Artistic Purpose To convey the message that his pictures were flat, painted canvases, not imitations of reality.To paint nature convincingly so as to reveal its basic structures and their relationships in space: “Interpret nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone…”.
Artistic Credo A painting is an artistic composition separate from reality—a creation rather than a reproduction.Creation must be based on the contemplation of nature.For the sake of composition, objects are distorted, reduced into basic geometrical shapes, and presented from multiple points of view.
Portraits The sitter is not portrayed as an individual nor within the context of social criticism.The human head, like an apple, can be seen as nothing more than a convenient geometric starting point for a composition in which every element was treated with equal respect and attention.
Still Lifes: A Challenge in the Investigation of Visual Perception A means of creating a new reality: making observers aware that what they were looking at was an image on a two-dimensional canvasA means of achieving a canvas that could be appreciated for itself as a solidly composed structure of forms and colors
Multiple Points of View
Landscapes—Mont Sainte-Victoire Exercises in neutralizing the effects of perspective in favor of a unified picture space: developing an independent harmonious composition in “harmony in parallel with nature” Exercises in editing Exercises in expressing nature as architecture
Perspective is not achieved through lines of sight converging on a common vanishing point.Isolated diagonals and verticals, in the form of paths, aqueducts, or towering pine trees cut through the compositions to give the impression of depthPassage (overlapping planes of color) create the impression of depth
Cézanne’s Compositional Methods SizeCentral axisColorForm
The Bathers Settings and figures have equal emphasis Integration of style and subject Multiple points of view
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