LIFE (LOVE) AND DEATH OR EROS AND THANATOS IN THE PAINTING OF HENRY MATISSE AND PABLO PICASSO
Keywords:
Eros, Thanatos, Fauvism, Cubism, Matisse, Picasso, Guernica, Luxury, calm and voluptuousness, Massacre in Korea, War and PeaceAbstract
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.
