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The Move Toward Modernism: A Look at Cezanne

Chapter 31Humanities 103

Instructor Beth Camp

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Challenge Questions:

Do the paintings by Cezanne reinforce or contradict your understanding of non-representational art? Of abstract painting?

As you view these works, select two paintings which you think are “most representative” of Cezanne’s work.

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Cezanne: 1839-1906

•Early paintings: Cezanne created fantastic dreamlike scenes and used a heavy palette knife

•1872 Cezanne met Monet and began using color to show perspective and light to “recreate nature”

•Accomplishments: Cezanne developed new type of spatial pattern, showing objects from shifting viewpoints and simple shapes. Strongly influenced CUBISM

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Cezanne

Portrait of the Artist's Fatherc. 1866

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Cezanne: The Abduction, 1867

Does this painting show the influence of the Romantic era? How?

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Cezanne: Bathers at Rest, 1875-1876

Does the use of light here suggest an Impressionist influence?

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Cezanne: Large Bathers, 1899-1906

Can you find triangles in the composition of this painting?

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Cezanne: Still Life with Apples, 1895-1898

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Cezanne (1839-1905)

•Later years:

•Major subject was a large mountain near his home, Mont Sainte-Victoire

•With these paintings, Cezanne “abstracted what he considered nature’s depest truth – its essential tension between stasis and change” (Stokstad 1035)

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Cezanne: Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1885-1895

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Cezanne: Bay from L'Estaquec, 1886

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Cezanne:The Card Players, 1890-1892

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Cezanne

Madame Cézanne1885-1887

Notice how Cezanne creates emotion with color and light

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Cezanne

Self-Portrait with Rose Backgroundc. 1875

Did van Gogh influence the background of this painting?

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Cezanne

Self-Portrait with Soft Hatc. 1894

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What’s Next?

Challenge Question: In what ways did Cezanne contribute to

nonrepresentational art? Can you see how Cezanne influenced

Picasso?

Sources: Slides. Mark Hardin’s Artchive online. Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. New

York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999.