Chapter 1
The stubborn rebel of Aix-en-Provence
Chapter 2
Painting with geometry and apples
Chapter 3
The obsession with Mont Sainte-Victoire
Chapter 4
The father of us all
YOUR GOAL
Master of The art of Paul Cézanne
Ch 2 · Painting with geometry and apples
streetspirit Painting with Geometry and Apples
Find the sphere in every apple you hold, With cones and cylinders of crimson and gold.
streetspirit A cylinder, sphere, and cone shape a sturdy tree trunk and round apple
streetspirit Cézanne painted still lifes of fruit so slowly that they often rotted before he finished.
BETA
streetspirit Sort apples and spheres to learn how Cézanne saw nature through basic geometric shapes.
Fun Fact
The rotting fruit: Paul Cézanne's still-life models often rotted, forcing him to switch to realistic wax fruits to finish his slow, painstaking paintings.
Glossary
still life (noun)
A painting or other work of art depicting an arrangement of inanimate objects. Paul Cézanne revolutionized the genre in 1893 with his masterpiece featuring a tilted basket of fruit.
A painting or other work of art depicting an arrangement of inanimate objects. Paul Cézanne revolutionized the genre in 1893 with his masterpiece featuring a tilted basket of fruit.
Quiz
Which color temperature did Paul Cézanne use to make objects appear closer to the viewer?
streetspirit Cézanne abandoned traditional perspective to show objects from multiple viewpoints simultaneously.
Quiz
How did Paul Cézanne's use of perspective differ from traditional Renaissance perspective?
Quiz
Which three geometric shapes did Paul Cézanne say could represent all forms in nature?
Quiz
Why did Paul Cézanne often use artificial or wax fruit for his still-life paintings?
Quiz
In Cézanne's still lifes, what did he often place under plates or fruit to tilt them?