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French Post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne was one of the most influential artists in the history of modern painting. His works and ideas influenced the aesthetic development of 20th-century artists and art movements like Cubism and Fauvism .
Cézanne Portraits. Paul Cézanne, Uncle Dominique in Smock and Blue Cap, 1866–1867, oil on canvas, Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wolfe Fund, 1951; acquired from The Museum of Modern Art, Lillie P. Bliss Collection (53.140.1) , 1880–1881, oil on canvas, The National Gallery, London.
8 lip 2018 · National Portrait Gallery, London, October 26, 2017–February 11, 2018. Bringing together some 60 examples drawn from collections around the world, Cézanne Portraits is the first exhibition devoted to the famed post-impressionist’s portraits from across his career.
Returning consistently to the same repertoire of familiar subjects, Cézanne depicted long views and close details of the natural landscape; arrangements of fruit and kitchen utensils; portraits of himself and his family members; and individual and grouped bathers.
24 wrz 2017 · In 1866, Cézanne embarked on a series of portraits of his maternal uncle Dominique Aubert. His extremely radical treatment of paint, applied in thick texture with ridges, was as significant in defining the shape of the face as variations in colour, thus marking a major turning point in his career.
Paul Cézanne (1839 - 1906) "The success of art is the face" declared Cézanne confidently to the art dealer Ambroise Vollard. On many occasions during his adult life, the painter inflicted long sittings on his partner Hortense Fiquet, who became his wife in 1886. This painting has an overall quality of simplicity.
Cézanne played with the tradition of reformed and classical portraiture—making things off-balance, outlined, blurred out, and often shifting the focus.
