Cézanne And Maureen Gallace: Art Analysis

Art is a form of communication that allows the artist to express their emotions to the viewer. Works evoke emotions in people, which results in varying perceptions because each viewer interprets art differently depending on cultural background, personal history, and many other factors. The artist Paul Cézanne and Maureen Gallace are both similar in the way they reflect their content in art by recreating everyday objects and transferring what they see onto the canvas by interpreting their emotions through their art. Cézanne art is abstract, he chose this style because he believes that paintings are just paintings and not a mere depiction on nature. Gallace was inspired by Cézanne work which lead her to create abstract art. Gallace has the …show more content…
He would usually work on three or four paintings at a time and whenever he was dissatisfied he would scrape off some his work and even destroyed some pieces. Cézanne exhibits the idea that every brush stroke is important because you’re intentionally displaying a certain emotion (Alsdorf, 315). His “painting is motivated solely by this hand-eye procedure and the formal composition it generates, a procedure independent of objective content and that content’s subjective associations in the artist’s mind” and that his art “engages in a self-reflexive study of the hand-eye operation that painting entails” (Alsdorf, 316). Cézanne wanted to show the “experience of the painter through his art” and the viewer is able to experience that by seeing all the detailed brush strokes on the canvas and the materials he used by just looking at the artwork (Metropolitan Museum). Gallace paints with the same precision Cézanne had, because she believes painting is about doing a lot of thinking and staring. Gallace portrays emotion by spending “a lot more time thinking about and looking at paint and paintings than she has thinking about and looking at scenery” (Schwabsky, 28). She is very precise on which colors she uses and what shapes she creates because each stroke on the canvas can create a different feeling. Gallace emphasizes the importance to be rigorous with her brush strokes and the colors she uses because she …show more content…
She knew that abstraction was for her after seeing Cézanne artwork. She was inspired by the way he would take an everyday object and make his various painting more than just coping an object. Gallace appreciates his work because Cézanne is tremendously wonderful at articulating his work with such precision and control. Her favorite idea that Cézanne had was that his artwork “wasn’t just about the one painting, but to keep going and get better and better” and try to put everything he knew into each of his paintings (Metropolitan Museum). Cézanne and Gallace both look at the landscape they’re going to paint and recreate it by interpreting what they see through their emotions and project that into their art. An example is, for Gallace “The ocean is much more than a site in these paintings; it is a presiding and defining force that elicits reverence and awe, wonderment and trepidation” (Volk, 92). This shows that Gallace interprets her landscape and takes that interpretation to display in her pieces of art. Cézanne is very similar in this as he sees his art as way to communicate his emotions through his canvas to his viewers. “Cézanne paintings were not so much pictures as they were meditations. Beauty, he suggests, cannot be possessed any more than the soul of another can be possessed. It can only be looked at, and for those who are