In this unfinished work, Cézanne used a dry brush - a brush with very little water on it. He used this method to draw the outlines of the objects he was painting before adding in more colours and ...

They were hugely influential on early twentieth-century modern art, particularly Cubism, and had a lasting impact on Picasso and Matisse. The precise dating of the pictures is difficult. It’s possible ...

But, just as important, the topic opened onto the most defining problems of Cézanne's early work: the conflict between ethics and aesthetics, nature and culture, freedom and constraint; the anxious ...

Cézanne's Early Imagery by Mary Tompkins Lewis explores the lesser-known but significant early works of Paul Cézanne, bringing to light the rich cultural and artistic context of his first decade as a ...

Cézanne’s method, as he once said, was ‘hatred of the imaginative’, and we can feel that the hatred extended to all that was implied in the derived, fictitious contour of the early works. His task was ...

This unfinished work belongs to a series of still lifes made by Cézanne in the late 1880s and early 1890s, in which he depicted plates and fruit on a table placed parallel with the picture plane. The ...

The image must be attributed with the artist, title of the artwork, copyright holder, and 'National Galleries of Scotland'. The image must also be linked back to this artwork page on the National ...

The mountain of Sainte-Victoire, near where he grew up in Aix-en-Provence, was one of Cézanne’s favourite subjects. He carefully composed his pictures, applying the pigment with short brushstrokes, ...