Labels:apple | book | bowl | orange | person | poster | reckoner | sky OCR: Paul Cezanne Text Despite its modest size this painting is monumental in aspect; it tonce belonged to the critic Gustave Geffroy, who became champion of Cezanne in 1894. Of all the still lifes the artist executed at this time this work constitutes one 0 i the finest illustrations of his painting's deliberately contradictory arrangements, especially in work after 1890 The desire for order for a vital intensity and mobile perception, are thus blended ir dynamic harmony. which seeks balance only in the tension of contrasts, the of opposition, and the free interpretation i of ancient formulas In this respect, the billowing cascades of white tablecloth falling toward the spectator and the pyramids of fruit stem from this reconsidered legacy. The fruit, the dish, and the jug are organized maje s ...
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