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Cézanne

  • katiadolzhenkohar citeretfor 5 år siden
    But even in his most Impressionistic works he could never accept entirely the system of painting in tiny, divided brushstrokes which enabled Monet and Pissarro to achieve a sense of the continual changes of air and light.
  • katiadolzhenkohar citeretfor 5 år siden
    In addition, he was not satisfied with such unconditional dependence on the chromatic range provided by nature. He wanted to find a synthetic solution to all the harmonies offered by nature, and he strove for constructively well-thought-out space in a painting.
  • katiadolzhenkohar citeretfor 5 år siden
    Only in 1872 did he set out to work regularly in the open air.
  • katiadolzhenkohar citeretfor 5 år siden
    But Cézanne fully realized the need of mastering the light-and-air medium and to this end was prepared to forego some of his discoveries. That was one of the reasons why he became close to the Impressionists in the 1870s.
  • katiadolzhenkohar citeretfor 5 år siden
    For an artist with Cézanne’s keen sense of the dramatic complexity of the world, a simple representation of the visible was insufficient. He would constantly modify and deform figures, emphasizing in them what he thought to be most important and creating compositions with unstable equilibrium.
  • katiadolzhenkohar citeretfor 5 år siden
    He was immersed in an imaginary fantasy world, consumed by the desire to express an irresistible flood of human passion.
  • katiadolzhenkohar citeretfor 5 år siden
    Often Cézanne would take a knife and scrape off all he had managed to paint during a day of hard work, or in a fit of exasperation throw it out of the window.
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    They are the tragedy of his whole life — a tragedy of constant doubting, dissatisfaction, and lack of confidence in his own ability.
  • katiadolzhenkohar citeretfor 5 år siden
    In each succeeding work he would try to overcome the imperfection of the previous one, to make it more finished than before: “I am long on hair and beard but short on talent.”
  • katiadolzhenkohar citeretfor 5 år siden
    Cézanne himself, with his constant laments about the impossibility of conveying his own sensations, prompted critics to speak of the fragmentary character of his work. He saw each of his paintings as nothing but an incomplete part of the whole.
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