Frases de Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne foi um pintor pós-impressionista francês, cujo trabalho forneceu as bases da transição das concepções do fazer artístico do século XIX para a arte radicalmente inovadora do século XX. Cézanne pode ser considerado como a ponte entre o impressionismo do final do século XIX e o cubismo do início do século XX. A frase atribuída a Matisse e a Picasso, de que Cézanne "é o pai de todos nós", deve ser levada em conta.

Após uma fase inicial dedicada aos temas dramáticos e grandiloquentes próprios da escola romântica, Paul Cézanne criou um estilo próprio, influenciado por Delacroix.

Introduziu nas suas obras distorções formais e alterações de perspectiva em benefício da composição ou para ressaltar o volume e peso dos objetos. Concebeu a cor de um modo sem precedentes, definindo diferentes volumes que foram essenciais para suas composições únicas.

Cézanne não se subordinava às leis da perspectiva e, sim, as modificava. A sua concepção da composição era arquitectônica; segundo as suas próprias palavras, o seu próprio estilo consistia em ver a natureza segundo as suas formas fundamentais: a esfera, o cilindro e o cone. Ele chamava seu método de modulação. Cézanne preocupava-se mais com a captação destas formas do que com a representação do ambiente atmosférico. Não é difícil ver nesta atitude uma reação de carácter intelectual contra o gozo puramente colorido do impressionismo.

Sobre ele, Renoir escreveu, rebatendo o crítico de arte Castagnary: Eu me enfureço ao pensar que ele [Castagnary] não entendeu que Uma Moderna Olympia, de Cézanne, era uma obra prima clássica, mais próxima de Giorgione que de Claude Monet, e que diante dele estava um pintor já fora do Impressionismo.Cézanne cultivava sobretudo a paisagem e a representação de naturezas-mortas, mas também pintou figuras humanas em grupo e retratos. Antes de começar as suas paisagens, estudava-as e analisava os seus valores plásticos, reduzindo-as depois a diferentes volumes e planos que traçava à base de pinceladas paralelas. Árvores, casas e demais elementos da paisagem subordinam-se à unidade de composição. As suas paisagens são sutilmente geométricas. Cézanne pintou, sobretudo, a sua Provença natal .

Nas suas numerosas naturezas-mortas, tipicamente compostas por maçãs, levava, a cabo, uma exploração formal exaustiva que é a terra fecunda de onde surgirá o cubismo poucos anos mais tarde. Entre as representações de grupos humanos, são muito apreciadas as suas cinco versões de Os Jogadores de Cartas. A Mulher com Cafeteira, pela sua estrutura monumental e serena, marca o grande momento classicista de Cézanne. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. Janeiro 1839 – 22. Outubro 1906
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Paul Cézanne frases e citações

Paul Cézanne: Frases em inglês

“Painting from nature is not copying the object, it is realizing sensations.”

Fonte: Quotes of Paul Cezanne, after 1900, Cézanne, - a Memoir with Conversations, (1897 - 1906), p. 46, in: 'What I know or have seen of his life'

“As a painter I am beginning to see more clearly how to work from Nature... But I still can't do justice to the intensity unfolding before my eyes.”

Quote in Cezanne's letter to his son Paul, a few months before his death; as quoted in The Private Lives of the Impressionists Sue Roe; Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 2006, p. 268
Quotes of Paul Cezanne, after 1900

“You positively paint like a madman.”

As quoted in: 'Mercure de France', 16 December 1908, p. 607
remark to Vincent van Gogh, ca. 1886 in Paris. Van Gogh showed Cezanne some of his recent paintings, he recently made in Paris
Quotes of Paul Cezanne, 1880s - 1890s

“To my mind one does not put oneself in place of the past, one only adds a new link.”

Quote of 1906 from a letter; cited in Paul Cézanne, Letters ed. John Rewald, New York, Da Capro Press, 1995, p. 313
Quotes of Paul Cezanne, after 1900

“But there are motifs that would need three or four months' work, which could be done, as the vegetation doesn't change here. There are the olive trees and the pines that always keep their leaves. The sun is so fierce that objects seem to be silhouetted, not only in black or white, but in blue, red, brown, violet. I may be wrong, but this seems to be the very opposite of 'modeling'. How happy the gentle landscapists of Auvers would be here, and that [con, or 'bastard'? ] Guillemet.”

Quote from Cezanne's letter to Camille Pissarro, from L'Estaque 2 July 1876, taken from Alex Danchev, The Letters of Paul Cézanne, 2013; as quoted in the 'Daily Beast' online, 13 Oct. 2013 https://www.thedailybeast.com/cezannes-letter-to-pissarro-picture-business-isnt-going-well
'The very opposite of 'modeling' meant roughly that Cézanne and Pissarro in their common painting-years in open air would lay down one plane or patch of color next to another in the painting, without any 'modeling' or shading between them - so that it looked as if each component part of the painting could be picked up from the canvas a little like a 'playing card from the table', as Cezanne explains here.
Quotes of Paul Cezanne, 1860s - 1870s

“You wretch! [Cezanne is portraying the art dealer Vollard who changed his pose during the painter session] You've spoiled the pose. Do I have to tell you again you must sit like an apple? Does an apple move?”

Quote from a conversation in Cézanne's studio in Paris, ca. 1896-98; as quoted in Cezanne, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 74
Quotes of Paul Cezanne, 1880s - 1890s

“Everybody's going crazy over the Impressionists; what art needs is a Poussin made over according to nature. There you have it in a nutshell.”

Quote from a conversation with Vollard, in the studio of Cézanne, in Aix, 1896; as quoted in Cezanne, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 67
Quotes of Paul Cezanne, 1880s - 1890s

“Let's not eliminate nature. Too bad if we fail. You see, in his 'Dejeuner sur l'herbe', Manet ought to have added - I don't know what - a touch of this nobility, whatever it is in this picture that conveys heaven to our every sense. Look at the golden flow of the tall woman, the other one's back... They are alive and they are divine.”

Fonte: Quotes of Paul Cezanne, after 1900, Cézanne, - a Memoir with Conversations, (1897 - 1906), p. 186 in: 'What he told me – II. The Louvre' [standing in the Louvre in front of the painting 'Le concert Champêtre', painted by Giorgioni (ca. 1510)

“If I dared, I should say that your [ Camille Pissarro ] letter is imprinted with sadness. The picture business isn't going well; I fear that your morale may be colored a little grey, but I'm sure that it's only a passing phase… I imagine that you would be delighted with the country where I am now…. in ', who had talked to me about it. It's like a playing card. Red roofs against the blue sea. If the weather turns favorable perhaps I'll be able to finish them off.”

Quote from Cezanne's letter to Camille Pissarro, from L'Estaque 2 July 1876, taken from Alex Danchev, The Letters of Paul Cézanne, 2013; as quoted in the 'Daily Beast' online, 13 Oct. 2013 https://www.thedailybeast.com/cezannes-letter-to-pissarro-picture-business-isnt-going-well
Quotes of Paul Cezanne, 1860s - 1870s

“I saw Monet and Renoir at about the end of December; they had been on holiday in Genoa, in Italy.”

Quote in Cezanne's letter to Emile Zola, 23rd February 1884; as quoted in Renoir – his life and work, Francois Fosca, Book Club Associates /Thames and Hudson Ltd, London 1975, p. 175
Quotes of Paul Cezanne, 1880s - 1890s