Cézanne: Landscape into Art

The book by the leading, internationally renowned Cézanne scholar Pavel Machotka puts the work of Paul Cézanne in a new light. The famous artist is often evaluated only in terms of the importance he played in the history of painting - as a forerunner of the Cubists and the father of modern art. He is rarely presented as a painter who worked at a particular time, in a particular place, and with his own intentions. Pavel Machotka considers Cézanne to be not only a creator fully dedicated to his work, but also a man who thought about it intensively and analytically. He has traced and photographed dozens of places where Cézanne painted. He analyses his creative process, how landscape transforms in painting. He comes to the realisation that he relied perfectly on his own vision, on the basis of which he was able to build a precisely constructed and at the same time sensitive picture of reality. His paintings thus capture what he actually saw, on the one hand, and on the other hand, they are compositions of their own with an almost musical dynamic. Each work is thus an original reaction that is created according to the requirements of a particular motif.

Antiquarian book.