A video essay on the art of Paul Cezanne. Subscribe to the channel for more video essays.
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This video essay considers the paintings of Paul Cezanne, the French post-impressionist. I consider his art as a form of capturing a higher truth of reality, a reflection of our selves and discuss the ideas of Hippolyte Taine - that we use art to gain distance, and perspective, on things that are too dangerous up close.
There has been much written about Impressionism as an art style, and what it means to have washed out colours, in hues that are at times brighter than reality. In my view – the hues that Paul Cezanne used in his paintings are the colour of memory. We remember our past as bright, the colours faded and yet vibrant and thrumming with life. It is the beauty of memory that everything ends up with that same summer glow, as if the grey monotony has been washed out of the world. In retrospect, everything looks like a dream. The artist is nothing more than a philosopher of colours, painting the idea of memory and time into being.
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