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ART 545 Quiz 1
Cezanne
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Art History
Undergraduate 4
09/03/2018

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Cezanne; A Modern Olympia 

  • Was concerned with discovering the essence of objectivity
  • Inspired by Manet's Olympia
  • Critics, "He seems to be nothing but a sort of jittery fool painting in delirium tremens." 
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Cezanne, Still Life With Compotier

  • Created a sense of solidity that fits with what the mind knows is there rather than what the eye perceives to be there  
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Cezanne, The Mardi Gras

  • Influential on Picasso 
  • Cezanne's son, Paul, and his friend dressed in costumes
  • Paul stands with his leg disproportionately elongated, the integrity of his natural form made subordinate to the demands of the composition
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Cezanne, The Boy in a Red Vest

  • The arms play an important role in the division of space
  • They are disproportionate to the body
  • There is an overall concern for the use of geometric forms, the basis for Cézanne's method    
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Cezanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire With Large Pine

  • Increasingly simplified composition
  • The use of line less and less apparent
  • The expression of space more and more intellectualized    
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Cezanne, The Great Bathers
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Seurat, Sunday Afternoon on Ile de la Grande Jatte

  • Divisionist technique of placing small dots of complementary colors next to one another    
  • Middle-class families enjoying themselves on a Sunday afternoon
  • The deeper subject is uncertain
  • there is a feeling of a between-world, like the island itself in the middle of the Seine; that is, neither town nor country    
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Seurat, La Chauhut

  • Henry's theory of pleasure-and-pain to repeat the symbol of festivity
  •  Its shallow space shows more of the scene than could actually be seen from any given point
  • This would later become Cubist practice
  • Braque especially admired the work      
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Redon, Vision

  • There is no explanation, and there is no counterpart in lived experience 
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Redon, Cyclops

  • Changed in the 1890's toward more complex harmonies of color 
  • "Colors contain a joy which relaxes me; besides, they sway me towards something different and new.  Yet I could not speak to you of my projects—one doesn't know the art of tomorrow."  
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