Paul Cezanne is Artist of the Week
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One of the most influential artists in the history of painting in the twentieth century, Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) have inspired generations of modern artists. Generally classified as a post-impressionist, his unique way of construction as its analytical approach and colors of nature influenced the art of the Cubists, Fauves and subsequent generations of avant-garde artists.
Starting to paint in 1860 in his hometown of Aix-en-Provence and later studied in Paris, early paintings by Cezanne of romantic themes and classical steeped in dark colors and executed with an expressive brushwork in the tradition of Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863). Dramatic tonal contrasts and thick layers of pigment (often applied with a palette knife) illustrate the energy that Cezanne painted during the 1860s, particularly evident in the series of portraits of his uncle Dominique Aubert, alternately dressed as a lawyer , artist, and a monk (53140.1, 1993.400.1).This piece of costume recalls Edouard Manet paintings of Spain in 1860.While the three works that Cézanne exhibited in 1874 at the first Impressionist exhibition does not fully conform to the Impressionist technique to place quickly applied pigment on canvas, finally gave up their relatively dark palette, bright hues and began sharing painting on-of-doors, encouraged by the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro (1830-1903). His Bathers (1976.201.12) for 1874-1875 shows a developed style and tone scale on one of his first paintings of this theme which recurs in his work. The landscape of the swimmers have the brightness of painting outdoors, while the figures, drawn from the imagination of the artist (Cézanne rarely painted bare life), reconciled within this framework. The complex process of inspiration from these two sources, nature and memory, occupy Cézanne in his later work. El Pescador (great scene) (2001.
473), about 1875, are the same bright colors and swimmers, but its subject recalls familiar themes of fantasy in 1860, could also be a product of Napa sources.
Source: Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
