1877, Paul Cezanne, Victor Chocquet -- National Gallery of Art (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the exhibition label: Cézanne experimented here with a new kind of handling, building the composition through blocks of pigment. The accumulation of brushstrokes and a repetition of patterns over the entire surface of the composition call as much attention to the carpet, furniture, and wallpaper as to Chocquet’s face. In this way, Cézanne began to shift the expressive power of a portrait away from traditional notions of likeness to the overall design of the picture and the abstract pleasures of color.
1877, Paul Cezanne, Victor Chocquet -- National Gallery of Art (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the exhibition label: Cézanne experimented here with a new kind of handling, building the composition through blocks of pigment. The accumulation of brushstrokes and a repetition of patterns over the entire surface of the composition call as much attention to the carpet, furniture, and wallpaper as to Chocquet’s face. In this way, Cézanne began to shift the expressive power of a portrait away from traditional notions of likeness to the overall design of the picture and the abstract pleasures of color.