The House of the Hanged Man at Auvers
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Look carefully at The House of the Hanged Man at Auvers, 1872-1873, by Paul Cézanne. In not more than 500 words, explain why you think this painting was dismissed so scathingly by some critics when it was exhibited with the Independents in 1874.
The exhibition in 1874 was held by an independent group of artists known as the
Impressionists and was held outside the prestigious ‘Salon’.
When Paul Cézanne exhibited with the Independents in 1874, his painting of
‘The House of the Hanged Man at Auvers’ , his controversial method
and technique of art was only just emanating and was met with sarcasm and
vicious criticism.
Cézanne’s painting ‘ The House of the Hanged Man at Auvers’ is
characteristically Impressionist evident in the bright colours and vigorous
brushstrokes. He wanted to capture the effects of light through colour but
equally he was advertent of objects and structure. The objects in the painting are
solid and the rectangular shapes complement the composition. The two main
houses seem to be on the same plane and don’t recede in depth . There similar
structure creates the illusion of symmetry and the unstable looking ground is
completely different to the faint, definite open spaces characteristic of
Impressionism. Every stroke of the brushwork is stiff and distinct causing the
painting to seem dense and thick with paint.
Cézanne was obsessed with form and was passionate that subject matter was
secondary to his own performance of painting. He wanted to produce exactly
what his eye saw in nature rather than just a transient appearance of the
matter. It was this, his dense palette, unmistakable geometric nature, solid
frameworks and colour determined aspects of distance and depth that marked
the difference between Cézanne and his Impressionist contemporaries.
Cézanne’s style of art was undoubtedly revolutionary particularly with his
deviation from...
The exhibition in 1874 was held by an independent group of artists known as the
Impressionists and was held outside the prestigious ‘Salon’.
When Paul Cézanne exhibited with the Independents in 1874, his painting of
‘The House of the Hanged Man at Auvers’ , his controversial method
and technique of art was only just emanating and was met with sarcasm and
vicious criticism.
Cézanne’s painting ‘ The House of the Hanged Man at Auvers’ is
characteristically Impressionist evident in the bright colours and vigorous
brushstrokes. He wanted to capture the effects of light through colour but
equally he was advertent of objects and structure. The objects in the painting are
solid and the rectangular shapes complement the composition. The two main
houses seem to be on the same plane and don’t recede in depth . There similar
structure creates the illusion of symmetry and the unstable looking ground is
completely different to the faint, definite open spaces characteristic of
Impressionism. Every stroke of the brushwork is stiff and distinct causing the
painting to seem dense and thick with paint.
Cézanne was obsessed with form and was passionate that subject matter was
secondary to his own performance of painting. He wanted to produce exactly
what his eye saw in nature rather than just a transient appearance of the
matter. It was this, his dense palette, unmistakable geometric nature, solid
frameworks and colour determined aspects of distance and depth that marked
the difference between Cézanne and his Impressionist contemporaries.
Cézanne’s style of art was undoubtedly revolutionary particularly with his
deviation from...