This is a sketch I worked on Friday jun 14. I would love to post these daily vids but I can’t seem to get them out in a consistent time. So I have to work in them ahead of time so when I post it post at similar times.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoTmjjqzgJQ
This painting probably depicts a scene outside the grounds of the château de Marcouville, very close to Pontoise. Cézanne's interest in this landscape may be linked to the fact that his friend Camille Pissarro had already painted there five years earlier. However the comparison stops there. The patient search for gentle solutions typical of Pissarro seems far removed from this painting imbued with powerful energy.
Cézanne was interested in the clump of tall trees on the banks of the Viosne. The difficulty was in making this landscape of greenery "readable". To this end, he contrasted the rectilinear aspect of the poplars with the confused mass of the other trees. Between the slanting brushstrokes, characteristic of this period, the white background filters through almost everywhere, bringing luminosity and animation to the surface of the painting.
Clearly Cézanne was seeking to overcome the technical difficulty of representing a view where the only motif was foliage. The difference between this wooded landscape and those of the Barbizon school is significant. Cézanne, like Pissarro, represented trees that had been planted by man rather than those that grew "naturally". He therefore introduced into his paintings signs of human activity organising the landscape, rather than Nature's anarchic growth.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj9sHjK7IVk
Last video from this sketch. It took me some time to get to it. I have not been on media for some time. I am not sure if I’ll return.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xHiRk1nPJc
Gustav Klimt's large painting Death and Life, created in 1910, features not a personal death but rather merely an allegorical Grim Reaper who gazes at "life" with a malicious grin. This "life" is comprised of all generations: every age group is represented, from the baby to the grandmother, in this depiction of the never-ending circle of life. Death may be able to swipe individuals from life, but life itself, humanity as a whole, will always elude his grasp. The circle of life likewise repeats itself in the diverse, wonderful, pastel-coloured circular ornaments which adorn life like a garland. Gustav Klimt described this painting, which was honoured with a first prize at the 1911 International Art Exhibition in Rome, as his most important figurative work. Even so, he seems to suddenly no longer have been satisfied with this version in 1915, for he then began making changes to the painting—which had by that time long since been framed. The background, reportedly once gold-coloured, was made grey, and both death and life were given further ornaments. Standing before the original and examining the left interior edge of Josef Hoffmann's frame for the painting, one can still discern traces of the subsequent over-painting, which was done by Klimt himself.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRUesJpLnPc