Paul Cézanne .- Still-Life with a curtain & flowered pitcher 1d [1898] - St. Petersburg, Hermitage - wm

Paul Cézanne painted Still Life with Curtain and Flowered Pitcher in oil on canvas around 1898. This painting is in the collection of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.

The painting shows two plates with fruit spread over the surface of the table on which draperies and a flowered pitcher are placed.

 

Still life was a very important part of Cézanne’s work. The inventive and revolutionary principles that Cézanne introduced to still life painting can be traced through his relationship to perspective, line, and color. In the domain of perspective, Cézanne made changes that would greatly influence the later development of modern painting. He refined the default concept of linear perspective by introducing the idea of simultaneous observation of objects from several points. Relying on the theory of inverse perspective, Cézanne strove to provide as much information as possible about the presented subject. In structuring the scene, Cézanne minimized the role of the line. Although drawing was very important in Cézanne’s detailed preparation for each composition, the scene ultimately rests on the complex relationship of colors. Thus, the line in the scene was replaced by a combination of colored fields arranged according to the idea of complementarity. The complementarity of colors is the key element of Cézanne’s complex palette. Cézanne achieved harmony in both still lifes and landscapes by modulating painted surfaces based on the combination of warm and cold tones.

 

Source: artchive

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