“Avec une pomme, je veux étonner Paris!”
(with an apple, I want to surprise Paris)
Paul Cézanne
This work is a take on Paul Cézanne’s trademark white with red border tablecloth present in almost all of his still life paintings. The original formats of his rectangular canvases have been superposed in their exact sizes on a white tablecloth.
(...) In Paul Cézanne’s table rectangular composition, the tablecloth is a powerful contrast and an element of disorder; we are surprised by its complexity, its alien character among the compact objects on the table.
It is like a mountain, a rocky creviced mass, or like some human figure, twisting and turning, with an inner balance of directions (...)
It is like a mountain, a rocky creviced mass, or like some human figure, twisting and turning, with an inner balance of directions (...)
Exhibition: Stilled Life/ Islip Museum NY, Curated by historian Daria Brit Shapiro
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Still life Series 2021, pencil, acrylic on paper, 8 x 10 in. each
