Through the glasses of history, the time of the Impressionists often appears as a carefree phase in art. Artists who left dazzling footprints and impressed posterity with their personal view of nature. A freedom has entered into the mode of representation that was not inspiring for all painters of this epoch. Paul Cezanne was one of the outsiders on the art scene. At home in the vast landscape of Provence, the vibrant big city life in Paris slowed down his creativity. Among artist colleagues, Cezanne was considered grumpy and dismissive. Cezanne was a painter who spent many years of his creative life in search of new ideas. The painter lacked the temperament and impulsiveness with which Manet painted his pictures. Cezanne was serious, he mixed shades of color on his palette for hours until the nuance was to his satisfaction. The application of paint was not spontaneous. Concentrated and with great perfectionism the great works developed.
"I don't paint anything I haven't seen," the artist said about his art. Cezanne had seen a lot. He took in his environment like a sponge and from his memory and his feelings he put together colourful pictures. He also painted outdoors and in the studio. It was only in later years that the painter had found his characteristic style. For Cezanne, painting was colourful design, the application of colour in its purest beauty. The artist dispensed with contours and the play of light and dark. Coloured surfaces determine the composition of the picture. While artists often boast of their eye for beauty in reality, for Cezanne this eye was completely insignificant. Paul Cezanne wanted beauty to blossom on the canvas. The painter did not work with models, only his wife was occasionally allowed to pose in his studio.
The painting The Great Bathers shows a distinctive triangular composition based exclusively on the grouping of figures and trees. The painting is trend-setting for modern painting. Cezanne was a painter who gave an individual expression to many elements of conventional pictorial language. His contacts with the art scene in Paris were not close. Cezanne did not share his insights and acquired the reputation of being solitary. He could not bear to be observed while painting and led a hermitic life in the provinces.
Through the glasses of history, the time of the Impressionists often appears as a carefree phase in art. Artists who left dazzling footprints and impressed posterity with their personal view of nature. A freedom has entered into the mode of representation that was not inspiring for all painters of this epoch. Paul Cezanne was one of the outsiders on the art scene. At home in the vast landscape of Provence, the vibrant big city life in Paris slowed down his creativity. Among artist colleagues, Cezanne was considered grumpy and dismissive. Cezanne was a painter who spent many years of his creative life in search of new ideas. The painter lacked the temperament and impulsiveness with which Manet painted his pictures. Cezanne was serious, he mixed shades of color on his palette for hours until the nuance was to his satisfaction. The application of paint was not spontaneous. Concentrated and with great perfectionism the great works developed.
"I don't paint anything I haven't seen," the artist said about his art. Cezanne had seen a lot. He took in his environment like a sponge and from his memory and his feelings he put together colourful pictures. He also painted outdoors and in the studio. It was only in later years that the painter had found his characteristic style. For Cezanne, painting was colourful design, the application of colour in its purest beauty. The artist dispensed with contours and the play of light and dark. Coloured surfaces determine the composition of the picture. While artists often boast of their eye for beauty in reality, for Cezanne this eye was completely insignificant. Paul Cezanne wanted beauty to blossom on the canvas. The painter did not work with models, only his wife was occasionally allowed to pose in his studio.
The painting The Great Bathers shows a distinctive triangular composition based exclusively on the grouping of figures and trees. The painting is trend-setting for modern painting. Cezanne was a painter who gave an individual expression to many elements of conventional pictorial language. His contacts with the art scene in Paris were not close. Cezanne did not share his insights and acquired the reputation of being solitary. He could not bear to be observed while painting and led a hermitic life in the provinces.
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