Example of impressionist painting10/3/2023 ![]() ![]() This work can be considered one of the origins of symbolist painting, along with “The Green Christ”, and is a clear precedent to the religious paintings Gauguin created in Polynesia (“Ia Orana Maria”, “Maternity”), but using Breton women instead of Polynesian girls as models. PAUL GAUGUIN – “Le Christ jaune (The yellow Christ”), 1889 Two other “complete” versions of the “bathers” exist, one in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the other in the National Gallery in London. The painting is indebted to some of Titian’s best works, such as “Bacchanal”, while the almost sculptural representation of the human body links this painting to Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Vatican. This is the largest canvas painted by Cézanne, and a fabulous culmination of the “Bathers” series. PAUL CÉZANNE: “Les Grandes Baigneuses”, 1906 Paul Cezanne – Les Grandes Baigneuses – 1906 Cézanne introduced vegetal elements in the foreground, delimiting and emphasizing the view of the mountain and the meadow. It is a work that we could call cubist before cubism: the triangular mountain and the elements of the meadow -both natural and man-made- acquire volume not due to perspective, but due to the superimposition of chromatic planes. This is one of the most developed versions of the numerous views that Cézanne painted of the Sainte-Victoire Mountain. PAUL CÉZANNE: “Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Les Lauves”, 1904-06 Paul Cezanne – La Montagne Sainte Victoire vue des Lauves – 1904-06 – Kunstmuseum Basel While the composition is really simple (two players facing each other, with a black bottle disguisingly dividing the canvas into two parts) the fabulous intensity of the players’ faces make this painting one of the masterpieces of post-Impressionist painting. This is the smallest of Cézanne’s three versions of a pair of card players, but it is quite likely that it was also the last of them, and the most elaborate. PAUL CÉZANNE: “The Card Players”, 1893-96 Paul Cezanne – Les Joueurs de cartes – 1893-96 – Paris Orsay Bührle Foundation is the best of four versions of the same subject painted by the artist, and the only one preserved outside the United States. PAUL CÉZANNE: “The Boy in the Red Vest (Le Garçon au gilet rouge)”, 1889-90Īlthough Cézanne is most famous among the general public for his still lifes, his portraits (and self-portraits) are of equal or greater interest. Where is this basket? Placed in a very unstable position in the upper right corner of the table, or -thanks to a complex perspective- is on the ground along with the wood piece partially depicted at the right of the painting? Paul Cezanne – Le Garcon au gilet rouge – 1889-90 ![]() This group of figures could by themselves constitute an exceptional still life, but Cézanne has reserved for us an extraordinary illusion in the form of a basket of fruit. ![]() PAUL CÉZANNE: “ La Table de cuisine” also known as “Nature morte au panier“, 1880-1890 – Paris, Musée d’OrsayĬézanne is perhaps the greatest master of the still life of any era, and this brilliant painting is one of his most ambitious compositions. Paul Cezanne – La Table de cuisine – 1880-90 – Musee dOrsay The paintings are shown in alphabetical order following the name of their author. Without the intention of being an in-depth study of Post-Impressionism, but rather a tribute to it, and an invitation to discover more about the artists who developed it, we present here 25 masterpieces of this fascinating artistic period. Post-Impressionist Art as seen through 25 works of art Led by Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, Post-Impressionism, along with its predecessor, laid the foundations of modern art. Thus emerged a heterodox movement, by no means uniform, known today as Post-Impressionism. After the zenith of Impressionism in the 1870s and early 1880s, many of the major artists who had embraced this movement felt that it was time to move on, looking for new paths. ![]()
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