Still Life with Apples (1890-1894) by Paul Cezanne

Still Life with Apples - Paul Cezanne - 1894

Artwork Information

TitleStill Life with Apples
ArtistPaul Cezanne
Date1894
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensions46 x 55 cm
Art MovementPost-Impressionism
Current LocationPrivate Collection
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About Still Life with Apples

Paul Cezanne’s Still Life with Apples is a masterpiece that showcases his fascination with optics and geometry. The artist aimed to capture the full complexity of how our eyes take in the sights before us, reducing naturally occurring forms to their geometric essentials. He explored the correspondences among objects in his still life paintings, searching for harmony and balance in form and color. In this painting, Cezanne used apples to experiment with shape, color, and lighting.

Cezanne consistently drew attention to the quality of paint and canvas in his artworks. He reshaped his conscious and unconscious desires through his paintings of still life objects like apples. The Basket of Apples is another prominent still life painting by Cezanne, where he showcases his joy in luxuriance and profusion of colorful things.

Despite experimenting with various objects in his paintings- flowers were rarely painted because they would wilt before completing his deliberations- Still Life with Apples is a testament to Cezanne’s ability to showcase harmonious relationships among objects in a simple but complex format. Through this painting style-ahead-of-his-time- he paved the way for 20th-century art emergence that thrived on breaking down complex concepts into simplistic tangible realities.

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