The subject matter of this painting couldn’t be more traditional, but its formal characteristics make it modern.
Cézanne
Cezanne gets freaky with the conventions of landscape painting in this fuzzy image of a hot day.
Paul Cézanne, The Red Rock
Cézanne takes classical forms and makes them subservient to the canvas—paving the way for Matisse and Picasso.
Paul Cézanne, The Large Bathers
Reinterpreting a subject beloved by past artists like Caravaggio, Cézanne “adds a link” to the history of art.
Paul Cézanne, The Card Players
Cézanne’s lifelong love affair with the landscape of Aix-en-Provence reaches its peak in his mountain images.
Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire
A small brown smudge in the background of this awkward painting hints at Cézanne’s ingenuity.
Paul Cézanne, Turning Road at Montgeroult
All conventions of perspective are called into question in Cézanne’s meditation on the nature of experience.
Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Plaster Cupid
By the nineteenth century, the still life was an outmoded and undervalued subject—but Cezanne brought it back.
Paul Cézanne, The Basket of Apples
This bizarre, asymmetrical figure begs an important question: was Cezanne even a good painter?
Paul Cézanne, The Bather
Never quite at home with the Impressionists in Paris, Cezanne was a perpetual misfit with a unique vision.
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