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...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 Cézanne, every brushstroke leads a double life, as part of a painterly illusion and as a thing in itself, a patch of pigment on a canvas. This opened the way to everything from Cubism to abstraction. And as the Philadelphia...
...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 Cézanne that his multitude of discrete strokes can destabilize forms even as he builds them up, dissolving them into a force field of shimmering hatch marks. Look at his 1877 portrait of his wife Hortense. Cézanne conferred on her a monumental stability that's constructed somehow out of a field of pulsing strokes. More than a half-century later, Picasso painted his young mistress Marie-Thérèse in The Dream with...
...carry into the profound thickets of Cubism. The serene heft of Cézanne's many views of Mont Sainte-Victoire inform the muscular Maine landscapes of the American painter Marsden Hartley. The enduring reach of Cézanne can even be felt in Ellsworth Kelly's Lake II, a color-field wall panel from 2002 that distills and abstracts the visual experience of water, just as the old Frenchman distilled the forms of nature...
...Colin West. “[This is] definitely going to be a good weekend for some possible redemption.â€Much of the men’s and women’s teams traveled to Williams yesterday to compete in what will be a very competitive national field. Tournament play begins this morning with first round match-ups and concludes on Sunday with championship matches scheduled to begin at 4:00 pm.Each year the CSA compiles team and individual squash rankings according to results from individual collegiate matches played during the season and updates these rankings monthly...
...Crimson hopes to use home field advantage to its benefit, as it looks to unseat track and field powerhouses Cornell and Princeton. The Big Red was crowned last year’s male Heptagonal Champions while the Tigers took home the women’s title...