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1839 - 1906

Paul Cézanne 1839 - 1906. 1839 - 1906. Photo of Paul Cézanne in front of The Bathers. Artistic Purpose. To convey the message that his pictures were flat, painted canvases, not imitations of reality.

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1839 - 1906

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  1. Paul Cézanne 1839 - 1906 1839 - 1906

  2. Photo of Paul Cézanne in front of The Bathers.

  3. Artistic Purpose • To convey the message that his pictures were flat, painted canvases, not imitations of reality. • To paint nature convincingly so as to reveal its basic structures and their relationships in space: “Interpret nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone…”.

  4. Artistic Credo • A painting is an artistic composition separate from reality—a creation rather than a reproduction. • Creation must be based on the contemplation of nature. • For the sake of composition, objects are distorted, reduced into basic geometrical shapes, and presented from multiple points of view.

  5. Portraits • The sitter is not portrayed as an individual nor within the context of social criticism. • The human head, like an apple, can be seen as nothing more than a convenient geometric starting point for a composition in which every element was treated with equal respect and attention.

  6. Paul Cézanne. Portrait of Madame Cézanne in the Greenhouse (ca. 1890). Oil on canvas.

  7. Paul Cézanne. Portrait of Madame Cézanne in a Yellow Chair (1888-90). Oil on canvas.

  8. Cézanne’s wife Marie-Hortense photographed in 1900 at the age of 50.

  9. Still Lifes: A Challenge in the Investigation of Visual Perception • A means of creating a new reality: making observers aware that what they were looking at was an image on a two-dimensional canvas • A means of achieving a canvas that could be appreciated for itself as a solidly composed structure of forms and colors • A means of expressing multiple points of view simultaneously

  10. Paul Cézanne. Still Life:Basket of Apples (1880-90). Oil on canvas.

  11. Paul Cézanne. Still Life with Apples and Oranges (1895-1900). Oil on canvas.

  12. Paul Cézanne. Still Life with Vase of Flowers and Apples (1889-1890). Oil on canvas.

  13. Paul Cézanne. Still Life with Basket of Fruit (1888-90). Oil on canvas.

  14. Multiple Points of View

  15. Paul Cézanne. Still Life with Dresser (1883-1887). Oil on canvas.

  16. Landscapes—Mont Sainte-Victoire • Exercises in painting the mountain from different points of view • Exercises in neutralizing the effects of perspective in favor of a unified picture space: developing an independent harmonious composition in “harmony in parallel with nature” • Exercises in editing • Exercises in expressing nature as architecture

  17. The landscape round Aix-en-Provence with the Mont Sainte Victoire.

  18. Mont Sainte-Victoire Ready for a day’s work

  19. Paul Cézanne. Mont Sainte-Victoire from the Chemin deVelcros (1879). Oil on canvas.

  20. Paul Cézanne. Mont Sainte-Victoire from Bellevue (1882-85). Oil on canvas.

  21. Abandons Linear Perspective • Perspective is not achieved through lines of sight converging on a common vanishing point. • Isolated diagonals and verticals, in the form of paths, aqueducts, or towering pine trees cut through the compositions to give the impression of depth • Passage (overlapping planes of color) create the impression of depth

  22. Overlapping Planes: Passage The surface of the image is composed of horizontal areas of color set side by side and interlinking the separate spatial fields. Progressing through one spatial field after another, the alternating brown and green areas provide a sense of depth.

  23. Paul Cézanne. Mont Sainte-Victoire (1885-87). Oil on canvas.

  24. Paul Cézanne. Mont Sainte-Victoire from the Large Pine (1885-87). Oil on canvas.

  25. Paul Cézanne. Mont Sainte-Victoire (1889). Oil on canvas.

  26. Photograph of the site

  27. Photograph of the site

  28. Paul Cézanne. Road NearMont Sainte-Victoire (1900). Oil on canvas.

  29. Photograph of the site

  30. Paul Cézanne. Bibémus: The Red Rock (1897-98). Oil on canvas.

  31. Paul Cézanne. Quarry andMont Sainte-Victoire from Bibémus (1897). Oil on canvas.

  32. Detail of Quarry andMont Sainte-Victoire from Bibémus (1897).

  33. Photograph of the site

  34. View of the quarry

  35. Cézanne’s Compositional Methods • Size • Central axis • Color • Form

  36. This illustration shows that Cézanne has more than doubled the size of the mountain.

  37. This is an illustration of the principle of organization so Often used by Cézanne: planes and volumes moving around an imaginary central axis.

  38. The orange and green shapes are here reduced to two-dimensional patterns emphasizing how Cézanne interlocks and interweaves the pictorial surface.

  39. The mass of the mountain is shown here in combination with the small white shapes to which it is related. Without these small shapes the mountain would be isolated. Here the two are interrelated through distribution and repetition.

  40. Paul Cézanne. Bibémus Quarry (1895). Oil on canvas.

  41. Paul Cézanne. Bibémus Quarry (1898). Oil on canvas.

  42. Paul Cézanne. Mountains in Provence (ca. 1890). Oil on canvas.

  43. Paul Cézanne. Mont Sainte-Victoireand the Chateau Noir (1904-06). Oil on canvas.

  44. Two views of the Chateau Noir with the Mont Sainte-Victoire in the background

  45. Photograph of the site from Lauves.

  46. Paul Cézanne. Mont Sainte Victoire (1902-04). Oil on canvas.

  47. Paul Cézanne. Mont Sainte-Victoire from Les Lauves (1904-06). Oil on canvas.

  48. Paul Cézanne. Mont Sainte-VictoireSeen from Lauves (1902-04). Oil on canvas.

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