Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Monday, May 31, 2010
Cezanne Day!
This is the pool at the hotel.
Today is Cezanne Day! We started our day with an 8 am art history class. This prepared us to walk in the steps of Cezanne. Our first stop was his family's home in Aix-en-Provence, the city where we were staying. His family's house was set back far from the road. This is the gate to the property. It is open to the public but we did get the property to ourselves before the public was allowed to visit.
The family home, Jas de Bouffan, was a three story building in the French tradition. His art studio was on the third floor in an attic-like space.
Our group walked down the long front lawn to the estate.
There were many beautiful statues adorning the property.
There was a reflecting pool that appeared in a few of Cezanne's paintings.
After a fabulous audio-visual presentation in the home we were given this sheet with the paintings that were done on the estate and a map of where he stood to paint each one.
By the pool our group listens to the guide.
A fountain by the pool.
Cute fish!
Our guide Stella led us through the grounds and noted the areas that were in the paintings.
This photo is at the same angle as one of Cezanne's paintings.
More information about Cezanne's life.
One of the famous white horses of Provence.
Our next stop was the place where Cezanne painted the Mt. Sainte-Victoire.
When Cezanne painted on this site, there were no homes near here, but now this is a luxury home site and the residents tolerate the pilgrims of Cezanne in their neighborhood. This is a poster of the artist in action on this site.
This is Mt. Ste.-Victoire that figured so prominently in many of his paintings.
Here is one of the paintings that he created on this site.
Then we went to his art studio next. It was wonderful and was left the same as when he was alive.
We couldn't take any photos inside of the studio.
The apartment of Paul Cezanne on the third floor in Aix-de-Provence. The window was the same as the one in his art studio. His art studio was just a ten minute walk from here.
A plaque noting this is were he lived.
One of the little shops with lots of cookies and other goodies!
Wonderful fish dinner!
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