Bathers In and Out of Lithography
The Bathers In and Out of Lithography Paul Cézanne is considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time. ... There are many ways to describe why there is so much confusion when it comes to Cézanne’s work, but the works where the subject matter is bathers seems to be the best group of works to describe it. ... Many people believed that Cézanne was a poor drawer and was incompetent of what he was doing when he created the portrayals of the bathers. ... ” This would turn out to be quite influetial to other artists, as well as being continuoius in many of Cezanne’s works to come. ... He started to paint mainly still lifes and bathers, but would then go to landscapes. ... The many works that Cezanne did of the bathers will best help explain the confusion of ideas towards Cezanne and hopefully will narrow the confusion. ... “These early works were brought on by his inner struggles at the time, and would later evolve into the bathers theme. ... ” The bather paintings started out with clothed men around naked women, but this would change as the paintings became almost segregated into groups of either female or male bathers. ... Cezanne struggled with dealing with the opposite sex throughout his life, this can be shown in his paintings of women bathers. ... This thought along with his childhood led to the nature orientated paintings of the bathers, that many other Impressionists at the time were vearing away from. ... Cezanne’s series of paintings containing bathers showed the old, wonderful dream of humans being united with nature. The bathers series created by Cezanne influenced Cezanne himself and the art world in general. ... In early lithograph publications, black and white was mainly used, but in 1896 color lithography played a more dominant role in Vollard’s album called Les Peintres-Graveurs (Druick, 119).” The lithograph named Large Bathers, is thought to be first publically displayed in this album.