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"Among the surprises of this eye-opening book are the number of landscape motifs which are still recognizable, or were in the 1970s, when Machotka took most of his photographs. Aided by earlier research and photography, but mostly by his enthusiasm and diligence, he was able to refine know sites and discover new ones. This detective element is a trivial but added bonus to a book already rich with good reproductions of wonderful paintings, convincing photographic counterparts and thoughtful commentary. Machotka is described as professor of psychology and art. But he is also a painter, and it shows." -- Ruth Pavey
-- Times Literary Supplement
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published date: 1996
Size: 10 x 11.75 inches
Weight: 2.8 pounds
Pages: 156
Publisher's Notes
This beautiful book presents a new perspective on Paul Cézanne, one of the towering figures of nineteenth-century art. Pavel Machotka has photographed the sites of Cézanne's landscape paintings--whenever possible from the same spot and at the same time of day that Cézanne painted the scenes. Juxtaposing these color photographs with reproductions of the paintings, he offers a dazzling range of evidence to investigate how the great painter transformed nature into works of art.
Machotka, himself an artist, moves from painting to painting, examining textures and surfaces, pictorial rhythms, and inflections of tone. As he analyzes Cézanne's treatment of individual sites, their transposition into forms and colors, and the artist's responsiveness to the demands of each unique composition, we begin to see Cézanne as he saw himself: not as an early Cubist but as a painter who explored his motif for its rich compositional potential and presented a parallel and faithful conception of it. Using color to define form, while retaining hues that are anchored in reality, Cézanne achieved sensuous reconstructions rather than intellectual depictions like those of the Cubists.
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