Paul Cezanne Adapted Impressionist Technique

Paul Cezanne was a Post-Impressionist who adopted their technique by placing brushstrokes side by side on his canvases, but he was never interested in their focus on light and colour. He had no interest in the constant changing face of nature in the swings of light, but would rather focus on the stability and instability of things as the complexity that needed to be brought to life. There was a solidity and something very serious in his approach and he observed for a long time before he put any brush strokes to his canvas. Many artists took him to heart before his death in 1906 and even more so continue to do so since.

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Vincent Van Gogh Valued Color Intensely, Loved Vibrant Life - Podcast

Don Maclean’s song, Vincent, always comes to mind when one thinks of Vincent van Gogh. Vincent van Gogh had a hypersensitivity to the world around him and that he applied to his art as well. Dense, colourful brushstrokes hurled into the heart of matter and humans alike. He valued color intensely and he loved vibrant life intensely, and thus he went with bare skin right into the abyss.

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