February 25, 2007

Cezanne

Cezanne painted this 6 years before Picasso was born.

Warning: a newbie speaks.

While he worked alongside the impressionists, he took a lone detour from the group. He wasn't so interested in light and color.

He also made a crazy leap that led to the abstraction. He started painting individual objects from multiple perspectives... and placing them side by side in the same painting.

This is what I think (if I remember correctly from reading) eventually led Picasso to his complete anihilation of perspective in these strange collages.

And maybe this truly is a more modern perspective... that is a multiple view... unlike say Da Vinci's Last Supper. I believe if you look at that painting, you'll see that all lines have a single vanishing point...

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