Post 6

Hello Everybody!!!

This time I’m going to talk about one of my favorite artists: Paul Cezanne. He was born in France in 1839, and he was an impressionist (or post- impressionist) artist. He is very important because his work was considered as an inspiration for others painters, the vanguard painters like: Picasso, Braque, Matisse, etc.

Cezanne trough colors tried to capture “the sensation” in his paintings. I can say that, this idea was a little revolutionary for those times, because, he gradually drifted apart from the impressionism.  This way of thinking had an explication, this was because Cezanne was against the oratory and narrative painting, to him the most important thing to paint is the motive. 

The key in Cezanne is the sensation, and for it has a place, the artist has to leave the motive. The artist has to make an abandon to the motive. For example we can see in the sequence of painting about the “Sánte-Victoire”mountain, how Cezanne’s motive is the mountain but what we can see is the translation to that motive, the mountain. Is for that reason that we can see the mountain paint in front or in other case we can see it painting from other point of view like a street, in Cezanne’s words “the intentional look”.