Paul Cezanne - Still life w Apples (1878)

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“Painting from nature is not copying the object,” Paul Cézanne wrote, “it is realizing one’s sensations.” Cezanne wasn’t all that interested in how an object was immediately apprended or viewed, but what luked behind the veil of our limited sensations. His apples are reduced to spherical shapes that have color and appear to be in a state of flux (or animation). Cezanne’s contemporaries made still-life images that were more photorealistic, but for Cezanne, shape, color, and lighting, and the way they interacted with objects was much more important. While not appreciated (and definitely not celebrated) during his lifetime, he would go on to be copied and then emulated by Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and countless others.

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