Paul Cézanne, 1904 - Black Castle - fine art print

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Black Castle was by Paul Cézanne in 1904. The original has the following size: 73,7 x 96,6 cm (29 x 38 1/16 in). Oil on canvas was used by the French artist as the technique for the piece of art. Moveover, the artpiece forms part of the digital collection of National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., United States of America. We are delighted to reference that the artpiece, which is in the public domain is being provided with courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington.Moreover, the artwork has the following creditline: . Moreover, alignment is landscape with an aspect ratio of 4 : 3, which means that the length is 33% longer than the width. Paul Cézanne was a painter, whose style can be attributed mainly to Impressionism. The European painter was born in 1839 and deceased at the age of 67 in the year 1906.

Description from National Gallery of Art website (© - by National Gallery of Art - www.nga.gov)

Cézanne's paintings after about 1895 are more somber, more mysterious than those of earlier years. His colors deepen, and his brushwork assumes greater expression. Spaces become more enclosed. Compare this landscape with Houses in Provence: The Riaux Valley near L'Estaque, c. 1883, executed 20 years earlier.

That painting is open, while a web of branches screens this one. This place is crabbed and remote—much more difficult and forbidding. Compare the skies, too. This blue is no longer airy, but leaden, darkened with touches of purple and green. Even the pale buildings have been replaced by a deeper ocher. Late in his life Cézanne was attracted not only to the fundamental order of nature, but also its chaos and restlessness. The moody loneliness of this place seems matched to his own. He painted Château Noir several times. It was the subject of local legends and had earlier been called Château Diable, "Castle of the Devil." With its Gothic windows and incomplete walls, it has the look of a ruin.

Cézanne still painted in the open air, directly in front of his subject, as impressionist Camille Pissarro had encouraged him to do. But this is far from a quick recording of fleeting visual effects. It is a long and intense meditation, an attempt to "realize"—to use Cézanne's word—his complete sensation of this place, which involves his temperament, his vision, and his mind equally.

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