We start with Henri Matisse Memory of Oceania and Jackson Pollock Shimmering Substance. Both of these works are comprised of chaos and colors that make you want to see something that may or may not be there. Spending some time looking at Matisse the white reminds of an old ship that has the symbol of something protruding from the front. In this case it seems to be a blue face. I am not sure what exactly he was trying to portray but I am sure that people see different things in this painting. Pollock has the same sort of idea with an array of colors but closer together in what seems to be many small clipping of paper arranged on a pad. The yellow stands out to me as though there is a circular object in the middle of the painting. With the disarray that is going on in both of these painting the artists can attract many different opinions of what is going on depending on who is looking at them.
In comparing Pablo Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror and Titian's Venus with a Mirror. We can see two very different depictions of women admiring themselves in a mirror. Picasso depicts the woman seeing something very different than what is represented in front of the mirror. Where Titian shows Venus seeing herself as the same. Utilizing a Mirror in the painting allows the artist to express his opinion of what is seen in the mirror. Does everyone see the same thing in a mirror or is the reflection different for each person? Each person would have there own opinion of what is seen and how closely it resembles the person in front of that mirror.
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