This is Czanne

Description

Jorella Andrews & Patrick Vale

Hardcover |17.8 x 1.9 x 22.9 cm | 80 pp

Laurence King | 2015 |9781780674780

Paul Czanne challenged convention and pioneered new possibilities in painting. He was remarkable for his ability to perceive and paint aspects of everyday life in ways that revealed dynamic yet deeply harmonious visions of the world. But the intellectual and emotional difficulties of his achievements were considerable. Mainly self-taught, most of his career was plagued by rejection. The critics, and the public, disliked his paintings, and in 1884 Czanne declared that Paris, the centre of the nineteenth-century art world, had defeated him. Repeatedly, he retreated into self-doubt and bad temper.

This book follows Czanne on his extraordinary artistic journey, focusing on his formative discoveries, made not in the flashy, fashionable metropolis of Paris but in provincial and rural France, often in isolation.

TheThis is… series, published by Laurence King, is a collection of illustrated biographies, presenting an accessible visual guide to the work of iconic creatives.