Comparing and Contrasting

 We have a very easy task assigned by our teacher. The task is to compare two famous paintings by the famous artists Henry Matisse and Vincent Van Gogh. The paintings we are comparing are Henri Matisse 'Sunflowers' and Van Goghs 'La Musique'. Vincent Van Gogh and Henri Matisse were both talented artists who had different styles of painting. Henri Matisse has a painting style that is called Fauvism and Vincent Van Goghs painting style is Expressionist painting.

To me, 'Sunflowers' is a very dead painting because it looks like there is no life in it. When I see it, it makes me feel sad. The painting makes me feel sad because it has no bright colours, its just dark shady colours. Its sort of like a dead plant but it is still alive. I think that this painting is about his life on when he was in distress about the things that were happening to him. However he did get really famous because his sister in law told people to buy his paintings. People started to buy his paintings and that is how he became a very famous artist.

'La Musique' is a very interesting painting. It has a lot of bright colours, shapes, and lines.  I think that this painting is telling people that they were having a really great time singing, celebrating or learning a really great song on the guitar.  Henri Matisse believed that colours had healing powers so when his friend was sick Matisse drew a lot of paintings with very bright colours to help his friend heal from his wounds.

There are'nt a lot of things that I can compare with Henri Matisse and Van Gogh.  But I think that what they both have in common are really great paintings. Also what I think they have in common are when I look at some of their paintings it make me express my feelings. The things different between Matisse and Van Gogh are there life styles.  Henri Matisse had a really good life on the other hand Vincent Van Gogh had a really bad life and some of his paintings represent his life.