1877, Paul Cézanne, La Vie des Champs (Life in the Fields) -- National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin)
From the museum label:
Cézanne spent much of his life in his native Provence painting portraits, still-lifes, and landscapes. Independent in temperament and artistic outlook, he struggled to make his mark on the Paris art world. In the 1870s Camille Pissarro encouraged him to lighten his palette and paint outdoors. He went on to exhibit at the First and Third Impressionist exhibitions in 1874 and 1877.
The first solo exhibition of Cézanne's work, held by art-dealer Ambroise Vollard in 1895, marked a major turning point in the artist's career. His innovative approach to representing three-dimensional objects in space would have a significant impact on the development of Cubism.
Cézanne painted this picture, first owned by Vollard, in Provence. It is a rural idyll rather than a depiction of a specific landscape or group of people. While Cézanne's painting technique is distinctly modern, his subject-matter is rooted in the neo-classical work of earlier artists like Nicolas Poussin.
1877, Paul Cézanne, La Vie des Champs (Life in the Fields) -- National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin)
From the museum label:
Cézanne spent much of his life in his native Provence painting portraits, still-lifes, and landscapes. Independent in temperament and artistic outlook, he struggled to make his mark on the Paris art world. In the 1870s Camille Pissarro encouraged him to lighten his palette and paint outdoors. He went on to exhibit at the First and Third Impressionist exhibitions in 1874 and 1877.
The first solo exhibition of Cézanne's work, held by art-dealer Ambroise Vollard in 1895, marked a major turning point in the artist's career. His innovative approach to representing three-dimensional objects in space would have a significant impact on the development of Cubism.
Cézanne painted this picture, first owned by Vollard, in Provence. It is a rural idyll rather than a depiction of a specific landscape or group of people. While Cézanne's painting technique is distinctly modern, his subject-matter is rooted in the neo-classical work of earlier artists like Nicolas Poussin.