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Cubism and Paul Cezanne   (11th grade, Art)

Cezanne's painting, Apple

       Paul Cezanne is a famous artist in Modern art History particularly for Cubism. He is usually taught after or with Pablo Picasso's. They are both considered modern artist falling in 1860s to 19870s. Students often have fear with learning art in middle ages or renaissance period because they have hard time relating themselves to its period and old style. In contrast, student can be more familiar and engaging to approach Modern art. Modernism developed as artists escaped from traditions and, old rules and tried their fresh, unique style and experiment freely. Therefore, during this period, many artists came up with interestingly different style of paintings involving various, open subject matters, style, and range of colors and shape. With  providing sufficient images in the beginning, teachers can introduce them the dynamic visual world of modernism and make it exciting.

     A movement I suggested for modern art was Cubism and I thought of Paul Cezanne right away. The first website has brief description about his life and style and majorly consists his painting of almost 1000. It is much easier and accessible to see paintings first and visually approach rather then learning from text. The rest of website below has information about Cubism, Cezanne and also some other cubist artists. The reason why I selected Cezanne was because I considered that his painting shows the best of example for cubism. However, once students understand the style of cubism, teachers can provide more sources about other cubist paintings. Children can find similarities and connections within the paintings and experience wide range of experiment of artists.  

*Cubism and Paul Cezanne
http://www.paul-cezanne.org/
http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/cubism.htm
http://www.centrepompidou.fr/education/ressources/ens-cubisme_en/cubisme_en.html


*Video of Cezanne's use of Impressionism + Cubism 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm7XuMzC1II&feature=fvst