Paul Cezanne Art

Paul Cezanne Art

The French painter Paul Cezanne is one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists, whose works and ideas were influential in the aesthetic development of many 20'th century artists and art movements, especially Cubism. Cezanne's art, misunderstood and discredited by the public during most of his life, grew out of Impressionism and eventually challenged all the conventional values of painting in the 19'th century through its insistence on personal expression and on the integrity of the painting itself. Paul Cezanne is regarded today as one of the greatest fore-runners of modern painting, both for the way that he evolved of putting down on canvas exactly what his eye saw in nature and for the qualities of pictorial form that he achieved through a unique treatment of space, mass, and color.

Cezanne, the oldest of the Post-Impressionists, was born in Aix-en-Provence, France. A man of intensely emotional temperament, he came to Paris in 1861 possessed with enthusiasm for the Romantics. By 1872 Cezanne came strongly under the influence of the Impressionists, especially Pissarro. Less concerned than Monet or Pissarro with the scintillation of light of the haze of atmosphere, he stressed the tangible substance of objects and gave a more definite compositional structure to his paintings. As a Post-Impressionist, he passed through an Impressionist phase but became dissatisfied with the limitations of the style and went beyond it in various directions.

Cezanne used color with passion and creativity, giving his brush strokes structure, solidity, and durability. Cezanne knew that colors in nature and their combination with natural light could never be truly reproduced. He saw himself as an interpreter who had to accept the limitations of the medium and tried to transfer the images onto canvas the best way he could. He attempted to bridge the natural and artistic worlds. In his striving for perfection, this meant retouching the entire picture to recreate the all-important harmony. He sometimes worked on the same picture for years, never satisfied with the results. He seldom signed his works, because he never considered them finished. Those he did sign had his mark of approval.

Cezanne was versatile. In his pursuit of perfection and a unique style, he experimented a lot. Cezanne does not draw his picture before painting it, instead, he creates space and depth of perspective by means of planes of color, which are freely associated and at the same time contrasted and compared. The facets create not just one but many perspectives, and in this way volume comes once again to dominate the composition, no longer a product of the line but rather of the color itself. Things have color and they have weight, and the color and mass of each affects the weight of the other. It was to understand these rules that Cezanne dedicated his life.

Cezanne's contribution to modern art was a new concept of realism and pictorial form. Painting for him was the "realization" of impressions received from nature, the translation of unpaintable facts of space into colors and shapes. It is the tension between actuality and illusion, description and abstraction, reality and invention, that makes Cezanne's most unassuming subjects so profoundly satisfying and exciting, and which provided a legacy for a revolution of form that led the way for modern art. By the time of his death in 1906, Cezanne's art had begun to be shown and seen across Europe, and it became a fundamental influence on the Fauves, the Cubists, and virtually all advanced art of the early 20'th century.

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Contents

1. Landscape with Mill, 1860
2. The Four Seasons, Autumn, 1861
3. The Four Seasons, Spring, 1861
4. The Four Seasons, Summer, 1861
5. The Four Seasons, Winter, 1861
6. Judgement of Paris, 1864
7. Still Life with Bread and Leg of Lamb, 1866
8. Sugar Bowl, Pears and Blue Cup, 1866
9. Landscape, 1867
10. Neried and Tritons, 1867
11. The Feast, 1867
12. Women Dressing, 1867
13. Landscape, 1868
14. Rocks in the Forest of Fontainebleau, 1868
15. Winding Road in Provence, 1868
16. The Barque of Dante (After Delacroix), 1870
17. The Walk, 1870
18. Woman Diving into Water, 1870
19. Luncheon on the Grass, 1871
20. The Avenue of Chestnut Trees at the Jas de Bouffan, 1871
21. The Oilmill, 1871
22. Hortense Breast Feeding Paul, 1872
23. Flowers in a Vase, 1873
24. House of the Hanged Man, Auvers-sur-Oise, 1873
25. Italian Earthenware, 1873
26. Landscape at Auvers, 1873
27. View of Auvers-sur-Oise, 1873
28. Still Life with Soup Tureen, 1874
29. The House and the Tree, 1874
30. Couples Relaxing by a Pond, 1875
31. A Painter at the Work, 1876
32. Bathers at Rest, 1876
33. Chestnut Tree and Farms, 1876
34. Landscape, Study after Nature (The Seat at L'Estaque), 1876
35. Pot of Flowers, 1876
36. Trees in the Park of the Jas de Bouffan, 1876
37. Afternoon in Neapel, 1877
38. In the Garden, 1877
39. Roofs of Paris, 1877
40. Self Portrait, 1877
41. Still Life with Bowl and Milk Jug, 1877
42. The Buffet, 1877
43. The Etang des Soeurs at Osny, 1877
44. The Eternal Female, 1877
45. Two Vases of Flowers, 1877
46. Apples, 1878
47. Bathing, 1878
48. The Basin in the Park of the Jas de Bouffan, 1878
49. The Pool at Jas de Bouffan, 1878
50. The Seine with Bercy (After Guillaumin), 1878
51. L'Estaque, View through the Trees, 1879
52. Mountains in Provence (Near L'Estaque), 1879
53. Still Life, 1879
54. Still Life with Apples and a Glass, 1879
55. The Abandoned House, 1879
56. Bouquet of Flowers, 1880
57. Flowers in an Olive Jar, 1880
58. Melting Snow, Fontainbleau, 1880
59. Self Portrait, 1880
60. The Pont de Maincy, 1880
61. A Turn in the Road, 1881
62. Landscape at Auvers sur Oise, 1881
63. Farm in Normandy, Summer (Hattenville), 1882
64. Flowers and Fruit, 1882
65. Houses in Provence, the Riaux Valley near L'Estaque, 1882
66. Leda and the Swan, 1882
67. Rocks at L'Estaque, 1882
68. The Orchard, 1882
69. Province, 1883
70. The Sea at L'Estaque, 1883
71. At Jas de Bouffan, 1885
72. Great Bathers, 1885
73. The Card Players, 1885
74. Still Life with Cherries and Peaches, 1887
75. Bridge over the Marne, 1888
76. The Alley at Chantilly, 1888
77. Boy Resting, 1890
78. Farm Buildings of the Jas de Bouffan, 1890
79. House with Red Roof, 1890
80. Plain, 1890
81. Portrait of Mrs. Cezanne in Red Dress, 1890
82. Potted Plants, 1890
83. Reflections in the Water, 1890
84. Still Life with Flowers and Fruits, 1890
85. The Kitchen Table, 1890
86. Smoker, 1892
87. Still Life with Ginger Pot, 1893
88. Still Life with Pomegranate and Lemon, 1893
89. Still Life with Water Jug, 1893
90. Still Life with Watermelon and Pomegranates, 1893
91. Curtain, Jug and Fruit Bowl, 1894
92. Fruit Bowl, Pitcher and Fruit, 1894
93. House and Trees, 1894
94. Still Life with Apples, 1894
95. Sugarbowl, Pears and Tablecloth, 1894
96. The Apotheose Delacroix, 1894
97. Card Players, 1895
98. House in Province near Gardanne, 1895
99. Portrait of Gustave Geffroy, 1895
100. Tree, 1895
101. Child with Straw Hat, 1896
102. Female Bathing, 1896
103. Portrait of Joachim, 1896
104. The Lac d'Annecy, 1896
105. Male Bathing, 1897
106. Chrysanthemums, 1898
107. Still Life with Red Onions, 1898
108. Village Behind Trees, 1898
109. Portrait of Ambroise Vollard, 1899
110. Seated Man, 1900
111. Streamlet in a Small Forest, 1900
112. The Bibemus Quarry, 1900
113. View of the Sea near L'Estaque, 1900
114. Skull Pyramid, 1901
115. Bouquet, 1902
116. Fillette a la Poupee, 1904
117. In the Woods, 1904
118. Seated Peasant, 1904
119. The Chateau Noir, 1904
120. Female Bathing, 1905
121. River Landscape, 1905
122. The Great Bathers, 1905
123. Chateau Noir, 1906
124. Jourdan's Cottage, 1906
125. Still Life with Green Melon, 1906

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