Painting by Cezanne
Mount Saint-Victoire
1902-1904
Class notes from Drawing the Figure in Space with Elizabeth Rupprecht, SAIC, 1991
Look at Cezanne’s Mt. St. Victoire – picture is divided into 3 horizontal bands: dark and warm on bottom, medium, warm & hot in center, light & blue at top.
Sky/mountain area over mid-plane overlapping front plane.
17th C. – paintings divided into 3 horizontal areas – light blue sky on top, mid-tone in center, dark foreground.
Find areas that are static and dynamic to the picture plane.
Hard lines will come closer to you.
(read more about Cezanne’s mountain paintings here.)
View a gallery of drawings made in this way from this class.