Paul Cézanne: Drawings and Watercolors
- ISBN-10
- 1606064649
- ISBN-13
- 9781606064641
- Series
- Paul Cézanne
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015
- Author
- Christopher Lloyd
Description
Résumé sur le rabat de la 1ère de couverture: "Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), according to the writer Joachim Gasquet, produced artwork derived from "the most acute sensibility at grips with the most searching rationality". Honoring tradition while also challenging it, he had a tremendous influence on younger artists of his day, such as Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Georges Braque, thereby pabing the way for the emergence of modern art. Cézanne's novel approach is evident in the large body of work he left behind, including nearly one thousand painting, more than six hundred watercolors, and roughly fifteen hundred drawings. Cézanne himself made no real distinction between drawing and painting. His drawing were clearly executed with deliberation and purpose, confirming their centrality in his artistic practice, while many of his watercolors are equal to his painting. In fact, his watercolors from the 1890s onward - most of them landscapes and still lifes executed in his native Provence - were undertaken as work of art in their own right and rank among the finest achievements in his difficult medium from any period. This beautifully illustrated volume traces the development of Cézanne's style through his drawings and watercolors. Diverse in subject matter and execution, these works on paper include copies of other masters'work, studies of his immediate family and their domestic surroundings, preliminary ideas for finished compositions, and the results of his extended engagement with the Provençal landscape. They reveal Cézanne as someone deeply commited to devising a process of comprehending and recording the world as he saws it as accurately as possible. The result is some of the most absorbing art ever created."
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Blue Book of Art Values: Artists & Their Works from Around the World
By William Edwin DayBlue Book of Art Values: Artists & Their Works from Around the World
-
New Deal Art in Alabama: The Murals, Sculptures and Other Works, and Their Creators
By Anita Price Davis, Jimmy S. EmersonPeter Jennings and Todd Brewster, The Century (New York: Doubleday, 1998), 154. 8. Time-Life Editors, This Fabulous Century, Vol. IV, 23. 9.
-
The World of Bob Timberlake
By Bob TimberlakeOffers a selection of eighty-seven full-color reproductions of Timberlake's paintings, with an introduction by the painter
-
The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop
By Karen L. Maness, Richard M. IsackesTHE FERRELL BROTHERS, WILBUR AND WARREN , in their own words "were not known as singular artists but a duo." Wilbur began his career as a motion picture ...
-
John Singer Sargent and His Muse: Painting Love and Loss
By Karen Corsano, Daniel WillimanAdelson, Warren, “John Singer Sargent and the 'New Painting,'” in Stanley Olson, Warren Adelson, and Richard Ormond, Sargent at Broadway: The Impressionist ...
-
The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop
By Karen L. Maness, Richard M. IsackesThis is a rich undiscovered history—a history replete with competing art departments, dynastic scenic families, and origins stretching back to the films of Méliès, Edison, Sennett, Chaplin, and Fairbanks.
-
Chaos and Cosmos: On the Image in Aesthetics and Art History
By Karen LangThrough careful research, Carol Gibson-Wood exposes the mythology surrounding the Morellian method, especially the mythology of the coherence and primacy of his method of attribution. She argues that it “could also be said that Berenson ...
-
Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and the Forgotten Jews of Antiquity
By Karen B. SternGibson translates from the Phoenician: “Beware! Behold, there is disaster for you ... !” (SSI 3, no. 5=KAI nr. 2). Examples from Cyprus include SSI 3, no. 12=KAI nr. 30. Gibson's translation of the Phoenician reads (SSI 3, ...
-
Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960
By Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Kevin Stayton, Brooklyn Museum of ArtExamines the emergence of abstract organic forms and their assimilation into the popular arts and culture of American life from 1940-1960, covering advertising, decorative arts, commercial design, and the fine arts.
-
Typography: A Very Short Introduction
By Paul Luna... S. Newman ACCOUNTING Christopher Nobes ADAM SMITH Christopher J. Berry ADOLESCENCE Peter K. Smith ADVERTISING ... ALGEBRA Peter M. Higgins AMERICAN CULTURAL HISTORY Eric Avila AMERICAN HISTORY Paul S. Boyer AMERICAN IMMIGRATION ...