Cezanne
Another artist who drew his inspiration from outdoors was Cezanne, who also had a distinct style of painting. To move away from the style of the broken colour of the impressionists, Cezanne devised a system of modulating the colours from a volume of cool to warm or light to dark.
In this painting we are able to see how Cezanne literally escapes the use of encompassing lines. The artist loses the edges in this painting, producing an image that passes into the background, achieving a sense of colour balance and harmony. Instead, the lines would virtually disappear off the edge of the work creating a sense of more volume. He also used the same weight of colour in both foreground and background, which created an anti-illusionistic effect. Instead, light itself becomes part of the colour harmony and decorative contrast. This technique, for example, can be seen in Cezanne's Still Life with Apples, a Bottle and a Milk Pot. Cezanne's composition of colours reminds me of a tapestry. It seems to me that Cezanne seldom made a line around his paintings. Unlike the impressionists, Cezanne did not aim to capture a glimpse of light. I also think that it is prototypical for abstract art, which would follow later.
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