Paul Cézanne: Still Life (Nature morte), Paul Cézanne, 1892–1894, Oil on canvas, Still life was a major preoccupation for Cézanne during the 1890s. He would take everyday household items—jugs, napkins, pieces of fruit—and arrange them in different combinations to study their forms and their relationships to each other. Look how Cézanne captures the peaks and valleys of an ordinary napkin, as if it is a rocky landscape spreading across the table. We seem to view the table from several perspectives at once—from straight on and from above—which brings a bit of tension, even motion, to these seemi

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