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Kitchen Table, 1888-90 by Paul Cezanne
Objects - pots, fruit, basket, cloths - are assembled on a table in a simply furnished kitchen. The artist nods to the historical tradition of still-life in previous centuries, from Italy and Spain, to the Netherlands and France.
But really, as always, Cezanne's subject is painting itself. How can you render the real world using liquid pigments on a stretched flat canvas? Cezanne investigated forms, reducing them to simpler geometries, and reassembling them in complex combinations to represent painted truth.
Paul Cezanne pushes the table and cloth close to the viewer, cropping them at the bottom. Individual pots sit uneasily on an impossibly tilted plane of table-top.
Il tavolo da cucina cezanne biography
The grey ginger-pot has no surface left to sit on, and neither has the large basket at the back. But they demand their space, painted from above, or front-on, as the composition requires. Similarly, the table, cupboard and chair line up diagonally on the left, none holding