Think about the formal qualities. How is the use of color/light different? How is the space different? How do the artists want audience’s gaze travel differently? Any difference in composition, in foreground and background?

What is Matisse’s purpose for his use of color? Please write a comparison for these two paintings. and answer this question.
Henri Matisse, The Red Room, 1908-09.
Edgar Degas, The Rehearsal, 1874.
Think about the formal qualities. How is the use of color/light different? How is the space different? How do the artists want audience’s gaze travel differently? Any difference in composition, in foreground and background?

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