Cezanne's Landscapes and the Functions of Vision

Cézanne’s paintings have a special quality of close construction: their surfaces are tightly integrated. A study of his landscape sites shows that their organization is only in part imposed. The main objects are taken with surprising literalness from the structure of the motif, while textures are generally ordered by a synthetic process to resonate with the objects. Only by adhering to the structure of the motif does Cézanne release his synthetic capacities. Three suggestions about his personal functioning are made to account for this adherence: strength gained from passiveness in some of his interpersonal relations, dependence on outside structures for his inner equilibrium, and a search for clear relationships in visual reality as symbols of ideal ones in his inner world

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