. A short history of art . PORTRAITOne of the artists intensely concentrated and impressive interpreta-tions of every-day humanity. FRENCH PAINTING 733 Cezanne (1839-1905) A somewhat similar heightening of the imagination isaroused by the art of Paul Cezanne, the difference beingthat in his case there is no appeal to emotions, and the im-agination is not spiritualised but intellectualised. Whetherit was a figure or a landscape which he chose for sub-ject, it was not the visual impression that he tried to subjected the impressions of the eye to a close logicalanalysis, in order to dis
. A short history of art . PORTRAITOne of the artists intensely concentrated and impressive interpreta-tions of every-day humanity. FRENCH PAINTING 733 Cezanne (1839-1905) A somewhat similar heightening of the imagination isaroused by the art of Paul Cezanne, the difference beingthat in his case there is no appeal to emotions, and the im-agination is not spiritualised but intellectualised. Whetherit was a figure or a landscape which he chose for sub-ject, it was not the visual impression that he tried to subjected the impressions of the eye to a close logicalanalysis, in order to discover how the shapes, positions, andrelations of the objects before him affected the mind; hav-ing thus clarified the impression by this intellectual proc-ess, he set down the results of his reasoning in the mostsuccinct form, ehminating everything that miglit lessen theacuteness of the intellectualised sensations. His process ofsimplification and coordination was not a product of feel-ing, but of reasoned certainty. It wa
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