1898 (ca.), Paul Cezanne, Still Life with Pears -- Wallraf-Richartz Museum (Cologne)
From the museum label: Presenting a randomly chosen detail amounts to a radical break with the traditional subject of the still life. Painting in a broken, patchy style, which did not tally with the viewer's own visual experiences, Cézanne fundamentally altered the world of objects. The picture space seems to have been broken up, and the objects dissected into basic forms. With this they lose their original materiality, along with their symbolic meaning. This way of dismantling the objects in Cézanne's landscapes and still lifes to produce geometrical structures marked the starting point for Cubist painting, which began in the 20th Century.
1898 (ca.), Paul Cezanne, Still Life with Pears -- Wallraf-Richartz Museum (Cologne)
From the museum label: Presenting a randomly chosen detail amounts to a radical break with the traditional subject of the still life. Painting in a broken, patchy style, which did not tally with the viewer's own visual experiences, Cézanne fundamentally altered the world of objects. The picture space seems to have been broken up, and the objects dissected into basic forms. With this they lose their original materiality, along with their symbolic meaning. This way of dismantling the objects in Cézanne's landscapes and still lifes to produce geometrical structures marked the starting point for Cubist painting, which began in the 20th Century.