Now I will discuss the middle ground of the painting. The middle ground consists of a triangular shape and of the roadway leading back to the focal point. Together with the Roman Aqueduct, which resembles bridge, a triangular shape is forged. It le Continue Reading...
Nineteenth Century Painting and Photography
Georges Seurat's La Grande Jatte
Georges Seurat was a post-Impressionist painter with a fascination for a mixture of urban life and rural landscape. His painting techniques are usually referred to as avan Continue Reading...
Whereas Plato believes that art is by definition imitation of life, Cezanne believed that the role of art was not to imitate or copy life but to enhance it, contribute to it, and comment on it. Cezanne said that art was a "harmony running parallel to Continue Reading...
Spirit of Change
a) In Still Life with Plaster Cast, the viewer sees a painting-within-a-painting. Identify and describe another work in your text that uses a similar approach.
Cezanne's Post-Impressionist 'take' on the constructed nature of art is Continue Reading...