Upload
serena-tanchella
View
38
Download
0
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
Post – impressionism
PAUL CÉZANNE
PAUL CÉZANNE (1839-1906) : SCIENTIFIC POST-IMPRESSIONISM
KEY IDEAS Tightly organized and structured compositions analytical
approach to nature
Methodical application of color (thick layers) that fused drawing and modelling into a single process
“constructions after nature”: elements from the three-dimensional world are translated into patterns of shapes and colors arranged on a flat canvas
Reality seen as a set of geometric solids
Aims at the creation of an autonomous reality, parallel harmonious dimension
IMPRESSIONISM VS
CÉZANNE’S POST-IMPRESSIONISM
IMPRESSIONISM
o Aims at capturing transitory and fleeting effects of light and atmosphere
o Ephemeral and evanescent quality of artworks
o Concerned with the effects of light and reflected color
o Color used as an end in itselfo Painting is primarily a reflection
of visual perception
CÉZANNE’S POST-IMPRESS.
Looks for the essence of life that lies in the geometric “decomposition of reality”
Solid and compact quality of compositions
Concerned with form Color is seen as a tool with
which form and space con be constructed (color – form: can’t be separated)
No imitation of reality but rather a creation of a parallel autonomous reality
The Card Players btw 1890 and 1895 - oil on canvas H. 47.5; W. 57 cm Paris - Musée d'Orsay
wide planes of colour applied with short strokes of a loaded brush
Reflection on the bottle of wine : is the axe of the composition
Symmetrical bipartition of the composition
Two figures constructed on geometric solidse.g. arms are cylinders
Setting: ordinary barProvencal peasants in mundane activities
Diagonal and specular lines
Intellectual construction based on forms, spaces, perspectives, volumes + geometrical composition of the parts
Analysis of the two card players’ position and role ogival hat, soft and battered
light yellow ochre
his back isn’t leaning back in the chair but projected forward
Fluttering corner of the tablecloth
The player who is choosing the card to be played – he’s going to play
his back is parallel to the chair
darker and more uniform colors – thick brushstrokes
Pipe is parallel to the shirt’s collar
poised and firm hat
More relaxed and cool player – he’s waiting for the other player
stable right angle
Mount Saint Victoire - Aix-en-Provence, the hometown of Paul Cézanne• Many oil painting and watercolors of it, the painter was deeply
associated with it• Showed from different points of view (last years of his life)• He builds forms (houses, fields, clouds, ..)by using harmony and
contrasts of colors• Vigorous and flat brushstrokes applied on the canvas• The form disappears into several facets leads to cubism
Mount Saint Victoire seen from Lauves 1902-1904oil on canvas, Philadelphia Museum of Art
THE SKY: -has the same color of the mountain but different thickness. - Predominance of light blue + grey
THE COUNTRYSIDE (natural elements) + ARCHITECTURE: green and ochre
LOWER PART: darker colors suggest a thicker vegetation
overlapping of 3 different chromatic levels (horizontal sections)– effect of geometric decomposition
Mount Saint Victoire seen from Lauves 1906oil on canvas - Kansas City Museum
-One of the last views of the mountain
-The form disappears into many facets
- deconstruction of nature into units anticipates the experiments with form, perception and space carried out under cubism
1907 Salon d’Autumn (Paris) a huge posthumous retrospective in his honour was staged