HISTART 180C Chapter Notes - Chapter Schapiro: Camille Pissarro
23 Jan 2017
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The apples of cezanne: an essay on the meaning of still-life. Apples could be considered a symbol of heterosexual love, and thus a subconscious transposition of zola"s apples to cezanne onto cezanne"s ideas and dreams of love. Does not the association here of fruit and nudity permit us to interpret cezanne"s habitual choice of still-life which means, of course, the apples as a display of erotic interest? . He commonly [defused] of a sexual theme through replacement of a figure by still-life objects, as seen in the two works female nude and leda and the swan. The regular use of apples leads historians to believe they are symbolic of some deeply rooted feelings/emotions. Much changed in cezanne"s 30s: domestic life marriage and children, patronage and support of pissarro (father-figure) Cezanne, under pissarro"s wing, passed from a dark, heavily charged tonal painting with frequent violence of contrast to the gentler. Still-lifes were more easily considered symbolic expressions of the artist"s subconscious.
