Still Life with Statuette
1890s
Paul Cézanne was absolutely obsessed with this plaster cast of a cupid, keeping the cheap studio prop in his room for decades to paint it over and over. Notice how the table seems to tilt upwards and the perspective feels delightfully wonky? That’s Cézanne breaking the rules of traditional art to show multiple viewpoints at once, a radical move that basically invented the roadmap for Cubism. He surrounded his little statue with apples and peaches, treating everyday objects with the same seriousness as a grand historical painting.
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