{"id":3446,"date":"2017-02-17T20:48:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T02:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidesuburbia.com\/?p=3446"},"modified":"2021-06-09T20:40:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T01:40:11","slug":"paul-cezanne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidesuburbia.com\/art\/paul-cezanne\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Cezanne and Sainte-Victoire: The man and his mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Aix-en-Provence is a quaint town that is full of French countryside charm, colorful Provencal markets, Plane tree line streets where every fountain holds a secret, each mansion house has a story to tell. Paul Cezanne\u2019s colors are all around you, you\u2019ll actually feel like you\u2019re meeting the painter amongst the places and landscapes and his favorite mountain – Sainte-Victoire which marked the life, the eye and the work of the father of modern painting<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sainte-Victoire Mountain that Cezzane painted over and over again<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Paul Cezanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cezanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century’s new line of artistic inquiry, Cubism. Both Matisse and Picasso referred to Cezanne “is the father of us all”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Art is a harmony parallel with nature. – Paul Cezanne<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Cezanne’s work demonstrates a mastery of design, color, composition and draftsmanship. His often repetitive, sensitive and exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He is said to have used planes of color and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields, at once both a direct expression of the sensations of the observing eye and an abstraction from observed nature. The paintings convey Cezanne’s intense study of his subjects, a searching gaze and a dogged struggle to deal with the complexity of human visual perception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sainte-Victoire mountain near C\u00e9zanne’s home in Aix-en-Provence was one of his favorite subjects and he is known to have painted it over 60 times. C\u00e9zanne was fascinated by the rugged architectural forms in the mountains of Provence and painted the same scene from many different angles. He would use bold blocks of color to achieve a new spatial effect known as “flat-depth” to accommodate the unusual geological forms of the mountains. Paul C\u00e9zanne traveled widely in the Provence <\/a>region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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