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TitleThe Garden at Les Lauves

Creator nameCézanne, Paul

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1906

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions65.4 × 80.9 cm

LocationPhillips Collection, Washington D.C.

http://www.phillipscollection.org/collection/browse-the-collection?id=0286

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsPost-impressionism (Art)Nature in artLandscapes in art

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5. Cézanne’s Divided Self: “To Be Schizoid and to Be Cézanne”

Carol Armstrong

Cézanne’s Gravity

Was Cézanne a schizophrenic? As we have seen, Merleau-Ponty detected something approaching schizophrenia in Cézanne—though by that, he was quite clear he meant neither that Cézanne was a madman, nor that the key to understanding his painting lay in whatever...

Author

Carol Armstrong

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.157-209

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00292.5

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22234&redirecttoanchor=23792

Chapter subject tags:Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961Fiquet, Hortense, 1850-1922Sainte-Victoire Mountain (France)Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906Psychiatry--France--History--19th centuryArt and philosophy--France--19th centuryPainting, French--19th centuryLandscape painting, French--19th centuryPortrait painting, French--19th century

Chapter Ten: ‘Artless’ Simplicity

Anthea Callen

The Art of Impressionism: Painting Technique and the Making of Modernity

No art, no matter how much the artist is devoted to observing and rendering an external ‘nature’, is unmediated. There is no such thing as ‘artless’ simplicity – the effects are always more or less contrived. There is, however, more or less talent, more or less integrity, in both painter and painting.

Author

Anthea Callen

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.156-176

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00125.013

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16649&redirecttoanchor=23792

Chapter subject tags:Impressionism (Art)--FrancePainting--Technique--France--History--19th centuryLandscape painting, French--19th centuryCézanne, Paul, 1839-1906Monet, Claude, 1840-1926Oil sketches, French--19th centuryArtists' materials--France--19th centuryManet, Édouard, 1832-1883Renoir, Auguste, 1841-1919

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