Cezanne - Visions of Great Painter
Cezanne: Visions of a Great Painter
“Often called the Father of Modern Painting, the extraordinary achievement of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) is one of vast scale and unsurpassed style and beauty. Aix-en-Provence, the lovely town of his birth in the south of France, provides the tranquil backdrop for the artist's long and often complicated life. From the days of his youth, early schooling, and the beginnings of a long friendship with the writer Émile Zola, through difficult but creative years in Paris, and thence to the respected old age of an established modern master. Cézanne's place of birth provided him with constant motifs and ties to hearth. Shy and reclusive, Cézanne nevertheless cultivated many friendships with the leading artists of his day. Also tempestuous and opinionated, the artist—while supporting the freedom of his Impressionist contem-poraries-distanced himself from any artistic school and developed a singular and sumptuous painterly style, recalling masters from the past and presaging art movements to come. While Cézanne considered figure painting to be of a high importance-his early portraits and the late "Bathers" series are well known—he is best remembered for his luminous still-lifes and his hauntingly beautiful landscapes. Cézanne believed that a new kind of painting was necessary to indelibly render the natural world he so revered. Artists must not merely imitate nature, he firmly believed, they must evoke wholly through their craft the world through which we perceive ourselves and upon which all life exists. With such a vision—and as a devoted, meditative, and determined artist and man—Cézanne successfully portrayed, as he had in all of his best work, his native Provençal environs with a timeless beauty that is both accessible and transcendent.”
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
DEVELOPMENT OF A PERSONAL STYLE
LANDSCAPE PAINTING
PORTRAITS
ALLEGORIES
STILL-LIFES
THE LATE WORK
Author: Henri Lallemand
Binding: Hardcover
Published Year: Todtri Productions 1994
Dimensions: H33cm, W24cm, D2cm
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Condition: Vintage condition, front of dust cover small upper tear in corner, back of dust cover small tear shown in pictures.
This book is by definition “used” and may show signs of natural age and/or use. All Used/Vintage/Antique books for sale via East Wing Studio are sold “as found” and as such we do not accept returns or refunds on these items. In addition to the description all photos act as part of the description so please review photos and descriptions carefully.
Cezanne: Visions of a Great Painter
“Often called the Father of Modern Painting, the extraordinary achievement of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) is one of vast scale and unsurpassed style and beauty. Aix-en-Provence, the lovely town of his birth in the south of France, provides the tranquil backdrop for the artist's long and often complicated life. From the days of his youth, early schooling, and the beginnings of a long friendship with the writer Émile Zola, through difficult but creative years in Paris, and thence to the respected old age of an established modern master. Cézanne's place of birth provided him with constant motifs and ties to hearth. Shy and reclusive, Cézanne nevertheless cultivated many friendships with the leading artists of his day. Also tempestuous and opinionated, the artist—while supporting the freedom of his Impressionist contem-poraries-distanced himself from any artistic school and developed a singular and sumptuous painterly style, recalling masters from the past and presaging art movements to come. While Cézanne considered figure painting to be of a high importance-his early portraits and the late "Bathers" series are well known—he is best remembered for his luminous still-lifes and his hauntingly beautiful landscapes. Cézanne believed that a new kind of painting was necessary to indelibly render the natural world he so revered. Artists must not merely imitate nature, he firmly believed, they must evoke wholly through their craft the world through which we perceive ourselves and upon which all life exists. With such a vision—and as a devoted, meditative, and determined artist and man—Cézanne successfully portrayed, as he had in all of his best work, his native Provençal environs with a timeless beauty that is both accessible and transcendent.”
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
DEVELOPMENT OF A PERSONAL STYLE
LANDSCAPE PAINTING
PORTRAITS
ALLEGORIES
STILL-LIFES
THE LATE WORK
Author: Henri Lallemand
Binding: Hardcover
Published Year: Todtri Productions 1994
Dimensions: H33cm, W24cm, D2cm
FREE Australia Wide Postage
Condition: Vintage condition, front of dust cover small upper tear in corner, back of dust cover small tear shown in pictures.
This book is by definition “used” and may show signs of natural age and/or use. All Used/Vintage/Antique books for sale via East Wing Studio are sold “as found” and as such we do not accept returns or refunds on these items. In addition to the description all photos act as part of the description so please review photos and descriptions carefully.
Cezanne: Visions of a Great Painter
“Often called the Father of Modern Painting, the extraordinary achievement of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) is one of vast scale and unsurpassed style and beauty. Aix-en-Provence, the lovely town of his birth in the south of France, provides the tranquil backdrop for the artist's long and often complicated life. From the days of his youth, early schooling, and the beginnings of a long friendship with the writer Émile Zola, through difficult but creative years in Paris, and thence to the respected old age of an established modern master. Cézanne's place of birth provided him with constant motifs and ties to hearth. Shy and reclusive, Cézanne nevertheless cultivated many friendships with the leading artists of his day. Also tempestuous and opinionated, the artist—while supporting the freedom of his Impressionist contem-poraries-distanced himself from any artistic school and developed a singular and sumptuous painterly style, recalling masters from the past and presaging art movements to come. While Cézanne considered figure painting to be of a high importance-his early portraits and the late "Bathers" series are well known—he is best remembered for his luminous still-lifes and his hauntingly beautiful landscapes. Cézanne believed that a new kind of painting was necessary to indelibly render the natural world he so revered. Artists must not merely imitate nature, he firmly believed, they must evoke wholly through their craft the world through which we perceive ourselves and upon which all life exists. With such a vision—and as a devoted, meditative, and determined artist and man—Cézanne successfully portrayed, as he had in all of his best work, his native Provençal environs with a timeless beauty that is both accessible and transcendent.”
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
DEVELOPMENT OF A PERSONAL STYLE
LANDSCAPE PAINTING
PORTRAITS
ALLEGORIES
STILL-LIFES
THE LATE WORK
Author: Henri Lallemand
Binding: Hardcover
Published Year: Todtri Productions 1994
Dimensions: H33cm, W24cm, D2cm
FREE Australia Wide Postage
Condition: Vintage condition, front of dust cover small upper tear in corner, back of dust cover small tear shown in pictures.
This book is by definition “used” and may show signs of natural age and/or use. All Used/Vintage/Antique books for sale via East Wing Studio are sold “as found” and as such we do not accept returns or refunds on these items. In addition to the description all photos act as part of the description so please review photos and descriptions carefully.