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Cezanne's Watercolors: Between Drawing and Painting
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Cézanne’s watercolors exhibit not only kaleidoscopic arrays of translucent color but also very light graphite pencil lines that contrast strikingly with the soft watery touches of color. These drawn lines have been largely overlooked in previous studies of Cézanne’s watercolors.
In this ravishing book, Matthew Simms argues that it was the dialogue between drawing and painting—the movement between the pencil and the paintbrush—that attracted Cézanne to watercolor. Watercolor allowed Cézanne to express what he termed his “sensations” in two distinct modes that become a record of his shifting and spontaneous responses to his subject. Combining close visual analysis and examination of historical context, Simms focuses on the counterpoint of drawing and color in Cézanne’s watercolors over the course of his career and as viewed in relation to his oil paintings. More than a tool for sketching or preparing for oil paintings, Simms contends, watercolor was a unique means of expression in its own right that allowed Cézanne to combine in one place the two otherwise opposed mediums of drawing and painting.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #166166 in Books
- Published on: 2008-10-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 256 pages
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"The reproductions, including numerous close-up details of C�zanne''s work, are among the best in any of the multitude of publications on C�zanne. . . . This lovely book will be useful to a wide range of readers interested in C�zanne. Recommended." �Choice (Choice )
About the Author
Matthew Simms is associate professor of art history at California State University, Long Beach.
Customer Reviews
More than mere studies
This book focuses on a crucial body of works by Cézanne, seldom seen and therefore seldom studied, his watercolors. Full of high-quality illustrations, it enables the reader to discover Cézanne's technique, his mastery of color and his virtuoso treatment of line, and also the relationship he draws between both. The study of this relationship between line and color is the core of the author's text, which follows a basically chronological pattern, with many anecdotes on the master's life and comments by his closest contemporaries (the writer Emile Zola, the painter Emile Bernard, etc). The last chapter, centered on Cézanne's late watercolors of bathers is particularly interesting.
Highly recommended.
