Saturday, November 26, 2011

Cezanne in "Plein Air"

As we've noted previously, Cezanne was a cranky old curmudgeon. His painting process was painstakingly slow. He slowly and deliberately considered each stroke. This comic strip illustrates an anecdote related by John Rewald in his biography of Cezanne.

5 comments:

Matt said...

HA! These are all fascinating stories. Any more?

Paul Bozzo said...

Visually, I like the fine cross-hatching - and the hats! Intellectually, hmmmmm...fun and to the point.

Clyde Semler said...

Well done, Andrew!

Ben Villarreal said...

So great :-)

Anonymous said...

Yes, don't you love it when people walk right up to you, grab the pen out of your hand, and finish your drawing for you?
-- Marek