1887 (ca.), Paul Cézanne, Boy Resting -- Hammer Museum (Los Angeles)
From the museum label:
A young man lounges on the riverbank, arranged diagonally across the surface of the painting. The figure is outlined in black and seems to be placed in the foreground of the setting rather than within the landscape itself. The horizontal bands of the earth beneath the figure, the water behind him, and the meadow, hills, and sky beyond are complemented by the opposing vertical trees in the distance, which fill the upper quarter of the canvas. It is probable that the model here is the son of the artist, also named Paul, who was born in 1872.
Painted near Aix-en-Provence, in Cézanne's native Provençal countryside, this composition is neither a portrait nor a landscape with figure, but rather a superimposition of one genre over another, much as materials would be layered in a collage. The horizontal plane of the foreground represents a riverbank, which pushes far forward, depriving the viewer of an easy means of visual access and imposing a sense of architectonic structure and classical calm on the composition.
1887 (ca.), Paul Cézanne, Boy Resting -- Hammer Museum (Los Angeles)
From the museum label:
A young man lounges on the riverbank, arranged diagonally across the surface of the painting. The figure is outlined in black and seems to be placed in the foreground of the setting rather than within the landscape itself. The horizontal bands of the earth beneath the figure, the water behind him, and the meadow, hills, and sky beyond are complemented by the opposing vertical trees in the distance, which fill the upper quarter of the canvas. It is probable that the model here is the son of the artist, also named Paul, who was born in 1872.
Painted near Aix-en-Provence, in Cézanne's native Provençal countryside, this composition is neither a portrait nor a landscape with figure, but rather a superimposition of one genre over another, much as materials would be layered in a collage. The horizontal plane of the foreground represents a riverbank, which pushes far forward, depriving the viewer of an easy means of visual access and imposing a sense of architectonic structure and classical calm on the composition.