First, the pursuit of truth

What Cezanne is looking for in his works is truth, that is, the truth of painting. In his constant research and wandering of several major schools, he gradually felt that the source of his creation must be nature, people and things in the world he lives in, rather than past stories and myths. He hopes to turn these sources into the new reality of painting. Some people say Cezanne is a painter among painters. The reason for this is that Cezanne has his unique theories in artistic creation, which are incisive and have high artistic value, and are refined by his long-term self-practice and hard thinking. In his later years, this view may not be clearly expressed in words, and his success may be more through his discovery on canvas, that is, through the fragments of nature painted on the painting, rather than relying on the research done in the museum. The texture and proper limit he showed in his paintings were regarded as masters by young painters at that time because of their outstanding colors and naive vision, although they were excluded from the salon for a long time. Today, nearly a hundred years later, his large-scale retrospective exhibition has been exhibited around the world and won unanimous praise.

Second, the color block contrast is strong.

"When the color is rich enough, the shape will become." Cezanne often repeats this sentence when talking about his paintings. "The sketch and color elements on the screen are not separated at all; In the process of painting, we gradually color, that is, gradually describe the shape of the object; The more harmonious the colors, the more accurate the shape. Once the color is rich, the shape of the object will be full. The contrast and correlation between tones is the secret of object shape description and three-dimensional modeling. " Cezanne believes that "there are no lines, no light and shade, only the contrast between colors." The volume of an object image is represented by an accurate tonal relationship. "Cezanne's great achievement is an unprecedented analysis of color and light and shade, which is different from impressionist painters capturing superficial impressions. He has a keen sense of the relationship between the structure and color of the picture. In the processing of the picture, Cezanne pursues a sense of plane, and expresses the space with the end of color. He pays attention to the expression of ideas and the pursuit of structural beauty in painting, and advocates that painting should get rid of literariness and plot, and highlight the language expression of painting itself and the beauty of objects themselves. For example, Apple and Orange is Cezanne's later work. With colorful cloth as the background, it seems that more than 20 apples and oranges are casually painted, but the contrast is strong.

Third, the theme is life, people and scenery.

Cezanne painted very limited subjects in his painting career, including Provence scenery, portraits and self-portraits, still life sketches and nude paintings of men and women in baths. Among the impressionist innovators, he carried out a personal artistic revolution. If impressionist painters like Renoir, Degas or Monet fixed the temporary impression of moving things on the canvas, Cezanne was exploring to express nature in an eternal form. Obviously, Cezanne's favorite theme is still life, and his still life paintings are often expressed in the form of "cylindrical, spherical and angular". However, he also paints figure paintings. The characters in his paintings are all treated in the presence of still life, and the body of the characters is often regarded as a generalized, mechanical and commemorative image with geometric concepts.

Fourth, pursue a strong sense of geometry.

Cezanne's description of the outline of objects is also different from other painters. At that time, the important symbol of impressionist painters' works was to blur the outline of objects and pursue a subjective image expression within the scope of ideology, while Cezanne insisted on his own creative way and found another way to restore a clear outline in the picture. Contrary to the popular linear perspective method at that time, he turned to pay attention to the expression of the sense of volume of objects and pursued the deep expression of the picture. This is undoubtedly a bold innovation. Cezanne's expression of body feeling and thickness of objects is not realized by the use of lines, but by the combination of color blocks he is good at. He is not obsessed with the so-called accurate and meticulous reproduction of objects, but pays attention to the shaping of harmonious relations between objects, and sometimes even shows a paranoid structure establishment in order to pursue the harmony of the whole picture. Cezanne's works on canvas always give people a feeling of full color and firm structure. He won't give people any feeling of surprise and jumping, but people feel a kind of peace from his brushwork, a kind of peace that can make people reflect and think.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) abstract

Cezanne, as a master of art in the 20th century, has epoch-making significance and innovative spirit. He spent his life in controversy, opposition and even abuse. He never gave up and never compromised, and finally achieved great success, whether it was the strong restriction and opposition of his father when he was young or the rejection and ridicule of the public in his early years. Throughout Cezanne's artistic creation, Cezanne deserves to be regarded as everyone and the father of modern painting, no matter from the aspects of modeling, color, observation and description. He pointed out that painting is no longer a simple way to reproduce nature, but should reflect not only the appearance of things, but also the feelings of the essence of things. It is his famous saying that emphasizes the importance of describing the "body" and "face" of objects, and that "everything in nature forms itself into a sphere, a cube and a cylinder", which has played a role in the later Cubist painters and their expression of "body" and "face" in painting performance, describing the real world in geometric form and expressing the internal structure of objects on a plane. Objectively speaking, although Cezanne's artistic thoughts coexist, on the whole, it is his innovative spirit with individuality and the influence of his artistic achievements and artistic thoughts that opened up a new world for western painting in the 20th century, so he is regarded as the pioneer of western modernist painting school. Cezanne is called "the father of modern art" and "the father of modern painting" because of his interest, unique talent and the help of nobles. I think it's probably his tireless pursuit of artistic career and never giving up on realizing his dream. This persistent self-persistence has an immeasurable positive impact on our contemporary art scholars and is always worth learning by future generations.

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