Visual Perspectives – Cezanne

The Eye of the Beholder

Still Life with Flowers in an Olive Jar was painted by French artist Paul Cézanne in 1880. The still-life art form emerged in the late sixteenth century. It remains a favorite among artists because it gives them the liberty to experiment with different arrangements of elements within the work of art. Cézanne’s work is unique because he used smaller brushstrokes to build an alluring complexion of color and life. Through his careful attention to detail and airy painting style, Still Life with Flowers in an Olive Jar symbolizes the bridge from nineteenth-century Impressionism to early twentieth-century Cubism.

Paul Cezanne, Nature morte aux fleurs dans un pot d’olives, vers 1880, huile sur toile, 46,3 x 34,3, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, PA, USA, The Mr and Mrs Carroll S. Tyson, Jr Collection, 1963 _ Bridgeman Images

Cezanne, lights of Provence

Friday February 18, 2022 – January 8, 2023

The new digital and immersive exhibition of the Atelier des Lumières presents the most significant masterpieces of Cezanne (1839-1906) such as Still Life with Apples, The Card Players (1890-95) and The Great Bathers (circa 1906). A self-taught painter with 900 canvases and 400 watercolors, Cezanne painted portraits, still lifes, landscapes, historical scenes… and produced multiple versions of the same subject, constantly experimenting with the possibilities of pictorial matter.

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