Поль Сезанн - Фрукты 1879

Dish of apples 1879 Farmyard 1879 Flowers and fruit 1879 Fruit 1879 Landscape with waterline 1879 L'Estaque view through the trees 1879 Path at the entrance to the forest 1879
Поль Сезанн - Фрукты 1879

Фрукты 1879
45x55см холст/масло
The State Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg

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From The State Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg:
It is hard to overemphasize the importance of still life paintings in the work of Cezanne. The world of ordinary objects attracted the artist with the potential expressiveness of three-dimensional forms. Although the theme recalls the still lives of the Old Masters, with its china, napkins and fruits, unlike those painters Cezanne was indifferent to texture, seeking to bring out in each element the concrete form and mass of the object. The very simplicity of the forms gives them a strange unity. Placing the objects such that they did not hide or detract from one another, Cezanne ensured that each expressed its full significance. Each object has a stable, unchanging colour, the blue tinge suggesting a certain thickness to the air. Rejecting Impressionism, Cezanne sought to capture not the passing moment but the expression of the permanent and the eternal.