Cezanne A Study of His Development - Roger Fry - Bog

""Cezanne: A Study of His Development"" by Roger Fry is a comprehensive exploration of the life and work of French post-impressionist artist Paul Cezanne. The book examines the various stages of Cezanne's artistic development, from his early Impressionist-inspired works to his later, more abstract creations. Fry delves into Cezanne's techniques, such as his use of color and form, and discusses the artist's influence on the development of modern art. The book also includes numerous reproductions of Cezanne's paintings, providing readers with a visual representation of the artist's evolution over time. Overall, ""Cezanne: A Study of His Development"" is a must-read for art lovers and scholars interested in the life and work of one of the most important artists of the 19th century.1927. Fry, English art critic and painter and champion of modern French schools of art introduced Cezanne and the postimpressionists to England. From 1905 to 1910 he was curator of paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1933 he was made Slade Professor of Fine Arts at Cambridge. Interested in all eras, he consistently stressed the importance of analyzing the formal qualities within a work of art. His biography was written by Virginia Woolf in 1940. This volume contains his influential work on Cezanne, who today is regarded as one of the great forerunners of modern painting, both for the way he evolved of putting down on canvas exactly what his eye saw in nature and for the qualities of pictorial form that he achieved through a unique treatment of space, mass, and color.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.