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Apples and Oranges: Paul Cezanne

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Work Overview: Apples and Oranges
Paul Cezanne
Date: c.1900
Style: Post-Impressionism
Period: Final period
Genre: still life
Media: oil, canvas
Dimensions: 93 x 74 cm
Location: Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

Though Cézanne painted still life compositions from the start of his career, it was only in later years that this genre began to occupy an essential place in his work. Apples and Oranges belongs to this period.

It forms part of a series of six still lifes produced in 1899 in Cézanne's Parisian studio. Each painting features the same accessories: earthenware dishes and a jug decorated with a floral motif. Their arrangement is also similar, with a draped cloth, reminiscent of 17th century Flemish still lifes, closing the perspective. However, the dynamic effect created by a complex spatial construction and Cézanne's subjective perception of the arranged objects illustrate his essentially pictorial approach.

Through the rigour and plasticity of his artistic language, Cézanne brings new life to a genre traditional in French painting since Chardin. Apples and Oranges, which combines modernity and sumptuous beauty, is the most important still life produced by artist in the late 1890's.

Still-lifes provided Cézanne an opportunity to paint things in accordance with his conception of form, and he could subject them to lengthier scrutiny than he could human sitters. In still-lifes he could explore ways of establishing visual harmony and three-dimensionality more thoroughly.

In the latter half of the 1890s Cézanne increasingly did more opulent, spatially more dynamic, indeed baroque compositions. These pictures are far removed from the straight representation of a laid table. No one would pile crockery, fruit, a brocade drape and a crumpled tablecloth on a chest in this way. This is painting for its own sake, with its own rules.

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