Cezanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780892366231)

In the last years of his life, Paul Cezanne produced a stunning series of watercolours, many of them still lifes. Still Life with Blue Pot is one of these late masterpieces; it is now in the collection of the Getty Museum. In Cezanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors, Carol Armstrong places this great painting within the context of Cezanne's artistic and psychological development and of the history of the genre of still life in France. Still life - like the medium of watercolour - was traditionally considered to be low in the hierarchy of French academic painting. watercolours that contained echoes of grand landscapes and even historical paintings in the manner of Poussin - the highest of classical art forms. In so doing, he charged his still lifes with new meanings; both in terms of his own notoriously difficult personality and in the way he used the genre to explore the very process of looking at, and creating, art. Carol Armstrong's study - published to coincide with an exhibition at the Getty Museum from October 12, 2004 to January 2, 2005 - is a fascinating exploration of the brilliant watercolour paintings that brought Cezanne's career to a complex, and triumphant, conclusion. The book includes new photographic studies of the Getty's painting that allow the reader to encounter this great watercolour as never before - in its full richness and detail.

Author: Carol Armstrong
ISBN-10: 0892366230
ISBN-13: 9780892366231
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2004
Pages: 148
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.75lbs
Size: 11.32h x 10.16w x 0.76d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2005 pg. 1389
New York Times 12/05/2004 pg. 12