Before reading the research point, I had never come across Picasso’s Blue Period, which surprised me, as I found them so beautiful and alluring even when meant to be miserable and depressing. The way that Picasso seems to able to tell a story just with a model and a simple background creates a moving narrative of loneliness and desperation and a sense of waiting for something to happen and the inevitability of that something never appearing. Along with the blue tones, the use of grey creates a blank canvas on the face of the subject and gives the impression of an insanity awakening in their minds.
In complete contrast fauvism used many bright rich colours to create a dreamy cheerful, and in particular Henri Matisse used opaque pastel shades in order to capture a fairy tale like feeling, and happy loving scene, full of friendship and loyalty. The scattered brush marks next to Picasso’s tight marks seem to symbolise a kind of freedom within oneself, as if the blue figures only have themselves to blame, and the variation of colour and shade shows a vibrancy and eccentricity in fauvism, and the limitations of the blue restrict any other feeling than depression come into the life of the model.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasso%27s_Blue_Period
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Angel_Fern%C3%A1ndez_de_Soto
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