Still Life with a Ginger Jar and Eggplants
Original title: Still Life with a Ginger Jar and Eggplants
kurzbeschreibung
Paul Cézanne painted this still life in oil on canvas in 1893–94, bringing together a green jug, a bottle, a fruit bowl, and a tablecloth. Everyday objects are arranged in a calm, orderly way.
Description
A green jug, a bottle, a bowl of fruit, and a tablecloth make up the subject. Blue dominates the palette, with accents of green, yellow, and orange. Light entering from the left highlights the cloth's texture and the shiny surfaces. The impressionist brushwork relies on color and texture.
Context
The painting belongs to Cézanne's middle years, when he devoted himself intensively to still life and dissolved inherited perspective in favor of an analysis of color and form. The jug and fruit stand for his search for a new pictorial order. During this time he broke away from the Impressionists and developed a constructive way of painting.
Impact
The quiet, almost meditative arrangement of the objects creates a still, collected mood. Strong color contrasts and the emphasized texture give the painting a sensual presence that invites close looking.
Technique
Oil paint on canvas, applied in dense, visible brushstrokes. The colors are layered over one another to achieve depth and effects of light; the surface appears relief-like.
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Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art · Public Domain (CC0 1.0)