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Cezanne Father.jpg In his 1945 essay entitled "Cézanne's Doubt", Merleau-Ponty discusses how Cézanne gave up classic artistic elements such as pictorial arrangements, single view perspectives, and outlines that enclosed color in an attempt to get a "lived perspective" by capturing all the complexit...

Paul_Cézanne_-_The_Basket_of_Apples.jpg In my ideal of a good painting; there's unity. The drawing and the color are no longer distinct; as soon as you paint you draw; the more the colors harmonize, the more precise the drawing becomes. I know that from experience. When the color is at its richest,...

Compress_5147.jpg That's my great ambition. To be sure! Every time I attack a canvas, I feel convinced, I believe that something's going to come of it. But I immediately remember that I've always failed before. Then I taste blood. I never know where I am going or where I want to go with this damned...

Montagne-Sainte-Victoire-770x603.jpg With a little bit of temperament one can manage to be a painter. It's enough to have a sense of art, and that sense is no doubt what the bourgeoisie fear most. For a painter, sensation is at the bottom of everything. I will go on repeating it forever. Procedures...

Compress_20230913_131019_9118.jpg Treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone, the whole put into perspective so that each side of an object, or of a plane, leads towards a central point. Lines parallel to the horizon give breadth, whether a sections of nature, or, if you prefer...

Le-moulin_sur_la_Couleuvre_a_Pontoise.jpg As with the old masters, for Cézanne the basis of painting was drawing, but the prerequisite for all work was subordination to the object, or the eye or pure looking: "All the painter’s intentions must be silent. He should silence all voices of prejudice. F...

La_Maison_du_pendu,_Auvers-sur-Oise,_par_Paul_Cézanne,_FWN_81.jpg Make others feel the same way about it. Without their realizing it! That's the meaning of art. Yes, what I'm aiming for is the logical development of what we see and feel when we observe nature; only then I'm concerned with the proce...

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The Fall of the House of Disney

Paul Cézanne

On the one hand, I agree with Montaigne (and I'm paraphrasing here): I don't care whether or not I win an argument just so long as the truth wins. On the other hand, we have the example of the story of Jesus's temptation in the wilderness where the Devil, like a good theologian, quotes scripture; al...

Happy Easter BYP, The following may or may not be germane to your subject tonight. Of late, I have been finding the whole Ehrman-Carrier back and forth fascinating. As regards the subject of Osiris: Here is Ehrman's side of their kerfuffle. Richard Carrier: A Fuller Reply to His Criticisms, Beliefs,...