- Character -
Those things - brilliance, vision, isolation, transformation, innovation,
paranoia, bitterness, merging influences, are all things that I see in
myself, sometimes in brief astonishing glimpses, sometimes in protracted
horrifying periods. In Cezanne, I see an introvert unprepared for the
slings and arrows associated with being a trailblazer and innovator on
that scale.
Early in his career he must have felt like a lightening rod. His paintings
were unpalattable to the establishment (the Ecole de Beaux Arts rejected
him several times), and he was largely considered to be poor mixture of
emotional romantic color and violent themes. Even, after that pivotal moment
when he began to combine the old and the new into his new constructive
modernist style, he was attacked and denigrated for his art, becoming a
symbolic representation of the new disturbing trends in art.
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