We are going to go back in time from our friend, Andy Warhol to our new friend, Paul Cezanne !
Still Life with Skull (1895-1900)
Cezanne painted close to 200 still lifes in his lifetime. He focused mostly on household objects and fruits. He liked the challenge of creating great works of art using simple everyday objects.
His friend says he took great care with setting up a still life. “No sooner
was the cloth draped on the table
with innate
taste than Cézanne set out the peaches in
such a way
as to make the complementary
colors vibrate, grays next to reds,
yellows to
blues, leaning, tilting, balancing the fruit at the
angles
he wanted, sometimes pushing a onesous
or two-sous piece [French
coins] under
them. You could see from the care he took
how much it
delighted his eye”
Our quote of the week also comes from Cezanne " With an apple I will astonish Paris"
What do you think he meant by this? Can you astonish us with a simple object?
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