CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/28/2014

Cézanne: Site/Non-Site

Paul Cézanne's 1900-06 painting "The Bend in the Road" is reproduced from Cézanne: Site/Non-Site, an early release from our Fall 2014 catalogue. Author Guillermo Solana writes, "Rather than a proprietor, Cézanne was a rambler. His experience of the territory of Provence did not spur him to fence in and parcel off the landscape but, on the contrary, to seek the freedom of the roads, to explore its intimate corners and its open vistas. But before becoming a painting, this perspective experienced by the picturesque traveler, this walkscape, needed to be processed by the artist's studio. To order his impressions of the outdoors, the painter subjects them to the cubic structure of the indoors with its vertical and horizontal coordinates, which symbolize the subject's rational control over nature. The memory of the constructed and closed environment of the atelierdetermines Cézanne's landscape from one end to another. Behind each bend in the road, in each background sky, we find the studio wall."