Cezanne Flashcards
(10 cards)
Cezanne’s brush marks were not quick and sketchy like the Impressionists but…
more organised and arranged to create geometric form.
Unlike the Impressionists, Cezanne preferred painting in a studio to working outside (like the impressionists)
He rejected their seemingly spontaneous brushwork and favoured organised, orderly composition
Cezanne was described as ‘Post Impressionist’ as he was more interested in evoking emotion rather than realism in his work.
Post Impressionist artists used symbolic motifs, unnatural colour and painterly brushstrokes.
Cezanne was not interested in capturing fleeting impressions of his subjects-a key characteristic of Impressionism- and
focused on symbolism and substance over style
Cezanne rejected the theories of the Impressionists who tried to capture the effects of light and reflection in a moment.
He often had no recognisable light source or heavy shadows in his paintings
Cezanne, like the Impressionists, used ‘broken brushstrokes’ which means he applied colours to his paintings in
small strokes, but did not blend them, so that they blended optically rather than literally
The artist Pissarro was a huge influence on Cezanne and advised him to remove
black and dark colours from his palette and encouraged him to use primary colours only which brightened his paintings dramatically
Early in his career , Cezanne used palette knives to produce heavily textured paintings. After working alongside the Impressionists, however,
he was inspired to try out new methods of paint application such as ‘broken brushwork’ using a small brush
Cezanne played with perspective and flattened surfaces to show the same arrangement from multiple angles at once.
A distorted perspective like this was to play a major role in the ‘Cubist movement’.
Cezanne is celebrated as the ‘forefather’ of Fauvism due to his use of
vivid colours which could sometimes be described as unnatural
