art and celebrate change and innovation in society, speed was represented by futurists at which the modern world was advancing and processing in their work. Speed and motion seemed to represent a specific form of energy. For Futurists, it was similar to how the world seemed to experience a change. It also represented the belief according to which they wanted to the modern world to advance and head in. That is why the concept of motion was important to Futurists (Prebles, 2009).

References of Art

Prebles, F. (2009). Preble's Artforms.