Excerpt from Term Paper:

...... However, the important distance in time between the two paintings shows in the way the characters are created, the colors used and the perception of nature in general. First of all, in Matisses painting, the characters in the painting are barely crayoned, while Titian uses a great deal of time to paint underlying features of his characters, including their clothes, their anticipated gestures, their figures and their face lines and expressions etc. His characters speak through the expressions that Titian draws on their bodies. On the other hand, Matisses characters speak almost exclusively through their movement, because there are no underlying explicit features drawn out in the case of his painting
Titian is very keen to surprise almost every detail of the nature and of the landscape, including the silhouette of a small town in the background (which was in fact a common technique in the Renaissance period for painters), while Matisse is almost solely interested with the movement of his characters. The trees are barely sketched, although they do encompass the perception of the existence of a forest and of a meadow in the background......

Need this essay? If it's not quite what you're looking for there are over 50,000 more to search from, so you can find the term paper or essay that meets your needs.