Cezanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors FROM THE PUBLISHER
"In the last years of his life, Paul Cezanne produced a series of watercolors, many of them still lifes. Still Life with Blue Pot is one of these late masterpieces that is now in the collection of the Getty Museum." In Cezanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors, Carol Armstrong places this great painting within the context of Cezanne's artistic and psychological development and of the history of the genre of still life in France.
SYNOPSIS
Armstrong (art, Princeton U.) has looked long and hard at Cezanne as this painstaking analysis on a very defined part of his oeuvre demonstrates. Using a watercolor at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles as the center of her discussion, Armstrong discusses Cezanne's approaches to still life and the medium of watercolor and the development of his treatment of various forms, lines, colors, and issues of composition. Many of the works discussed were part of an exhibition held at the Getty in 2004. The volume is oversize: 10.25x11.5". Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
FROM THE CRITICS
Christopher Benfey - The New York Times
In ''Still Life With Blue Pot,'' owned by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, ''the human journey is charted, not in ancient Rome, but on the tabletop,'' Armstrong writes, ''not on Mount Olympus but at the intersection between domestic and studio life, between the painter's eye and hand.'' Armstrong, who has a rare gift for conveying difficult points without getting entangled in a thicket of jargon, gives us an excellent capsule biography of ''the hermit painter and master of Aix.'' She notes how a geranium in one still life ''leans with human fervor toward the window,'' and ''with its straining stem . . . is more alive than any portrait . . . Cezanne ever painted.''
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