Art Is as Harmony Parallel to Nature
Essay Topics: 4. According to Paul Cezanne: “Art is as harmony Parallel to Nature.” Discuss with reference to Cubism.
“The history of Cubism consists chiefly of the ongoing battle between the two dimensional plane and three-dimensional nature, between the artists painting construction and the emotional contact with nature.”
Jacob Bendien (1890- 1933)
Cubism was a powerful influent in the visual arts style of the 20th century, in the modern art period. This movement was specifically established by the painters Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between 1907 and 1914. The Cubist style spotlights the ‘flat, two-dimensional surface of the picture plane, rejecting the traditional techniques of perspective, foreshortening, modeling, and chiaroscuro and refuting time-honored theories of art as the imitation of nature.’ Although Picasso and Braque were the first two main artists to create Cubism, critics cannot exclude Paul Cezanne, the initial origin source who drove the art world into the cubist world. Modernism was born in the 1960’s, after Renaissance and Romanticism, with Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia. The Impressionist 1870’s and Post-Impressionist 1880’s and 90’s are modern paintings disobedient adolescence. And Paul Cezanne, who was working in this time frame, brings Impressionism to high development of opening a new era. He wanted more than the quick impressions of the Impressionists and devoted himself to studying the natural world. While he was working far from Paris in an isolation area of Aix-en Provence, as a revolutionary, he gave painters a task to ask the most fundamental question about the nature of their art. Instead of following the traditional motifs of art, letting them go deep into the roots of they’re painting and revolutionize it. Cezanne did the same with his art works, opening painting to essential questions. This was held not by writing a public declaration of intentions and initiating disciples and
“The history of Cubism consists chiefly of the ongoing battle between the two dimensional plane and three-dimensional nature, between the artists painting construction and the emotional contact with nature.”
Jacob Bendien (1890- 1933)
Cubism was a powerful influent in the visual arts style of the 20th century, in the modern art period. This movement was specifically established by the painters Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between 1907 and 1914. The Cubist style spotlights the ‘flat, two-dimensional surface of the picture plane, rejecting the traditional techniques of perspective, foreshortening, modeling, and chiaroscuro and refuting time-honored theories of art as the imitation of nature.’ Although Picasso and Braque were the first two main artists to create Cubism, critics cannot exclude Paul Cezanne, the initial origin source who drove the art world into the cubist world. Modernism was born in the 1960’s, after Renaissance and Romanticism, with Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia. The Impressionist 1870’s and Post-Impressionist 1880’s and 90’s are modern paintings disobedient adolescence. And Paul Cezanne, who was working in this time frame, brings Impressionism to high development of opening a new era. He wanted more than the quick impressions of the Impressionists and devoted himself to studying the natural world. While he was working far from Paris in an isolation area of Aix-en Provence, as a revolutionary, he gave painters a task to ask the most fundamental question about the nature of their art. Instead of following the traditional motifs of art, letting them go deep into the roots of they’re painting and revolutionize it. Cezanne did the same with his art works, opening painting to essential questions. This was held not by writing a public declaration of intentions and initiating disciples and
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