1877 (ca.), Paul Cézanne, The Eternal Feminine -- Getty Museum (Los Angeles)
From the museum label: Staring with sightless eye sockets, this domineering woman—the Eternal Feminine—calmly holds court over a crowd of men fighting for her attention. None of the men represented here—musicians, wrestlers, a bishop, even the artist himself—can resist her temptation. Urgently hatched brush strokes and strong pictorial diagonals repeatedly lead the eye back to the central figure.
1877 (ca.), Paul Cézanne, The Eternal Feminine -- Getty Museum (Los Angeles)
From the museum label: Staring with sightless eye sockets, this domineering woman—the Eternal Feminine—calmly holds court over a crowd of men fighting for her attention. None of the men represented here—musicians, wrestlers, a bishop, even the artist himself—can resist her temptation. Urgently hatched brush strokes and strong pictorial diagonals repeatedly lead the eye back to the central figure.