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The Sacred Mountain of Cézanne, an Obsession that Reinvented Modern Painting
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"There would be treasures to take away from this country, which did not yet find an interpreter at the height of the riches which he unfolds." Paul Cézanne's attachment to this country of Aix in which he had seen the birth left an indelible imprint on all of his work. Although he lived there only partially, sharing his time between Paris and the bastide acquired by his father Louis-Auguste in 1859, this family home in Aix became from his early y…
From Aix-en-Provence, the mountain of Sainte-Victoire appears as an immense stone altar surrounded by vineyards and olive trees. Paul Cézanne painted it more than 80 times, in increasingly fainter harmonies and with increasingly reduced shapes to geometrical planes. By measuring himself with this monument of the Provencal countryside, which he knew as a child, the painter acquired a permanent point of reference in front of which to develop his s…
"Talking about art is almost useless. A writer expresses himself through abstractions, while a painter concretizes his feelings, his perceptions, through drawing and colors," once said Paul Cezanne, to whom the year 2025 was dedicated in his hometown.
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