Cézanne's Composition: Analysis of His Form, with Diagrams and Photographs of His MotifsThis meaty book fulfills its stated purposes, namely, 'to reveal exactly what is meant by the organization of space.' Enigmatic terms such as 'space organization, ' 'picture plane, ' 'volume solidity, ' are so fully explained that never again can they be considered aesthetic mysteries...Loran's definitive technique is ingenious and almost foolproof. |
Contents
Cézanne as Theorist and Artist | 7 |
An Illustrated Glossary | 17 |
How Cézanne Organized a Picture | 25 |
Problems of Perspective | 45 |
The Problem of Scale and the Control of Volume and Space | 59 |
Distortion in Drawing | 87 |
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Cézanne's Composition: Analysis of His Form, with Diagrams and Photographs ... Erle Loran Limited preview - 1963 |
Cézanne's Composition: Analysis of His Form, with Diagrams and Photographs ... Erle Loran Limited preview - 1970 |
Common terms and phrases
Abstract art achieved aerial perspective Analytical Cubism analyzed André Lhote arrow artist axes axis bars background balance Bibemus Braque brush strokes canvas central rock Cézanne's color Cézanne's form Cézanne's painting Cézanne's picture Château Noir cliffs color modulations color planes composition contours cool create Cubism decorative deep space depth diagonal Diagram II distortion drawing dynamic dynamic plane El Greco elements Emile Bernard eye levels Figure foreground form and space front plane Gardanne Glossary horizontal illustrated important Impressionists indicated John Rewald L'Estaque linear marked ment motif mountain movement negative space objects orange outlines painters parallel Paul Cézanne photograph Picasso pictorial picture box picture format picture plane plastic means portrait positive volumes problem relation Renaissance Rewald right-hand Sainte Victoire scientific perspective seen shapes solid space organization spatial structure surface tension textural three-dimensional three-dimensional space tion trees two-dimensional Venturi catalogue vertical wall water color zanne zanne's