CAS AH 287 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Bodice, Coffeemaker, Marie-Hortense Fiquet
20 Dec 2016
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Cezanne contemporaries found his pictures to be strangely distorted because they were so used to traditional perspective that they did not realize these works required a new way of looking. Woman with a coffeepot: model for this portrait has not been precisely identified but she was probably one of the employees at the jas de bouffan, the c zannes" family home near aix en provence. C zanne used few professional models, preferring to work with members of his family or people he knew well, probably because he felt shy and painted very slowly. Woman with a coffeepot is a study of forms rather than character. The main elements in the composition the woman"s body, the cup and the coffeepot are painted in a highly simplified way in a strict arrangement of horizontal and vertical lines. This geometrical approach to volumes and the slant of the table represented from a higher angle than the objects standing on it herald cubism.
