Titian's painting, in fact, seems to be a stop-cadre and the audience can expect that once the play button is pressed again, the characters will resume their natural movement and activities. In Matisse's painting, the characters are also extremely dynamic, caught in activities ranging from dancing to movement and from gymnastics to playing instruments. In the background, we can see one of the dancing group that has appeared in other of Matisse's paintings, notably in the Dance. Again, the same impression of dynamism as in Titian's work is present.

However, the important distance in time between the two paintings shows in the way the characters are created, the colors used and the perception of nature in general. First of all, in Matisse's painting, the characters in the painting are barely crayoned, while Titian uses a great deal of time to paint underlying features of his characters, including their clothes, their anticipated gestures, their figures and their face lines and expressions etc. His characters speak through the expressions that Titian draws on their bodies. On the other hand, Matisse's characters speak almost exclusively through their movement, because there are no underlying explicit features drawn out in the case of his painting.

Titian is very keen to surprise almost...

The trees are barely sketched, although they do encompass the perception of the existence of a forest and of a meadow in the background.
There also seems to be an important figure difference in terms of the role attributed to colors. Titian's palette is extremely rich in different nuances of colors, while Matisse seems to restrict his painting to only a couple of essential colors for his painting, like gray and brown. There is almost no experimentation from Matisse with these colors, because, as previously mentioned, it seems that his emphasis is placed on the different gestures and acts of his characters rather than on the colors themselves or on descriptive artistic means.

The differences between the two artists reflect the fact that they have painted some 400 years apart and that they were dominated by different artistic creeds. However, it is thoroughly remarkable to notice that there are also many similarities between these paintings, including the dynamism and expressivity of the two paintings and of the characters represented.