Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne was French and Post-Impressionist but between Impressionism and Cubism combined the pictorial style and reducing figures to geometric forms, he has a unique treatment of space, mass, and color.

“The logical extreme of such a method would undoubtedly be the attempt to give up all resemblance to natural form and to create a purely abstract language of form.”

Paul Cézanne has financial security because his father was a banker; he was studying in Paris, first began to study law but later studied art. Cézanne's early pictures of romantic and classical themes are imbued with dark colors and expressive brushwork eventually he changed for bright colors and paint landscapes like Bathers and The Fisherman. The Impressionism start to show is his works like Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses. Cézanne had a system to give more dimension and to take the viewer into the painting, this is appreciate in his many landscapes he created like Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley. Later Cézanne start to development geometric and volumetric patterns form in his work like in Gardanne.

aul Cézanne compositions were mostly landscapes but also he develop a style of building forms completely from color and creating scenes with distorted perspectival space and he also drawn landscape and figures from his imagination.

Quotations

‘The End of Art Theory: Criticism and Postmodernism’                                                                          Victor Burgin

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