Paul Cezanne
The Apples
Cezanne was born in the South of France and
studied in Paris. France is on the other side of
the Atlantic Ocean.
Cezanne liked to paint still lifes. Here
are two examples.
A still life is a painting of fruit, flowers,
food or objects that are NON LIVING.
Cezanne painted close to 200 of these.
Cezanne also painted more than 20 self
portraits.
He said he wanted the models to
stay as still as an apple!
Maybe this is why most people weren’t
willing to “sit” for him in a painting!
Portraits of Paul and Madame Cezanne
Cezanne concentrated on an object’s basic
shape and its color. He liked to paint apples a
lot because they didn’t move and he could
observe them for as long as he liked.
Cezanne painted dozens and
dozens of apples! He studied
apples and once said, “I want
to astonish Paris with an
apple!”
Look at the apples in this picture. They look real because they have
“depth.” They are three dimensional or 3-D and you don’t need
glasses to see it, do you?
PERSEPECTIVE is a technique that makes us believe an
object on a flat surface has DEPTH.
DEPTH—A cube has depth.
A square does not have depth—
it looks flat.
A cube has depth---it doesn’t
look flat.
Circle and sphere—one is flat and one
has dimension or depth.
A circle is flat….
A sphere is like a 3-D circle!
A triangle is another flat shape. What
is the 3-D shape of a triangle?
It’s a CONE!!!!!
Apples and oranges are spheres. They
have depth. They are not flat.
This is a painting by Paul Cezanne. It is of apples and
oranges. What shape are apples and oranges?
Dish of Apples
Paul Cezanne also knew that there were different colors in apples and
oranges too. Look at all the different colors in these apples. What colors
do you see? Doesn’t it look like you can take one of these apples and eat
them?
Let’s Try to Draw a Cube
Making squares look like a cube!
Now the squares look like they have depth!
Look what happens when we do this
with different colors!
And now look at what we put INSIDE!
Now let’s try to draw a cylinder!
Can we make an apple look real?
Remember two very
important things:
3-D (depth)
And
Color—shading
Remember an apple is
NOT flat—it is not a
circle it is a sphere.