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Selling Paintings Highlights - Paul Cézanne - The Bather

The Bather is one of Cézanne's most evocative figure paintings, although the slender muscles of the torso and arms reveal no heroic aspirations and the drawing, in accordance with traditional 21st-century canons, is crude and imprecise. The bather's left leg is forward and firmly resting on the ground, while the right, drawn back, bears no weight. The right side of the body is raised compared to the left, the chin asymmetrically lowered, the right arm oblong and oblique. The landscape is as barren as a desert, but the colors green, purple, and pink belie this definition. The dreamy vastness is well suited to the pensive bather. Likewise, the shadows of the body do not tend towards black, but take on the tones of air, earth, and water, and the brushstrokes create a network of impetuous yet extremely refined hatchings and stains. The figure comes towards us but does not meet our gaze. It is a typically modern restlessness, revealing the fact that, despite Cézanne's profound respect for traditional art, he did not represent the male nude like classical or Renaissance artists. "He wanted an art that was solid and lasting, like the art of museums," but which also reflected modern sensibilities and the new way of conceiving visual impressions and light. of the Impressionists. He wanted an art of his time that challenged the tradition of the past.
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