Paul Cézanne and artworks

Natalia Brodskaya

Description

Since his death 100 years ago, Cézanne has become the most famous painter of the nineteenth century. He was born in Aix-en-Provence in 1839 and the happiest period of his life was his early youth in Provence, in company with Emile Zolá, another Italian. Following Zolá’s example, Cézanne went to Paris in his twenty-first year. During the Franco-Prussian war he deserted the military, dividing his time between open-air painting and the studio. He said to Vollard, an art dealer, “I’m only a painter. Parisian wit gives me a pain. Painting nudes on the banks of the Arc [a river near Aix] is all I could ask for.” Encouraged by Renoir, one of the first to appreciate him, he exhibited with the impressionists in 1874 and in 1877. He was received with derision, which deeply hurt him. Cézanne’s ambition, in his own words, was “to make out of Impressionism something as solid and durable as the paintings of the museums.” His aim was to achieve the monumental in a modern language of glowing, vibrating tones. Cézanne wanted to retain the natural colour of an object and to harmonise it with the various influences of light and shade trying to destroy it; to work out a scale of tones expressing the mass and character of the form. Cézanne loved to paint fruit because it afforded him obedient models and he was a slow worker. He did not intend to simply copy an apple. He kept the dominant colour and the character of the fruit, but heightened the emotional appeal of the form by a scheme of rich and concordant tones. In his paintings of still-life he is a master. His fruit and vegetable compositions are truly dramatic; they have the weight, the nobility, the style of immortal forms. No other painter ever brought to a red apple a conviction so heated, sympathy so genuinely spiritual, or an observation so protracted. No other painter of equal ability ever reserved for still-life his strongest impulses. Cézanne restored to painting the pre-eminence of knowledge, the most essential quality to all creative effort. The death of his father in 1886 made him a rich man, but he made no change in his abstemious mode of living. Soon afterwards, Cézanne retired permanently to his estate in Provence. He was probably the loneliest of painters of his day. At times a curious melancholy attacked him, a black hopelessness. He grew more savage and exacting, destroying canvases, throwing them out of his studio into the trees, abandoning them in the fields, and giving them to his son to cut into puzzles, or to the people of Aix. At the beginning of the century, when Vollard arrived in Provence with intentions of buying on speculation all the Cézannes he could get hold of, the peasantry, hearing that a fool from Paris was actually handing out money for old linen, produced from barns a considerable number of still-lifes and landscapes. The old master of Aix was overcome with joy, but recognition came too late. In 1906 he died from a fever contracted while painting in a downpour of rain.

Sujets

• Painting
• French
• Art
• Painter
• Post-Impressionism
• Impressionism
• Artist
• Paul Cézanne
• Peinture

Informations

• Publié par: Parkstone International
• Date de parution: 04 juillet 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781781609569
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Natalia Brodskaya




Paul Cézanne
and artworks
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ISBN: 978-1-78160-956-9
Contents
CHRONOLOGY
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
A
The Abduction
Afternoon in Naples (Rum Punch)
Apples and Biscuits
Apples and Oranges
The Aqueduct
Auvers, Panoramic View
B
The Banks of the Marne
The Banks of the Marne (Villa on the Bank of a River)
Bassin in Jas de Bouffan
Bathers
Bathers
Bathers
Bathers
Bathers (Study)
Bathers in Front of a Tent
Bay of Marseille from l’Estaque
Bibémus Quarry
The Black Scipion
The Blue Landscape
Blue Vase
A Bottle of Peppermint
Bread and Eggs
Bridge and Pool
Bridge in Maincy near Melun
The Buffet
C
The Château Noir
Court of a Farm in Auvers
D
Dish of Apples
Dish with Fruits and Drapery
E
The Eternal Female
F
Five Bathers
Flowers (Study)
Flowers in a Blue Vase
Flowers in a little Delft Vase
The Four Seasons
Fruit
Fruits
G
Gardanne
Girl at the Piano (Overture to “Tannhäuser”)
The Great Bather
The Great Bathers
The Great Pine (Mont Sainte-Victoire)
Great Pine near Aix
Green Pot and Tin Kettle
H
Harlequin
House and Farm in Jas de Bouffan
The House in Bellevue
The House of Dr. Gachet in Auvers
The House of the Hanged Man at Auvers
I
In the Park of the Château Noir
In the Park of the Château Noir
J
The Jas de Bouffan (detail)
L
The Lake at Annecy
Landscape at Aix (Mont Sainte-Victoire)
Landscape at Aix (Mont Sainte-Victoire)
Landscape in Provence
Luncheon on the Grass
M
Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair (Madame Cézanne in a Striped Skirt)
The Madeleine or Sorrow
Man in a Cotton Hat
Man Smoking a Pipe
Man Smoking a Pipe
Melting Snow at l’Estaque
Millstone
A Modern Olympia
Mont Sainte-Victoire
Mont Sainte-Victoire
Mont Sainte-Victoire
Mont Sainte-Victoire, View from Bellevue
Mont Sainte-Victoire, View from Bibémus
Mont Sainte-Victoire, View from Lauves
Mont Sainte-Victoire, View from Lauves
Murder
O
The Old Woman with a Rosary
P
Pastoral
Path in Jas de Bouffan
Path of Chestnut Trees in Jas de Bouffan in the Winter
Peaches and Pears
Pierrot and Harlequin (Mardi Gras)
Pitcher and Fruits
Pitcher, Fruits and Tablecloth
Plain by Mont Sainte-Victoire
Portrait of Anthony Valabrègue
Portrait of Madame Cézanne
Portrait of Paul Cézanne, Artist’s Son with Hat
Portrait of the Artist
Portrait of the Artist
Portrait of the Artist’s Father
Portrait of Vallier
R
Road at Pontoise (Clos des Mathurins)
Rocks in the Woods
S
Self-Portrait
Self-Portrait
Self-Portrait in a White Hat
Self-Portrait with a Pink Background
Self-Portrait with Cap
Self-Portrait with Palette
The Smoker
Still Life with a Chest of Drawers
Still Life with a Soup Tureen
Still Life with Basket
Still Life with Bottles and Apples
Still Life with Curtain
Still Life with Dish, Glass and Apples
The Strove in the Studio
Study for the Painting Mardi Gras
T
Tall Trees in Jas de Bouffan
The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Three Bathers
Three Skulls
Trees and House
Trees in a Park
Trees in a Park (The Jas de Bouffan)
Trench at the Foot of Mont Sainte-Victoire
Two Women and Child in an Interior
U
Uncle Dominic as a Monk
V
Vase of Flowers on a Table
View of the Château Noir
Village in Provence
W
Woman in Blue
Woman with a Coffee Pot
“When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.”
Paul Cézanne
Portrait of the Artist
1873-1876. Oil on canvas, 53 x 64 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Chronology
1839:
Paul Cézanne is born on January 19, in Aix-en-Provence.
1849-1851:
Studies as a half-boarder at the St. Joseph school together with Philippe Solari, the future sculptor, and Henri Gasquet.
1852-1858:
Studies at the Collège Bourbon in Aix, with Émile Zola and Baptistin Baille. Enrolls at the municipal school of drawing at the Aix Museum.
1859:
Stud