“It’s a type of experience that some painters have: a need to … get at the essence of what painting is, even if it’s just using an apple.” —Maureen Gallace on Paul Cézanne's still life paintings with apples: http://met.org/1PtNhvx #MetArtistProject | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Today’s little journey in 5 paintings 1- Marie Danforth Page (American, 1869-1940) The Mother⁣, 1916 2- Félix Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 – December 29, 1925) Still Life with Large Earthenware Jug, 1923 3- Paul Cézanne House in the Trees, Auvers, 1879 4- Albert Marquet Green Louver, 1946 5- Bruno Liljefors (Swedish, 1860-1939) Cat in the summer meadow, 1920 #brunoliljefors #albertmarquet #paulcézanne #félixvallotton #mariedanforthpage #artinfinitus | Art Infinitus

Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and a central figure in the development of modern art, often described as the bridge between Impressionism and Cubism. He sought to give lasting structure to natural forms by constructing images through color rather than line, reducing nature to basic geometric shapes such as the cylinder, sphere, and cone. Known especially for his still lifes, landscapes like Mont Sainte-Victoire, and figure compositions such as The Bathers, Cézan