La Montage Saint-Victoire, Paul Cezanne

Question 1

One-Liner

Answer 1

Painting of a vibrant countryside landscape with trees, farmland and a vast mountain

Question 2

Line

Answer 2

Varied brushtrokes
- In the landscape they are subtle and geometric, defining houses and land
- In the foreground pine tree they are large, flowing and expressive, creating movement and rhythym

Question 3

Shape

Answer 3

• Organic shapes are used to depict the mountain, trees, and surrounding terrain/ geometric shapes for houses
• Not onyl does the variety of shapes create balance, yet reflects Cézanne’s scientific approach to painting in the underlying principals and structure of nature instead of it’s fleeting visual impressions

Question 4

Space

Answer 4

• Spacial Planes - Foreground (tree), middle-ground (farmland) and background (mountains)
• Vast and open, with the mountain dominating the background and the landscape extending into the distance
• Creates depth, perspective and distance

Question 5

Colour

Answer 5

• Rejects “capturing a fleeing moment”

Uses colour to create depth and perspective:
- cool blues in mountain receedes the already vast background
- warm colours brings foreground closer to viewer

Question 6

Texture

Answer 6

• Visible brushtrokes surface that suggests the roughness of the terrain
• Expressing the qualities of the medium, an aspect borrowed from impressionism

Question 7

How does Cézanne’s work capture aspects of post-impressionism

Answer 7

• Cézanne emphasies his emotional connection to the scene with focus on depth rather than impressionists’ quick impressions of light and a fleeting moment
• However, aspects of impressionism are borrowed in in expressing the qualities of the medium