Class #2
Cezanne wanted his brushstrokes to be visible to the viewer, as did most Impressionists.

  •  This resulted in a less polished appearance overall, meant to show immediacy.
  •  Cezanne frequently used a palette knife in lieu of a brush to achieve this effect.
  •  Close inspection of his paintings often show hundreds of short brush strokes, an example of Cezanne's perfectionism and attention to detail.
  • Cezanne was serious about realism, 


Cezanne used darker colors early in his career, but his palette gradually lightened over time, probably an influence of Impressionism.
  • Cezanne is well known for using flat brushstrokes initially, then going back in adding contrasting light and dark tones for a three-dimensional effect.
  • His initial strokes were usually simple primary colors which he mixed on the canvas instead of the palette.
  •  This set him apart from the Impressionists of his time with their use of bright colors.
  •  As Cezanne matured, he mixed and blended colors less, so his forms were like patches of distinct color.
  •  This method was very influential with Cubist painters.
  •  Cezanne skillfully used color to provide depth and perspective in his paintings.
This work is perhaps one of Cezanne's greatest still lives.
  • But Cezanne was not interested in conveying the different textures of the objects, as were Dutch 17th-century painters: objects were important to him only as far as they presented clear, three-dimensional forms.
  •  The contrasting of different masses, modeled by resonant light, creates a dynamic composition and gives an element of tension to the space.
  • At the same time, the painting is dominated by a balance of form and color which creates an impression of unity and stability in this material world.
  • Despite the prosaic subject matter, the components of the still life exist in a world of supra-real, essential values.
  • They embody the powerful energy of nature, eternal and yet eternally changing.

Still life study
Please bring  a small object to the class and incorporate in your composition .think about the composition when choosing the object
like a book ,paintbrushes, cellphone, your coffee cup 
and we will add the violin  bow. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM1zJBa4rdw&feature=fvwp&NR=1