In today’s class, we discussed artwork from the post-impressionist era. This era can be broken down into two parts: form and personal expression. Artists such as Cezanne and Seurat were known for using form throughout their paintings, whereas artists like van Gogh and Gaugin are known for displaying personal expression throughout their works. Color also drives their work, and serves as an important way to highlight certain aspects of their paintings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We compared Paul Cezanne’s “Mont Sainte-Victoire” along with his “Mont Saint-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley.” These two paintings are part of the same series of works, and depicts a scene in Aix-en-Provence, where Cezanne is from. The color scheme is very similar in both paintings, with green and earthy colors making up most of the two paintings. This is very different than series of paintings one would find during the impressionist era, where color schemes varied from painting to painting. The landscapes throughout Cezanne’s two paintings are very flat, with mountains in the background. These works are “painterly”, as the brushstrokes create a visual that further flattens the picture. What is fascinating about Cezanne is that he viewed himself as an impressionist artist. He wished to “make of impressionism something solid and durable.” This statement itself shows how he was not an impressionist artist, and thus falls into the era of what is now known as “post-impressionism.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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