Cezanne: The Eye And The Mind

Cezanne: The Eye and the Mind

Machotka, a painter himself, fully grasps Cézanne’s goals and desires as a painter – his desire to paint sensuous narrative scenes, his lucid vision, his sense of a harmony of forms – and he discusses, as only a painter can, the inner workings of Cézanne’s images. Examining almost half of Cézanne’s work, Machotka draws a complex picture of Cézanne’s artistic development. The painter’s evolving styles grasped reality in their own way, and adapted themselves to the different needs of landscape, portrait, still life, and bathing scenes. No other book on Cézanne is as complete and penetrating.