Subjective Critique

     I do not like how flat this panting looks, the background is comprised of three layers a bottom green, a blue in the middle and then a top that looks like he mixed the blue and green together but is dingy like in color but there is not mid or foreground, even though Matisse tries to use warm and cool colors to solve this problem, I do not think it works that well. I would like to make the work look lighter, because even though there are some places with lighter colors, like some of the skin on the women, the work looks to dark and dull.  The bathers in the painting look very ugly and unnatural to me and I want to change that. The woman in the middle looks like she has a monkey’s face and is eating her fingers. The woman on the right side of the painting, even though only have of her face is seen, looks like she has a unibrow, and the way her hair is designed looks like she has a mullet. Finally the last bather is what I assume to be another woman, but looks more like a man to me, because the face is hidden and the figure only has short hair. Another thing I dislike is how big the feet of each of the bathers look, especially the woman on the right. I also can not understand if the bathers are indoors or outdoors, if I had to guess, I would say outdoors, but there are no plants or trees to help ascertain the difference.