He would return to the same subjects again and again: forests and trees, fruit and faces, bathers in and out of water. For the renowned French artist Paul Cézanne, it was all about the effort: "I ...
Portraits by Cézanne at the Musée d’Orsay includes 60 psychologically loaded canvases from all periods of the artist’s career. Standing within the first gallery, I ask myself: If Cézanne means an ...
The most poignant detail of “Cezanne,” a co-exhibit between the Art Institute and London’s Tate Modern, is also one of its tiniest. If you’ve seen Paul Cezanne’s works on display before, you’ve ...
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These were the questions the curators of a new, once-in-a-generation retrospective of the French painter at the Art Institute of Chicago asked themselves as they went to work a few years back. When it ...
Paul Cézanne’s muse was not a person but a mountain. Montagne Sainte-Victoire, a mountain overlooking Aix-en-Provence in southern France, fascinated the visionary artist for decades, resulting in over ...
The first painting visitors to “Cezanne” at the Art Institute of Chicago encounter is “Undergrowth (Sous-Bois)” (c. 1894), a pine-forest scene painted from a bit below the trees, gazing up, with a ...
Paul Cézanne’s artistic muse had sweeping shoulders, an enigmatic face and majestic beauty that loomed over his life’s work. But that obsession was a mountain, not a woman. Seduced by the sun’s ...
“He is the father of us all,” Picasso is quoted as saying of Cézanne. In this remarkable exhibition of 60 portraits from Cézanne's entire career, on view at The National Gallery of Art in Washington D ...