2006: The Year of Cézanne, part 2
25: Melun
From May 1879 through February 1880 Cézanne alternated his life and work between Paris and Melun. It was before nature, Nicolas Pioch writes, that Cézanne was seized by a sense of the mystery of the world to a depth never expressed by another artist. He saw that nothing exists in isolation: an obvious insight, yet one that only he could make us see. Things have colour and they have weight, and the colour and mass of each affects the weight of the other. It was to understand these rules that Cézanne dedicated his life. See the rest.
