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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