Bathers 2
Paul Cézanne was absolutely obsessed with bathers, creating over 200 works on this single theme! Here, five nude figures lounge in a dense forest, but they don't look like soft, fleshy humans; instead, Cézanne has rendered them as sturdy, geometric forms that seem almost carved out of the landscape itself. He used short, parallel brushstrokes—often called 'constructive strokes'—to build up the volume of the trees and bodies alike. This radical approach to structure over realism paved the way for modern art movements like Cubism.
- Technique
- Oil on canvas
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