Moma cézanne

Self-Portrait

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( Kb); Oil on canvas, 25 5/8 x 20 5/8"; Tate Gallery, London

We have from Cézanne's hand over thirty self-portraits. They are not only documents of his appearance over the four decades of his career as a painter; they also indicate a continued self-concern surprising in an artist of classic tendency.

In several of them, this selfawareness struggles with his pictorial impulse or habit, and we sometimes find together in the same portrait acutely observed physiognomic features and some geometric detail that gives an abstract inhuman air to the part.

We have become so used to looking at Cézanne's forms as constructive relationships that we elrter with difficulty into the expression of the lines and areas.

The bather cézanne

In this portrait with the intense right eye, the prominent brow, the beard and mouth sunk into the body with hunched shoulders, what is the meaning of the lozenge pattern of the wall paper? What does it do to the face and the picture?

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