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 />
down <strong>and</strong> forward in opposition to the plane of her face which pulls left, up, <strong>and</strong><br />
back.<br />
neck.<br />
In each picture air circulates freely around the young woman's head <strong>and</strong><br />
Plate 12: <strong>Cézanne</strong> <strong>and</strong> Matisse<br />
These paintings are in different styles but have similar structures. In each<br />
there is a diagonal movement back from the lower-left corner to the upper-right<br />
corner. In the Matisse this is contained by a shorter diagonal which runs forward<br />
across the red<br />
flower <strong>and</strong> the<br />
yellow plate.<br />
In the<br />
<strong>Cézanne</strong> the<br />
second diagonal<br />
runs forward<br />
across the<br />
drapery <strong>and</strong> the<br />
white tablecloth<br />
<strong>and</strong> is<br />
reinforced by the slanting edges of the white tablecloth <strong>and</strong> the blue tablecloth.<br />
In each painting there is a horizontal plane formed by the table intersected<br />
by a vertical plane on the left.<br />
Plate 12-1 Paul <strong>Cézanne</strong>. French. Still Life with Apples. 1895-<br />
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