Intro to Modern Art History
Denis, Maurice - The Muses (1893)
Maurice Denis painted walls. Not windows. In 1893, Paris obsessed over gaslight. Denis looked backward. He was twenty-three. Tired of...
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Denis, Maurice - April (1892)
Maurice Denis wasn’t painting gardens. He painted a soul's manifesto. The Nabis rejected clinical Impressionism. Denis declared art is flat...
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Cézanne, Paul - Pyramid of Skulls (1901)
Forget macabre. Cézanne didn't paint skulls for shock. It was 1901. A new century screamed with cold radiation and engines....
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Cézanne, Paul - Mont Sainte-Victoire (1902)
By 1902, the world was melting. Cézanne saw it. Old certainties dissolving. Einstein rethinking time. Automobiles roaring. He retreated to...
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Cézanne, Paul - Madame Cezanne in a Red Armchai...
Paul Cezanne didn't paint his wife for love. He painted her because she could hold still. Paris buzzed with fleeting...
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Cézanne, Paul - The Large Bathers (1906)
Paul Cézanne fought the noise. The world roared into a new century. He retreated. He built his own silent cathedral....
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Cézanne, Paul - The Gardener Vallier (1906)
Paul Cézanne. 1906. He gripped his brush like a weapon against time. The world was screaming forward. Fauves were tearing...
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Cézanne, Paul - The Card Players (1892)
Cézanne ignored Paris. He ditched the industrial revolution's noise. Back in Provence, he chased something solid. Not fleeting impressions. He...
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Cézanne, Paul - Basket of Apples (1893)
Cézanne wasn't painting pretty fruit. He spent weeks staring at apples until they rotted. He wanted to capture the permanent...
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Cézanne, Paul - Portrait of the Artist with a P...
In 1890, Paul Cézanne rejected the polished lies of the Belle Époque. Smelling of turpentine and damp wool, he painted...
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