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The Scientific Outlook of Cézanne

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Extract

For some while now it has been the fashion to write about Cézanne. Numerous exhibitions of his paintings have been held and a flood of criticism in notices and books has poured forth; yet much remains to be seen and said. The reason for this is that his peculiar approach to art was of the kind which continues to excite interest in the medium itself. We get from him not only an esthetic enjoyment but an imagination stimulated to dwell upon the possibilities of painting. No derogation of other painters, whose more conventional mastery of their craft has been responsible for canvases of great truth and beauty, is implied by the impetus given to the study of esthetics by Cézanne. It simply happens that at the turn of the century a high suggestiveness was imparted to painting at Aix.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1942

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References

1 Statesman, 284 A.

2 Statesman, 283-4.

3 Gerstle Mack, Paul Cézanne (New York, 1936, Knopf), p. 355 (hereinafter GM).

4 GM, 18.

5 GM, 18.

6 GM, 392.

7 Ambrose Vollard, Paul Cézanne, trans. H. L. van Doren (New York, 1923, Brown), p. 141.

8 GM, 323.

9 GM,246.

10 GM, vii. Italics mine.

11 GM, 306. The words are those of Emile Bernard.

12 GM, 17-8.

13 GM, 239.

14 GM, 377-8.

15 GM, 323.

16 GM, 390.

17 GM, 245.

18 GM, 250.

19 GM, 133.

20 GM, 390.

21 GM, 379.

22 GM, 240.

23 GM, 358.

24 GM, 364.