Bathers #37
by Paul Cezanne
Title
Bathers #37
Artist
Paul Cezanne
Medium
Painting - Painting
Description
The Bathers by Paul Cezanne
This is the largest, the last, and in many ways, the most ambitious work from Cézanne’s lifelong exploration of the time-honored theme of nudes in a landscape. It is also, perhaps, in its unfinished state, the purest and most serene witness to the man whom Paul Gauguin described as spending “entire days on mountaintops reading Virgil,” dreaming of wooded glades populated with beautiful figures who, if not exactly participants in a narrative as such, are full of animation and interaction. Perhaps it is its grand nobility—its authority as something beyond time, “like art in the museums,” as Cézanne said—that made it so attractive to many artists.
“Cézanne is the father of us all”. This lapidary phrase has been attributed to both Picasso and Matisse, and it certainly matters little who actually said it, because it is true in any case.
Riding the wave of fresh air that Impressionism represented, Cézanne left the entire Impressionist group behind to develop a style of painting hitherto unseen, which opened the door wide for the arrival of Cubism and the rest of the 20th century avant-garde.
Paul Cézanne was born on January 19, 1839 in Aix-en-Provence, in Provence, in the south of France. At the age of 13, he entered the Collège Cézanne Bourbon, where he became friends with the future writer Émile Zola. Encouraged by Zola, he decided to become an artist and moved to Paris in 1861. Already in Paris, Cézanne met Camille Pissarro, known as “the father of impressionism”. Cézanne’s works were exhibited at the first Salon des Refusées show in 1863, which exhibited works not accepted by the official jury of the Paris Salon. Cézanne was influenced by the Impressionist painters, but by then he was already developing a personal style of painting.
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