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Still Life with Apples
Creator
Paul CézanneFrench Artist · 1839–1906
All works by this person →When Paul Cézanne moved to Paris from Aix-en-Provence in 1862, his art was strongly influenced by Eugène Delacroix and Gustave Courbet. He used thick slabs of paint to give his early works a sculptural presence and intensity. He soon met the Impressionists and exhibited with them three times to scarring reviews, after which he stopped exhibiting for thirteen years. In 1872 Camille Pissarro introdu
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- 1893–1894
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Paintings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 912e77d2-c887-4c1a-8817-7c2dde0fc12b
During the last thirty years of his life, Paul Cézanne painted the same objects--the green vase, the rum bottle, the ginger pot, and the apples--over and over again. His interest was not in the objects themselves but in using them to experiment with shape, color, and lighting. He arranged his still lifes so that everything locked together. Edges of objects run into each other; for example, a black arabesque seemingly escapes from the blue cloth to capture an apple in the center; the sinuous curves of the blue ginger pot's rattan straps merge with other straps on the body of the bottle behind. Giving form and mass to objects through the juxtaposition of brushstrokes and carefully balanced colors and textures, he gave the painting a sense of comforting stability.
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