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Documents of Twentieth-Century Art
Conversas com Cézanne
Em seus últimos anos de vida, recluso em Aix-en-Provence, no sul da França, e dedicando todas as suas energias à pintura, Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) vive uma das mais belas, profundas e vigorosas aventuras da arte moderna, influindo de maneira decisiva no rumo das artes plásticas do século XX e descortinando possibilidades que, ainda hoje, estão longe de terem se esgotado.
Michael Doran, pesquisador do prestigioso Courtauld Institute, de Londres, coligiu, comparou, reuniu e anotou, em Conversas com Cézanne, os principais testemunhos daqueles que conviveram com o pintor entre 1894 e 1906, e registraram não só a forma e o conteúdo de suas conversas, a veemência de seus pontos de vista, a originalidade de suas concepções, mas também seu cotidiano, seus hábitos e idiossincrasias, seus procedimentos diante do motivo pictórico e até a ordenação das cores em sua paleta.
Por meio de cartas, artigos de jornal, relatos de conversas e ensaios críticos e biográficos, Conversas com Cézanne traça o retrato vivo de um gênio ao mesmo tempo emotivo e arredio, ardente e cerebral, dado a explosões de cólera ou de generosidade, com um amor desmedido à vida e à pintura. A um só tempo sábio, decidido, mas profundamente desconfiado de si e dos outros, “o Cézanne que emerge destas conversas e testemunhos é” — no dizer de Paulo Pasta que assina o posfácio deste livro —, sem dúvida alguma, “a figura excepcional da pintura moderna”.
Michael Doran, pesquisador do prestigioso Courtauld Institute, de Londres, coligiu, comparou, reuniu e anotou, em Conversas com Cézanne, os principais testemunhos daqueles que conviveram com o pintor entre 1894 e 1906, e registraram não só a forma e o conteúdo de suas conversas, a veemência de seus pontos de vista, a originalidade de suas concepções, mas também seu cotidiano, seus hábitos e idiossincrasias, seus procedimentos diante do motivo pictórico e até a ordenação das cores em sua paleta.
Por meio de cartas, artigos de jornal, relatos de conversas e ensaios críticos e biográficos, Conversas com Cézanne traça o retrato vivo de um gênio ao mesmo tempo emotivo e arredio, ardente e cerebral, dado a explosões de cólera ou de generosidade, com um amor desmedido à vida e à pintura. A um só tempo sábio, decidido, mas profundamente desconfiado de si e dos outros, “o Cézanne que emerge destas conversas e testemunhos é” — no dizer de Paulo Pasta que assina o posfácio deste livro —, sem dúvida alguma, “a figura excepcional da pintura moderna”.
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320 pages, Paperback
First published July 10, 2001
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February 24, 2014
Really inspiring. What an obsession this man had. Fantastic.
July 14, 2017
The main interest of this book, its biggest strenght, lies in a self-perceived lack in early modernist painting: Cezanne, even when he had several other painters as students who would go on to garner a reputation of their own (although evidently not as great as his), left behind no writings, not even an attempt to sum up his painterly knowledge. Everything that was left behind were his paintings, letters and the living memory of the conversations he had had with his students.
This book recovers from several different sources, among which the most important were publications by Émile Bernard, Maurice Denis and Joachim Gasquet shortly after their master's demise, Cezanne's living thought on his craft. Not only is their testimony on their teachers's knowledge and character riveting to anybody interested in modernism and painting, but the discussions the editor of the original tome, P.M. Doran, points at and frames up, contribute greatly to understanding what was at play when these artist-writers published their texts on their master: they were giving shape to the Cezanne we have come to know today. They were claiming the inheritance from their spiritual father, and in doing that, they started a discussion that painters have felt the need to respond again and again: What is painting today?
This book recovers from several different sources, among which the most important were publications by Émile Bernard, Maurice Denis and Joachim Gasquet shortly after their master's demise, Cezanne's living thought on his craft. Not only is their testimony on their teachers's knowledge and character riveting to anybody interested in modernism and painting, but the discussions the editor of the original tome, P.M. Doran, points at and frames up, contribute greatly to understanding what was at play when these artist-writers published their texts on their master: they were giving shape to the Cezanne we have come to know today. They were claiming the inheritance from their spiritual father, and in doing that, they started a discussion that painters have felt the need to respond again and again: What is painting today?
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