The words "stripped skirt" not only literary defines the type of the dress but also describes the lady's personality as she was a fashion icon of her time and was famous for her dress sense and elegancy. Hence the title itself depicted her as a lady with a powerful personality (Art Galleries, 2009). The other painting under discussion is the art work of Henri Matisse titled as "The woman with a Hat." This is also a hand made oil painting produced in 1905 and the women in the picture are believed to be Matisse's wife Amelie. The art style used in his picture by the painter was different from that of his precedor, Paul Cezanne. Cezanne painting is an example of his impressionist style with the use of real life colors and expressions in the painting while Matisse used unnatural brighter and expressive colors and tones, creating an art piece that is an example of Fauvism. Fauvism was a painting style that was famous in early nineties and was characterized with the use of emphasized painterly qualities and use of strong and brighter colors over the realistic and representational values featured in impressionism. The painting was characterized by seemingly wild brush work and stringent colors. Also the art style posed a high degree of simplification and abstraction, a common character of paintings by Fauves.

The painting like that of Cezanne's has portrayed the woman in highly sophisticated and stylish outfit revealing the ravishing personality of the...

However the use of brighter colors and the way the spaces were completely filled by the wild strokes of brighter colors make it more lively, expressive and vibrant. As according to Matisse as he once said that expressions for him, does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent moment. Instead his pictures were expressive even around the empty spaces as further said by him that for Matisse the entire arrangement of the picture is expressive including images of the figures and the empty space s around them. Hence although the colors used in Matisse picture make it away from reality but they are instead more expressive and vibrant (Nicolas, 2002).