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Paul Cézanne 1839-1906 “the Father of Modern Art?”

Paul Cézanne 1839-1906 “the Father of Modern Art?”. “I want to make of Impressionism something solid & durable like the art of museums.” “I owe you the truth in painting & I will tell it to you.” “I paint as I see, as I feel, & I have very strong sensations.”

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Paul Cézanne 1839-1906 “the Father of Modern Art?”

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  1. Paul Cézanne 1839-1906“the Father of Modern Art?” “I want to make of Impressionism something solid & durable like the art of museums.” “I owe you the truth in painting & I will tell it to you.” “I paint as I see, as I feel, & I have very strong sensations.” “…treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.”

  2. Dialectical in its complexity • cognitive & perceptual mechanisms • seeing & representing • individual apperception & facts of material reality • intellectual rigor & sensual desirability • reconciliation of the objective & the subjective • an art of sensual liberation & one of formal rigor

  3. Three basic principles of Cézanne’s pictorial invention: • Holding illusionism at bay: purposeful avoidance of linear clarity & perspectival exactness • Use of tectonic facture, or passage: the brushstroke shape, size, boundary, & direction is independent of the structure & texture of the objects that represented. • A consistent concentration upon the edges of things: the most important part of the picture are where the objects meet; at these junctions, colors are juxtaposed & the drama of surface and depth (sensation & understanding) is enacted.

  4. In Summary: • Cézanne offered a new way of perceiving reality defining the surface appearance through colored planes building the image inch by inch, brick by brick • passage: the bleeding/modulation of color & edges (negotiating your passage across the surface & at the same time a passage into the depths of the depicted space) • Cézanne tried to grasp nature through its underlying structure--to make nature solid & durable in contrast to the fleeting & momentary as represented in Impressionist art • Cézanne liberated art from reproducing reality by reducing reality to its basic components & by modeling/modulating with color • Cézanne integrates eye & idea; form & color; linear structure & painterly freedom

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