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Paul Cézanne

  • Writer: Zhang Kaixiang
    Zhang Kaixiang
  • Sep 24, 2018
  • 1 min read

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Lascaux

17,000 BC

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Highlight, comparison (with rock)

FORM/ COMPOSITION


Egyptian

3,200 BC


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Draw 2 arms & legs (reality in 2D)


Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio


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The Supper at Emmaus

Sophistication

Renaissance (the beginning of middle class), people gave money to the church to make art





Claude Monet


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Impression, Sunrise

Machinary device (camera) cannot express reality (feeling)

"Critic and humorist Louis Leroy wrote a scathing review in the newspaper Le Charivari in which, making wordplay with the title of Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), he gave the artists the name by which they became known. "


Paul Cezanne

French: Born & died in Aix-en-Provence

Friends: Zola and Baillie


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Bread and eggs 1865



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Head of An Old Man 1866



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Murder

Movement


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A Modern Olympia painting

"I want to make of impressionism something solid and lasting like the art in the museums"

"to create Poussin 'after nature'"

"to unite observation with the permanence永久 of classical composition "


BASIC ELEMENTS

Cone/ Cylinder/ Sphere



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Manet one


Pointillism


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Georges Seurat A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte 1886

Capture reality


Michel Eugène Chevreul

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