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Go to http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/matisse/
Check out the two paintings at the bottom - La Musique and Deux Fillettes. How does Matisse's style compare to Picasso and the cubists? Which is more visually pleasing in your opinion?

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Two Matisse paintings compared with Picasso's cubist style, with commentary and analysis

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La Musique
1939 (180 Kb); Oil on canvas, 115.2 x 115.2 cm (45 3/8 x 45 3/8 in); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

How does Matisse's style compare to Picasso and the cubists?
Neither of these two paintings experiment much with split perspectives, in the way that Picasso did with the ...

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