Pail Cezanne Flashcards
Name the Cezanne painting?
When was it painted?
Les Grandes Baigneuses
1839-1906
What key aspects of painting did Cezanne inspire for future painters?
What was this style called?
Ideas about form and colour
Post Impressionism.
What was diff about location where cezanne painted?
Shunned capitals. Chose native Aux-en-Provence in south France.
What did Cezanne paint mainly?
In later life?
Still lives, landscapes and portraits of everyday people who lived around him.
Nudes in a landscape. (Classical motif favoured by Venetian artistes Titian and Bellini)
What is different in Cezannes painting than others on tour?
Ni specific detailed rendering. Changes formal approach for better conceptual comprehension
What are two characteristics of the painting?
What two major effects do these have?
Series of triangles, drawing the soft forms upwards towards heavy sky. Outlines bodies with dark blue.
To link the motion of bodies with blues iof the sky.
To reduce complex female form into simple shapes.
Which artists did Cezannes painting inspire?
Picssso and matisse when on 1907 exhibition, year after death.
Why did cezanne choose this way of painting?
What inspired this?
His interpretation of modernity.
Social and industrial changes of 19th which had been affecting artistic style.
How does Cezanne take a scene and transform it into generic one?
He gives us tools to break down what we see into geometric forms of the painting.
By studying what can we appreciate the larger form of Cezannes painting?
Small irregular brushstrokes. Individual colours of cool palette.
