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Paul Cezanne Revolutionized Natural Form |
| Section: THE ARTS / ART |
| Author: Joanna Shaw-Eagle |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2007 |
| Size: 771 Words, 5,362 Characters |
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When Paul Cezanne said, "I will astonish Paris with an apple," he charted a course that revolutionized art. The National Gallery of Art celebrated his groundbreaking modernism with Cezanne in Provence, a stunning assemblage of 117 oils, watercolors, drawings and prints.
The gallery was the first to document the artist's emotional ties to his home in Aix-en-Provence and focus on his intense identification with the nearby Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Exhibit co-curator Philip Conisbee, the museum's senior curator of European paintings, said he wanted to show "Cezanne in his time and place, rather than as the father of modern art." He focused, therefore, ...
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... rocks upward, as in Bibemus Quarry, circa 1895.
The portrait of his Chateau Noir employee The Gardener Vallier also transmits Cezanne's black, despairing mood at the time.
The triumphant apotheosis of seven late images of Montagne Sainte-Victoire at the show's end was in itself worth a visit to this extraordinary exhibit.
Copyright © 2007 The Washington Times, LLC.
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