Paul Cezanne Mont Sainte-Victoire Ca.1873 Original Landscapes Oil Painting Reproduction on Gallery Wrapped Canvas 30X22 inch

About the Painter
Paul C¨¦zanne (19 January 1839 ¨C 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. C¨¦zanne's often repetitive, exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields. The paintings convey C¨¦zanne's intense study of his subjects.

About the Painting
The Montagne Sainte-Victoire is a mountain in southern France, overlooking Aix-en-Provence. It became the subject of a number of C¨¦zanne's paintings.

In these paintings, C¨¦zanne often sketched the railway bridge on the Aix-Marseille line at the Arc River Valley in the center on the right side of the picture. Especially, in Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley (1885¨C1887), he depicted a moving train on this bridge.

Only half a year after the opening of the Aix-Marseille line on October 15, 1877, in a letter to ?mile Zola dated April 14, 1878, C¨¦zanne praised the Mont Sainte-Victoire, which he viewed from the train while passing through the railway bridge at Arc River Valley, as a ¡°beau motif (beautiful motif)¡±, and, in about that same year, he began the series wherein he topicalized this mountain.

These paintings belong to Post-Impressionism. C¨¦zanne is skilled at analysis: he uses geometry to describe nature, and uses different colours to represent the depth of objects.