Pictorial Space throughout Art History: Cézanne and ... - ARAS
Pictorial Space throughout Art History: Cézanne and ... - ARAS
Pictorial Space throughout Art History: Cézanne and ... - ARAS
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<strong>ARAS</strong> Connections Issue 2, 2012<br />
left background have parallel slopes: they form a major pair of planes in the<br />
painting. The hillside pulls down, forward <strong>and</strong> right against the mountainside<br />
which pulls up, back, <strong>and</strong> left; between them they create pictorial space. The left<br />
roadside <strong>and</strong> the hill in the right background also have parallel borders <strong>and</strong> they<br />
too form a pair of planes which create space. The roadside pulls left, down <strong>and</strong><br />
forward, the hill right, up <strong>and</strong> back. There is also tension between the dark<br />
triangle in the left foreground <strong>and</strong> the dark triangle in the left high mountain.<br />
Plate 2-1 <strong>Cézanne</strong>, French. The Sainte Victoire from<br />
Beaureceuil.<br />
There are<br />
further plastic<br />
tensions between the<br />
smaller planes of<br />
each house <strong>and</strong> of the<br />
two dark trees.<br />
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