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As much as Paul Cézanne’s Boy in a Red Waistcoat (1888–1890) is a portrait of a wistful young man, this painting is equally an abstract exercise in arranging colors and shapes.
Boy in a Red Waistcoat, 1888-1890. Paul Cezanne. West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 84. This painting evokes the art of the past only to break boldly with its conventions. The boy is posed like an aristocrat in a 16th-century Italian portrait. He looks away from us, resting a hand on his cocked hips. But this is not a naturalistic portrait.
The Boy in a Red Vest series of portraits is a successful example of that principle of combining traditional components and a modern approach to painting. The painting, which is kept at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, is the only one that represents the boy in a standing position.
The boy's pose is that of an academic life study, and for some art historians it has recalled the languid elegance of 16th–century portraiture. As a young man in Paris, Cézanne had learned his...
30 sie 2011 · The Boy in the Red Vest (Le Garçon au gilet rouge), also known as The Boy in the Red Waistcoat, is a painting (Venturi 681) by Paul Cézanne, painted in 1889 or 1890. It is a fine example of Cézanne's skilled, nuanced, and innovative mature work after 1880.
28 lip 2024 · As a young man in Paris, Cézanne had learned his art not only from his impressionist colleagues but also through studying old masters in the Louvre. On the other hand, it is possible to see this so–called portrait as an entity of shapes and colors.
Cézanne painted four oil portraits of this Italian boy in the red vest (in British English, a waistcoat), all in different poses, which allowed him to study the relationship between the figure and space. [3] The most famous of the four, and the one commonly referred to by this title, is the one which depicts the boy in a melancholic seated pose with his elbow on a table and his head cradled ...
