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THE BODY110 Postures and Poses
THESE DISTINCTIVE WORKS show two strikingly different ways were made contrast greatly. Raphael's study of fallen men
of modeling the body on paper. Raphael drew delicate tones leaves no doubt that they are in anguish. In a single drawing
of black chalk on tinted paper, while Matisse used scissors we see equally observed studies of foreshortening (see
and glue to cut out and paste a flat collage of brilliant color. pp.116-17), anatomy, and human defeat. By way of contrast,
Principal figures mirror each other. They both raise one Matisse's blue nude sings with life and celebration. In this
arm to cup their head in their hand, while supporting the highly sophisticated abstraction, we see the essence of her
weight of their body with the other. But the meanings of beauty without a single detail. She unfolds and stretches
each gesture and the materials and methods by which they shapely limbs, filling the page with her presence.

RAFFAELLO SANZIO (RAPHAEL) Sculptural frieze This is a preparatory drawing for Raphael's Three Guards
Italian High Renaissance painter: Raphael is best known painting of the Resurrection of Christ. Here three male nudes are
for his images of the Madonna and Child, altar pieces, compressed into very shallow pictorial space, so that we read this 1500-20
and Vatican frescos. He trained under Perugino, and drawing like a sculptural frieze. Muscular dramatic postures reflect 91/4 x143/8in (234 x 365 mm)
studied to learn from the works of Michelangelo and the influence of Michelangelo and the Renaissance celebration of RAPHAEL
Leonardo besides whom he was soon ranked. the idealized male body.