PAUL CÉZANNE

ANALYSIS OF WORKS AND STYLE OF

PAINTINGSHARSHITA HAJELA

Paul Cézann

e1839 – 1906

Cézanne was a Post Impressionist. He was creating impressions

on the canvas, but his techniques were

peculiar to that of the Avant Garde. He said about his ambition-

‘to make of Impressionism

something solid and durable like the art of

museums’.

He was one of the pioneer inspiration for Modern art styles like

Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism in the early 20th century era

• His early works were show cased in first exhibition of the Salon des Refusés in 1863 (exhibiting paintings which were rejected by Parisian Salon)

• In 1882 he exhibited Portrait de M. L. A in Parisian Salon.

• 1895 Cézanne exhibited twice with the Impressionists (at the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874 and the third Impressionist exhibition in 1877.

• In 1895, Parisian dealer Ambroise Vollard, gave the artist his first solo exhibition.

Paul CézanneRecognitions

Cezanne regarded colour, line, and "form" as constituting one and the same thing, or inseparable aspects for describing how the human eye actually

experiences nature.

Portrait of Uncle Dominique as a Monk, 1866 Kitchen Table (Still Life With Basket), 1888-1890

Unfinished Bathers

Cézanne's Impressionist

Style

Cézanne was a Post Impressionist. He was creating impressions on the canvas, but his techniques were peculiar to that of the Avant-

garde. He used flattened image making technique with giving lesser significance to perceivable perspective. His style was direct and

non-representational.

The Fishermen (Fantastic Scene), ca. 1875.

Still Life with Cherub, 1895

Inspirations to Cubism

Cézanne during the last period of his life began experimenting with his style in which he often used colour patches to represent what he

saw (maybe because of his diminishing eyesight). Pablo Picasso drew his inspiration of cubism from the style of Cézanne specially

the flat plane style and painting in patches of colour .

Mount Sainte-Victoire, 1904

Boulders Near the Caves Above Château-Noir, 1904

The initiative of Abstraction

Cézanne’s later versions of bathers are full of experimental styles towards abstract imagery of the body. Picasso picked up elemental

features of the characters in Bathers, specially their distorted bodies and missing bodily details including of the face .

Bathers, 1900-1905

• Cezanne was a nativist. He loved and painted with which he could associate. Hence his favourite subjects included Portraits of people known to him and landscapes which inspired him. He often repainted same subject over and over again in aim for perfection .

• Apart from that he painted imagined figures of male and female nudes in his popular series of Bathers.

• He very rarely created a controlled environment for his works, which he often kept arranged in his studio as inspirations.

Paul CézanneFavourite subjects

1885-1887 1887 (Water colour) 1897

1898-1902 1904-19061904

Cézanne's fascination with Mount Sainte-Victoire

1870

1890-1995 (Water colour)

1895-19061874-1875

1890-1904 1906

Cézanne's series of Bathers

Glimpses of works of Paul Cézanne

"We must not paint what we think we see,

but what we see .. sometimes it may go against the grain, but this is what our craft

demands."