Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bellevue
Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bellevue is a landscape painting dating from around 1885, by the French artist Paul Cézanne. The subject of the painting is the Montagne Sainte-Victoire in Provence in southern France. Cézanne spent a lot of time in Aix-en-Provence at the time, and developed a special relationship with the landscape. This particular mountain, that stood out in the surrounding landscape, he could see from his house, and he painted it in on numerous occasions.[1]
The painting shows clearly Cézanne's project of rendering order and clarity to natural scenes, without giving up the optical realism of Impressionism.[2] Both the light and the colours of the painting give the impression of a pattern that is not imposed on nature, but is there naturally.[2]
References
- ^ Becks-Malorny, p. 67.
- ^ a b Gombrich, pp. 538-41.
Sources
- Becks-Malorny, Ulrike Paul Cézanne, 1839-1906: Pioneer of Modernism (Cologne, 2001), ISBN 3-8228-642-8
- Gombrich, E.H., The Story of Art, 16th ed. (London & New York, 1995), ISBN 0-7148-3355-X
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