Cézanne

by Hajo Düchting, Virginie de Bermond-Gettle (Translator)

Monographie sur l'œuvre de Cézanne qui permet d'avoir une vue d'ensemble de son travail ainsi que de l'évolution de sa technique picturale.
--- Monograph on Cézanne's work that provides an overview of his work and the evolution of his painting technique. S'il est souvent associé au mouvement impressionniste, Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) s'en détache pourtant rapidement. Ses recherches esthétiques sur les volumes, la perspective, les formes et les couleurs, à travers de nombreuses peintures mortes, mais aussi les paysages de sa Provence natale, l'amènent progressivement vers l'abstraction et font de lui un précurseur de l'art moderne. Découvrez l'évolution d'un peintre qui a su transposer en peinture sa vision unique du monde.

Languages : Fr. En.
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Although he is often associated with the Impressionist movement, Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) quickly broke away from it. His aesthetic research on volumes, perspective, shapes and colors, through numerous still life paintings, but also the landscapes of his native Provence, gradually lead him to abstraction and make him a precursor of modern art. Discover the evolution of a painter who knew how to transpose in painting his unique vision of the world.

290 pages, Hardcover

Published March 2, 2017

Reviews

[P.E. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fractured Perspective


Paul Alexis lisant à Zola (1869-70)

'Quick-tempered, but otherwise reserved and moody, Paul had few friends growing up, but he was unflinching in standing up for those who were weaker. He met his younger schoolmate Émile Zola at the Collège Bourbon by coming to his aid during a schoolyard brawl. Zola's father was in town working on a dam project near Aix. Soon the two romantic enthusiasts and nature lovers became close friends.'

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A well-balanced introduction to the art of Paul Cézanne, offering biographical notes, some technical precisions about the distinctive traits of the artist and the salient points throughout his life. This is a work from the same collection as the one I read a few weeks ago about Claude Monet (Monet Claude) and Paul Klee (Paul Klee).

As it was described in this work, the relationship between Cézanne and his wife and model Hortense Fiquet saddened me somewhat.

'Cézanne also painted large figure paintings in Aix, often putting his models in uncomfortable poses for hours. Madame Cézanne frequently had to serve this purpose and there are some pictures of her from this period that show her with a rather strict, absent demeanour. The estrangement between the couple had reached a point where Cézanne found himself able to paint his wife as "objectively" as an apple or a tree.'

La dame en bleu (1900-04)
[This is one of many portraits of Cézanne's wife, Hortense Fiquet]

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'[Cézanne's] image was subject to different laws than the normal perceptual space. Each object claims its own space within the image and yet still wants to be closely linked with the other elements in the picture. Cézanne thus did not keep his still lifs with a linear perspective and a fixed vanishing point, but instead used a multi-layered, fractured perspective that gives the objects a subjective sense of space.'

La Femme à la cafetière (1890-5)


La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves (1904-06)

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See also:
Le Ventre de Paris / The Belly of Paris
L'Œuvre / The Masterpiece