Sharjah: Aladdin Mahmoud
Many painters excelled in depicting nature, but it is credited to the French Paul Cézanne (1839 1906), that he made a great leap in dealing with natural scenes, as he worked on reformulating them, and thus it paved the way for the theory of modern abstract art that appeared in the twentieth century, and Cézanne belongs To the Impressionist school, and one of his most important topics is still life, portraits, and human features.
Cézanne had a great influence on many art movements in the twentieth century, following the schools of brutalism, cubism, abstraction, etc., and is considered by many critics the pioneer of modern art, because his style was a transitional stage in the interest of a major change in the history of art, which is Thus, he is considered the most prominent pioneer of modern art in all its various forms and currents.
The painting “Fruit and a Jug on the Table”, which Cézanne executed during four years (1890-1894), is one of the most works that indicate his fondness for silent nature or still life, which is considered one of his most important artistic and creative subjects. different, but he always returned to the subject of still life, which he was completely obsessed with, a creative style that was often ignored in art history by critics and historians as non-fiction, but Cézanne declared the challenge and interested in this artistic genre in particular, he focused on everyday things and small details and raises their aesthetic value, and he was particularly attracted to the fruit that he employed in highlighting the relationship between things in nature and the harmony and balance in the artistic and aesthetic composition. For things, he was interested in seeing the viewer of the painting through methods that differ from one person to another and that reveal different experiences, but I think that the one viewer differs in his view of the same work from time to time, and perhaps this is what made Cézanne think Wal: “Painting from nature is not a copying of something, but rather an awareness of human feelings.”
gravity
The painting “Fruit and a Jug on a Table” is one of the simplest paintings that Cézanne drew, and that simplicity, in particular, is the most important element that attracts the viewer to that work, and then incites him to meditate on it and unleash his imagination in order to form an idea or a group of ideas regarding it. The work displays the artist’s exploration of form, balance and symmetry in objects. The subject of the painting is a wooden table on which a large ceramic jug and a fruit bowl filled with apples and oranges are placed to the left of the painting, along with a curtain hanging in a decorative wall, and a white cloth spread on the table with various fruits placed between the folds The cloth, and it is noted that the pottery jug is depicted in a unique way, in contrast to the ordinary perspective; That is, other than what the viewer can see, it has been brilliantly adapted to the shapes of the fruit and other elements of the composition, as well as the rich colors of the elements are presented with a full range of different shades, and the artist seeks to make the viewer take the impression, by employing colors, that the fruit is warm and lively, while The jug looks cool, and the canvas appears more realistic, which indicates a unique skill of Cézanne. The work was carried out through brushstrokes and the employment of shadows and colors so that the beholder feels the size and three-dimensionality of each joint in the painting.
color scheme
The painting is an artistic composition that focuses mainly on highlighting the symmetry of things, and its genius lies in the artist’s ingenuity in employing colors so that it gives the viewer a sense that the work is very realistic. The painting is divided horizontally, from the bottom one can see some juicy color and warm contrast while the upper and left parts have a cooler atmosphere, and the viewer can hardly see that there are curves in the painting, so that the whole picture becomes as realistic as possible.
philosophy
The painting expresses Cézanne’s vision and philosophy in the arts. The artist’s visual, and this is what the viewer notices in the painting “a jug and fruit on the table”, where it seems that the simple brushstrokes themselves speak visual poetry regardless of the subject of the painting, where the artist wants to refer to the dialogue, harmony and harmony between the vocabulary in the artwork, the painting is Among the works that expressed Cézanne’s break with the methods of the traditional impressionists, especially with regard to the treatment of perspective, light and shadows, Cézanne refused to imitate the nature he painted and began looking for new innovative solutions to reach his goals, and he was eventually able to see in the natural elements that he draws geometric shapes instead Of natural forms and he filled these spaces with different colors, and that is what he did in the painting “Fruit and a Jug on the Table”, and many other works.
style
Cézanne was one of the most brilliant artists who dealt with still nature and the best of them ever. He used a different stylistic, for he resorted to employing sharp lines, geometric shapes, and rich colors, and this is what distinguished Cézanne from others in drawing silent nature, so we note that the fruit in this painting , and a number of other works, differ somewhat from what is in nature, as they take a geometric shape, and one of the jokes is that one of the critics criticized the shape of the apple in Cézanne’s paintings, because it takes a geometric shape instead of the natural, so Cézanne replied to him: “My apple is not for eating.” This is a profound response, as the apple and the rest of the fruit in his paintings express his vision and refusal to paint nature as it really is, and thus it will not harm anyone because it is not originally for food.
