Paintings

             Paul Cezanne's Mont Saint Victoire and Sonia Delaunay's Electric Prisms seem to be
             quite different. Electric Prisms is a painting of shape and color. These shapes are
             abstract. Mont Sainte Victoire is a painting of a mountain, a sky and a valley. Mont
             Saint Victoire and Electric Prisms are really similar in three important ways; color,
             The colors in the two paintings are remarkably alike. The artists used oil on
             canvas in these two works. They both express color as the universal element. Another
             important feature is that each color blends into another shade of that specific color.
             A second important similarity between Mont Sainte Victoire and Electric Prisms
             lies within the space. There is absolutely no plain areas in these works. Every area is
             completely filled with unique design.
             In addition to these similarities in color and space, these two paintings express the
             dominant values and shapes. Cezanne used geometric solids. These shapes are
             distributed throughout the landscape. Delaunay's shapes are also distributed throughout
             the landscape. She used shapes that are more visible. In this painting we can see that
             In their color, space and shape, Mont Sainte Victoire and Electric Prisms are
             clearly similar. Both paintings employ dominant shades of colors. Both paintings
             present crowded areas that are attractive to the eye. And both paintings express the
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