The Shock of the NewAn illustrated history of modern art describes the origins of modern painting, sculpture, and architecture, shows how world events affected the art, and explains why the movement is near its end. |
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... Cézanne's whole effort was directed towards the physical world - the shapes of Mont Ste - Victoire , of the tumbled inchoate rocks of the Bibémus quarry , of six dense red apples or his gardener's face . The idea of Cézanne as the ...
... Cézanne's whole effort was directed towards the physical world - the shapes of Mont Ste - Victoire , of the tumbled inchoate rocks of the Bibémus quarry , of six dense red apples or his gardener's face . The idea of Cézanne as the ...
Page 27
... Cézanne's own motifs , and in the summer of 1908 he went off to paint in L'Estaque , in the South of France , where Cézanne had worked . His work there began as almost straight Cézanne . How it developed can best be seen by comparing a ...
... Cézanne's own motifs , and in the summer of 1908 he went off to paint in L'Estaque , in the South of France , where Cézanne had worked . His work there began as almost straight Cézanne . How it developed can best be seen by comparing a ...
Page 125
... Cézanne loathed the stylization of Gauguin , his sinuous outlines and decorative flatness , because it was too simple , and he was trying to kick Bernard out of imitating it ; but few young painters knew enough to see Cézanne's immense ...
... Cézanne loathed the stylization of Gauguin , his sinuous outlines and decorative flatness , because it was too simple , and he was trying to kick Bernard out of imitating it ; but few young painters knew enough to see Cézanne's immense ...
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