MODERNISM

Paul CEZANNE: THE FOUNDING FATHER OF MODERNISM1839-1906

*…structured paintings of an ordered nature through a methodical application of color that merged drawing and modeling into a single process”•Becomes the point of reference for artists from Picasso and Matisse through Jasper Johns. He even had his own “anti Cezanne” movement characterized by Marcel DuChamp, who disdained “retinal art” (observational painting).•His ideal was to redo “Poussin after nature”…. He went after each “by reducing the elements of the former to “the cylinder, the sphere, the conve, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed to a central point.” Cezanne•Inspired followers who emulated him and those who openly rebelled against him•Preferred nature to urban life•Limited range of colors; brushstrokes which vary from short parallel hatchings to light lines to broader swathes of color weave together the elements of color into a unified but flattened visual space•Surface design competes with the pictorial effect of receding space•Saturated hues in foreground; lighter values in background

CEZANNE : Mount Sainte-Victoire(Today there is a cell tower on the peak)

Cezanne l’Estaque

The Card Players

Cezanne Apples

Cezanne Bather

Cezanne 1885 BatherRineke Dijkstra 1993 Odessa Ukraine Color print

Standing Model ca 1860 thought to be inspiration for Cezanne’s bather: from the studio to the landscape

Cezanne Bathers

First of three 1900-1905

National Gallery of Art, London Second of three large scale paintings of this subject

Cezanne THE LARGE BATHERS

Matisse DANCE

MODERN ARTPicasso-Matisse-BraqueCezanne-The Godfather

What do we mean by “modern”