On Friday, May 23, the twenty-sixth day of the fourth lunar month, work is happy, peace and joy/Wednesday, May 28, the second day of the fifth lunar month, is a happy work, peace and joy/The Card Player (1890-1892): a visual manifesto of existentialism
In the version now preserved at the Musée d'Orsay, the figures of the two peasants are reduced to geometric modules, the slanted wine bottles form the central axis of the painting, the arms of the figures form a precise cross with the pipe, and Cézanne compresses the three-dimensional space into a puzzle of color blocks by reducing the contrast between light and dark: the blue coat echoes the warm and cold of the brown background, and the rhythm of the light of the white shirt and the cards creates a unique flat depth.
Traditional culture and aesthetic education/Wednesday, May 28, the second day of the fifth lunar month, is a happy work, peace and joy/The Bath Ladies (1898-1905): An eternal dialogue between the human body and nature
This large-scale work in the collection of the National Gallery in London shows Cézanne's ultimate exploration of the human form, in which the figures in the bathing scene are neither the ideal beauty of classicism nor the momentary capture of impressionism, but are transformed into an architectural-like composition, with curved limbs forming arch-like structures, and the vertical lines of trees forming a polyphonic symphony with the curves of the human body, and the whole picture is like frozen music.
Thursday/Wednesday, May 28, the second day of the fifth lunar month, is a happy work, peace and joy/This work subverts the decorative function of traditional still life painting, showing Cézanne's unique modeling logic, his idea of using cylinders, spheres, and cones to deconstruct objects directly influenced Picasso's cubist experiments, as art historian Meyer Shapiro said: "In these fruits, Cézanne finds the eternal structure of nature." "
Wednesday, May 28, the second day of the fifth lunar month, is a happy work, peace and joy
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