This is Cézanne

This Is...

by Jorella Andrews, Patrick Vale (Illustrator)

Paul Cézanne challenged convention, and proposed new possibilities for modern art. He was remarkable for his ability to perceive and paint everyday places, people, and things in ways that revealed the multiplicity and beauty of vision, while also unveiling the deep, cohesive structures of the visible world.

But the intellectual and emotional difficulties of his achievements were considerable. Mainly self-taught, most of his career was plagued by rejection. The critics, and the public, disliked his paintings and, in 1884, Cézanne declared that Paris, the center of the nineteenth-century art world, had defeated him. Repeatedly, he retreated into self-doubt and bad temper.

This book follows Cézanne on his extraordinary artistic journey, focusing on his formative discoveries, made not in the flashy, fashionable metropolis but in provincial and rural France and often in isolation.

This title is appropriate for ages 14 and up

Genres: Art, Biography, Art History, Nonfiction

80 pages, Hardcover

First published March 31, 2015

Reviews

[Viky · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book about one of the greatest atrtist. From this biography full of his paintings and illustrations you will fall in love with it. :)

[Adolfo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Un interesante ingreso, remarca cosas personales que me interesaron.

[Susan Liston · Rating 3 out of 5]

I just grabbed this at the library because it was there. It's graphic-y...lots of drawings where I would have preferred photographs. I guess there is a whole series of these books. It's a perfectly good introduction to an artist.

[Jaymee · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've read the other artists in this series and I an fairly impressed. There is not too much information without losing you as a reader, but enough to sustain the interest of an art student/enthusiast. I admire Cezanne enough to be interested in his life, and among all of the artists in this series, Cezanne had the most information given in the book. He was protected all his life by the money his father gave him, and though he couldn't get accepted early on, he persisted until his works began receiving acclaim, thanks to certain key figures like Pisarro who acted as his mentor, and Vollard, who mounted exhibitions of his works. Without all these, who knows what Cezanne might have been. And going further, how many artists could have made it, had they been given support? What I took from Cezanne's bio was mostly about patronage; how art really is both talent and luck. Sometimes, it doesn't even have anything to do with the former; just one believer, one rich patron, one critic who praises you, and you could be propelled to fame. Not to say that this is how I view Cezanne; I love his "Card Players" in particular. At the end of the book, it says that his paintings are far from being "challenging," but it has not been domesticated, either; it still "demands our prolonged attention and our tenacity." I say this is true among many other artists, and that this is obviously the mark of a great work: the one that makes you stop and think, not necessarily liking it, but questioning it.

[Pınar Tınaztepe Kaya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hep Kitap'ın "İşte Sanat" serisindeki bu kitabı da serinin diğer kitapları kadar etkileyici. Paul Cézanne'nin yaşamına ve resim alanında hak ettiği değere ulaşması için son anına kadar nasıl çaba sarf ettiği güzel bir dille anlatmış. 60 yaşında zatürre sebebiyle ölen Paul Cézanne, geç yaşlarında resimleriyle değer gördü. Modern sanatın babası olarak kabul edilen bu Fransız sanatçının en büyük arzusu, resim yaparken ölmek istemeseydi. Sanırım, en güzel ölüm şekillerinden ve dileği de gerçekleşmiştir.

[Büşra Parlak · Rating 4 out of 5]

İşte Monet’e sanırım 5 vermiştim buna 4 vermemdeki en önemli etken sanırım yazarın kendisine ve karmaşık hayatına daha çok odaklanılması oldu. Cazenne çok büyük bir usta Modern Sanatın Babalarından kabul ediliyor sanırım kitapta bunun ayrılığı vardı yada kişiliğinin bilmiyorum ama beni Monet’ten daha az etkiledi. Yazar hakkında daha iyi bilgi sahibi olmak adına başka kitaplar da okuyacağım.

[Alexandra Fogas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Highly recommending!

[Elisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Es un buen libro que repasa la vida de Cézanne y pone su obra en contexto (tiene mayor acento en lo biográfico). Disfruté su lectura y leería más de la serie.