This Is Cézanne

Author : Jorella Andrews
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 1780674783

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This is Cézanne by Jorella Andrews Pdf

Paul Cézanne challenged convention, and proposed new possibilities for modern art. He was remarkable for his ability to perceive and paint everyday places, people, and things in ways that revealed the multiplicity and beauty of vision, while also unveiling the deep, cohesive structures of the visible world. But the intellectual and emotional difficulties of his achievements were considerable. Mainly self-taught, most of his career was plagued by rejection. The critics, and the public, disliked his paintings and, in 1884, Cézanne declared that Paris, the center of the nineteenth-century art world, had defeated him. Repeatedly, he retreated into self-doubt and bad temper. This book follows Cézanne on his extraordinary artistic journey, focusing on his formative discoveries, made not in the flashy, fashionable metropolis but in provincial and rural France and often in isolation. This title is appropriate for ages 14 and up

Author : Alex Danchev
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780307377074

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Cézanne by Alex Danchev Pdf

A major biography--the first comprehensive new assessment to be published in decades--of the brilliant work and restless life of Paul Cezanne, the most influential painter of his time, whose vision revolutionized the role of the painter.

Author : Paul Cézanne,Phillips Collection
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000010287262

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Cezanne by Paul Cézanne,Phillips Collection Pdf

Author : Amy Guglielmo
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780525515098

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Cezanne's Parrot by Amy Guglielmo Pdf

An inspiring picture book biography of the artist Paul Cezanne, the painter who laid the groundwork for modern art and whom Pablo Picasso declared "the father of us all." All Cezanne wants is to be a great painter like his friends Monet, Pissarro, and Renoir. But when he shows his works, the professors, the critics, and the collectors all dismiss him: "Too flat!" "Too much paint!" "These are rough and unfinished!" Even his own pet parrot, Bisou, can't be brought to say, "Cezanne is a great painter!" And who can blame them? Cezanne doesn't care about tradition, and he doesn't follow the rules. He's painting in a way no one else has done before, creating something completely new--and he's destined to change the world of art forever. Cezanne's Parrot is a spirited celebration of creativity, determination, and perseverance--and the artist who would become known as the father of modern art.

Author : André Dombrowski,Nancy Ireson,Sylvie Patry
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780847864881

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Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation by André Dombrowski,Nancy Ireson,Sylvie Patry Pdf

A monumental volume devoted to one of the world’s largest and most spectacular collections of Cézannes. The Barnes Foundation’s holdings of works by the renowned Post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)—sixty-one oils on canvas and eight works on paper—are among the most significant in the world. The Barnes Foundation was established in 1922 by scientist, entrepreneur, and educator Dr. Albert C. Barnes, a passionate supporter of European modernism. His virtually unrivaled collection, which can only be viewed at the Barnes Foundation, also includes exceptional paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and many others. Beginning in 1912, Barnes acquired works by Cézanne from major Paris dealers such as Paul Durand-Ruel and soon ranked among the artist’s most prominent collectors. At the time, this expressed a pioneering taste that Barnes shared with only a small group of enthusiasts, even though Cézanne had been posthumously hailed as a father of modern art at the turn of the twentieth century. The foundation’s impressive holdings of Cézannes—never before published in a single study in their entirety—span every period of the artist’s career and include his largest rendition of The Card Players and one of the three versions of The Large Bathers, one of his signal testaments. This lavishly illustrated landmark volume is both a work on Cézanne and his time, and an impetus for further study of an artist whose oeuvre is at once luminous, austere, challenging, and deeply confounding.

Author : Julian Beecroft
Publisher : Flame Tree Illustrated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 1839641606

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Paul Cézanne Masterpieces of Art by Julian Beecroft Pdf

Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) is arguably one of the most important artists in the development of modern art, being as he was a key bridge between the stirrings of airy abstraction in Impressionism and the solid redefinition of space espoused by Cubism. Exhibiting with – but often apart – from the Impressionists, always striving to please the establishment and yet ultimately following his own path to find new ways of representing visual experience, his work is suffused with life and colour but also retains its power in the knowledge of its influence. This gorgeous book introduces the reader to Cézanne through an accessible discussion of the artist in context, his life, work and legacy, followed by a curated selection of full-page reproductions of his most representative and impressive work, from his many portraits and still lifes to his figure groups (the iconic bathers) and landscapes (his precious Montagne Sainte-Victoire).

Author : Sidney Geist
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Art
ISBN : 0674459555

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Interpreting Cézanne by Sidney Geist Pdf

In this remarkable book the sculptor and writer Sidney Geist presents a revolutionary interpretation of the art of Cézanne. Geist argues that Cézanne's paintings are fertile with reflections of the artist's private world and passionate concerns. Looking at more than two hundred works, all reproduced in the book, he identifies the symbolism that gives form to a hidden significance in the paintings--concealed allusions to Cézanne himself and to his relations with his wife and mother, his father, his son, and his friend Zola, as well as a circle of colleagues including Pissarro, Frederic Bazille, and Ambroise Vollard. It is a complex pattern of symbols expressed in both secondary visual images and in verbal connections, including rebuses and puns. In reading these paintings for symbolic meaning Geist opens the way to a fuller understanding of Cézanne as well as to new ways of looking at pictures. Interpretation of this kind in its turn explains formal aspects of the paintings with a richness not possible in abstract analysis.

Author : Laurence Anholt
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Childrens Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 184780604X

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Cézanne and the Apple Boy by Laurence Anholt Pdf

Paul Cezanne was one of the greatest of the French impressionist painters. This delightful book follows his son, also called Paul, as he travels to the mountains to spend a summer with his father. He discovers that his father, a very large man, paints the natural world with a passion that few can understand. But one day they meet an art dealer in a village who offers to try to sell some of the paintings in Paris ... the rest is history. The reader gains a real insight into Cezanne the man through the eyes of a child - sometimes frightening, fastidious (he won't touch other people), warm-hearted, driven by a passion for his art. And it provides a vivid introduction to Cezanne's work, with reproductions of his most famous paintings incorporated in the illustrations.

Author : Pavel Machotka,Paul Cézanne
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300067019

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Cézanne by Pavel Machotka,Paul Cézanne Pdf

Study of the famous impressionist's landscape paintings.

Author : Ulrike Becks-Malorny
Publisher : Taschen
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 3822856428

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Paul Cézanne, 1839-1906 by Ulrike Becks-Malorny Pdf

From banker to painter - Cezanne and the Impressionists - Harmony in parallel with nature - Still lifes - Mont Saint-Victoire - Latter years.

Author : Roberta Bernabei
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783791348254

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Cézanne by Roberta Bernabei Pdf

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Paul Cézanne makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation. Widely regarded as the bridging link between late 19th-century Impressionism and Cubism, Cézanne's work is characterized by his intense study of his subjects. Overflowing with impeccably reproduced images, this book offers full-page spreads of masterpieces as well as highlights of smaller details, allowing the viewer to appreciate every aspect of the artist's technique and oeuvre.

Author : Jodi Hauptman,Samantha Friedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 1633451267

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Cézanne: Drawing by Jodi Hauptman,Samantha Friedman Pdf

Cézanne at his most modern: a major career-spanning appraisal of his extraordinarily experimental drawings Although he is most often celebrated as a painter, Paul Cézanne's extraordinary vision was fueled by his experiments on paper. In pencil and watercolor, on individual sheets and across the pages of sketchbooks, the artist described form through multiple probing lines; realized compositions through repetitions and transformations; and conjured kaleidoscopic color through layering of watercolor. It is in these material realities of drawing where we see Cézanne at his most modern: embracing the unfinished, making process visible and actively inviting the viewer to participate in the act of perception. Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, this is the most significant effort to date to unite drawings from across Cézanne's entire career, tracing the development of his practice on paper, exploring working methods that transcend subject, and devoting both curatorial and conservation-based research to these remarkable works.

Author : Paul Cézanne
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520225171

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Conversations with Cézanne by Paul Cézanne Pdf

This book gathers the commentary of people who knew the painter Paul Cezanne, especially in his later years. Now seen as one of the most influential of modern painters, in his 40s he returned to his village of Aix-en-Provence where, he worked in near obscurity and with great dedication until his death in 1906.

Author : Paul Cézanne,Richard Kendall
Publisher : Little Brown GBR
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Painting, French
ISBN : 0316727954

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Cézanne by Himself by Paul Cézanne,Richard Kendall Pdf

CEZANNE BY HIMSELF is a major volume on the life and work of Paul Cezanne (1836-1906), a painter whose innovative ideas of representation set him apart from his contemporaries and led the way for a new school of art. This edition distinguishes itself by combining the artist's correspondence and the memoirs of his friends with a sweeping selection of reproductions of his works. One of the most influential of nineteenth-century artists, Cezanne exhibited in his work a concern with form and structure that presaged the development of Modernism. It was this aspect of his work that led a subsequent generation of art historians to dub him the first 'post-Impressionist'. Despite his artistic achievements and education, however, Cezanne was ill at ease in the cafes and salons of the Paris art world. This book is the first fully illustrated account to show the paradoxes and contradictions of Cezanne's personality through his own writings and the reminiscences of his contemporaries, and it provides fascinating evidence of his friendships and family life.

Author : Kathleen Tracy
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1584155655

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Paul Cézanne by Kathleen Tracy Pdf

Paul Cezanne is considered the father of modern art, but his road to artistic immortality was paved with professional obstacles and self-doubt. Born to a wealthy family, Cezanne turned his back on his father's banking business and moved to Paris to pursue a career as an artist. The rigid style of traditional painting did not interest him. He believed all the rules prevented artists from fully expressing themselves. Rather than conform, he fell in with a group of maverick artists known as the Impressionists. What set Cezanne apart was his use of color and light. He also took his canvases outside to paint in natural light. Cezanne worked in anonymity for most of his life, struggling with critical rejection, destroyed friendships, and isolation. It wasn't until after his death that he earned the recognition that had eluded him in life. Book jacket.