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...ironies of art history that Paul C??zanne used to warn young painters, "Beware of the influential master." Could there have been a more influential master than he? "The master of us all" is what Henri Matisse once called him, by which he surely meant himself, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Piet Mondrian and any of the other pioneers of modernism. Fernand Lger once told an interviewer about his "battle to quit C??zanne," as though he were a narcotic. "Then one bright day," Lger insisted, "I said, 'Zut!'" (See pictures of Cezanne...
...shaking C??zanne is not so easily done. His discoveries were too fundamental to the course that painting would take. By the time of his death, in 1906, it was plain he was the hinge on which the art of the new century was turning. And his influence didn't end with the first cohort of modernists. His grip on the imagination continues well into the present. As proof, there's "C??zanne and Beyond," an ingenious new exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art that combines a choice selection of C??zannes with the work of 18 artists whose...
What was it that C??zanne did that was so important to the future? Many things, but chief among them is that he shattered the picture plane. By constructing each painting as a series of plainly separate, insistent strokes, he confounds the viewer's natural impulse to treat the canvas as a window onto a scene. He compels your attention instead to the fact that it's a field of marks on a flat surface. In a mature C??zanne, every brushstroke leads a double life, as part of a painterly illusion and as a thing in itself, a patch...
...C??zanne took the immediacy of the Impressionists--their flickering surfaces--and joined it to an ambition to create an art that was more stable and solid. Almost any human figure painted by him possesses the weight and mass of an Egyptian tomb carving. (This may help explain why the later versions of his naked bathers, load-bearing diagonals in an arching composition, are as sexless as shopping-mall escalators.) But it's the paradox of C??zanne that his multitude of discrete strokes can destabilize forms even as he builds them up, dissolving them into a force field...
...home at Harvard. FDR was the handsome and charming captain of the freshman football squad in addition to being a member of the Fly Club, the Hasty Pudding Club and the president of The Harvard Crimson. In class he consistently earned “gentleman’s C??s,” (read: a B today) focusing instead on his extravagant and exciting social life, according to the Harvard Guide.At his 25th class reunion in 1929, FDR, then a rising political star, announced a new age of social consciousness before an audience in Sanders Theater...