Cezanne: Landscape into Art

by Pavel Machotka, Cezanne (Painter)

This beautiful book presents a new perspective on Paul Cezanne, one of the towering and most influential figures of nineteenth-century art. Pavel Machotka has photographed the sites of Cezanne's landscape paintings - whenever possible from the same spot and at the same time of day that Cezanne painted the scenes. Juxtaposing these color photographs with reproductions of the paintings, he offers a dazzling range of evidence to demonstrate how the great painter transformed nature into works of art.
Machotka, himself an artist, moves from painting to painting, examining textures and surfaces, pictorial rhythms, and inflections of tone. As he analyzes Cezanne's treatment of individual sites, their transposition into forms and colors, and the artist's responsiveness to the demands of each unique composition, we begin to see Cezanne as he saw not as an early Cubist, but as a painter who explored every aspect of his motif for its rich compositional potential and presented a parallel and faithful conception of it. Using color to define form, while retaining hues that are anchored in reality, Cezanne achieved sensuous reconstructions, rather than intellectual depictions like those of the Cubists.
While there are other books on Cezanne's landscapes, none is as closely informed by painterly knowledge and perception or as complete in its grasp of Cezanne's period and geography as this one. A visual delight, it is also an illuminating and original interaction with the artist's work.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, Art History

172 pages, Hardcover

First published March 27, 1996

Reviews

[Reuel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent color reproductions of Cézanne landscapes, together with color photographs of the sites they represent. The author then compares and two and analyzes how Cézanne maintained fidelity to the motifs as they existed, while also making adjustments to create balanced, harmonious, and unified works of art.

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风景入画 可试读 有电子版
8.3 (63人评价) [英] 肯尼斯·克拉克 / 吕澎 / 译林出版社 / 2020
本书是英国著名艺术史家、作家、策展人、纪录片主持人肯尼斯·克拉克的代表作之一，是西方风景画研究的开山之作和传世经典，明确定位了风景画在西方艺术史中的美学价值

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Cezanne's Landscape and the Function of Vision

[M · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful book ! A painter writes about a painter, with details about Paul Cezanne' s nature paintings.