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The Move Toward Modernism: A Look at Cezanne
Chapter 31Humanities 103
Instructor Beth Camp
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Challenge Questions:
Do the paintings by Cezanne reinforce or contradict your understanding of non-representational art? Of abstract painting?
As you view these works, select two paintings which you think are “most representative” of Cezanne’s work.
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Cezanne: 1839-1906
•Early paintings: Cezanne created fantastic dreamlike scenes and used a heavy palette knife
•1872 Cezanne met Monet and began using color to show perspective and light to “recreate nature”
•Accomplishments: Cezanne developed new type of spatial pattern, showing objects from shifting viewpoints and simple shapes. Strongly influenced CUBISM
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Cezanne
Portrait of the Artist's Fatherc. 1866
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Cezanne: The Abduction, 1867
Does this painting show the influence of the Romantic era? How?
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Cezanne: Bathers at Rest, 1875-1876
Does the use of light here suggest an Impressionist influence?
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Cezanne: Large Bathers, 1899-1906
Can you find triangles in the composition of this painting?
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Cezanne: Still Life with Apples, 1895-1898
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Cezanne (1839-1905)
•Later years:
•Major subject was a large mountain near his home, Mont Sainte-Victoire
•With these paintings, Cezanne “abstracted what he considered nature’s depest truth – its essential tension between stasis and change” (Stokstad 1035)
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Cezanne: Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1885-1895
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Cezanne: Bay from L'Estaquec, 1886
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Cezanne:The Card Players, 1890-1892
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Cezanne
Madame Cézanne1885-1887
Notice how Cezanne creates emotion with color and light
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Cezanne
Self-Portrait with Rose Backgroundc. 1875
Did van Gogh influence the background of this painting?
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Cezanne
Self-Portrait with Soft Hatc. 1894
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What’s Next?
Challenge Question: In what ways did Cezanne contribute to
nonrepresentational art? Can you see how Cezanne influenced
Picasso?
Sources: Slides. Mark Hardin’s Artchive online. Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. New
York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999.