Influenced by the Impressionist Camille Pissarro, Cezanne specialized in landscape painting - see his series of Mont Sainte-Victoire paintings (1882-1906) - and still life painting. During his late period he also created some sublime portrait art, as exemplified by the masterpieces The Card Players...
Cezanne’s most famous paintings demonstrate why he is known as the father of modern art. His reduction of the visible world into basic shapes and faceted brushstrokes are seen as the beginnings of modern art. “Still Life with Apples” is a prime example of this style with its bold colors...
This was probably Cézanne's intention as he embarked upon the first of the dual card player canvases; in doing so he obviated the need for sizing up or down the study images and could therefore transcribe them easily and directly, making free-hand drawings--with the studies as his guide...
House's essay "Art without Anecdote" in the CézanneCard Playersexhibition catalogue. Regarding "this long and bafflingly diverse list of potential sources," House cautions his readers: "what marks out his paintings is not their similarity, in whole or part, to any of these images, but rather...
The double life of a still life : rhythm, vibration and the poetics of stillness from Paul Cezanne to Wallace Stevens This thesis explores still life across different media in the early-to mid-twentieth century. Still life has long been characterised as a 'minor' genre due......
3. Cezanne's still life and non-representational art He painted these apples and oranges without following rules of gravity. By painting apples floating above the table and obscure( :)) continuity of the table cloth and carpet, he creates tension and expectation of motion through these still ob...
In fact, most critics describe the scenes as the representation of the human still life, while others believe that the men’s focus on the game depicted the artist’s absorption in his artworks. Cezanne created quite a number of sketches and studies as he prepared for The Card Players ...
bring a rare eloquence to passages of still life like the basket of fruit in the "Holy Family on the Steps" in the Cleveland Museum, it would never have occurred to him, as it did to Cezanne, that still life in and for itself could be one of the supreme instruments of human ...
Althoughtheirworksstillmaintainacertainimage,but fundamentally,theirgoalsandobjectivereproductionisquite different.FromCezanne,theydevelopedaso-called "simultaneousvisualimage"paintinglanguage,theobjectof differentangles,differentimages,combinedwiththeimagein
life. Theodore Reff has called this important series of paintings "the latest and grandest of all Cézanne's portraits," explaining, "No longer portraits in the traditional sense, they are images of a man wholly absorbed into his natural environment and entirely at peace with it, and as such...