Paul Cezanne oil painting reproduction. Cezanne drew and painted more than sixty versions of this massive limestone escarpment, which loom a thousand meters above the flat country fifteen kilometers east of Aix. The "Sacred Mountain of Provence", as Mont Saint-Victorie is sometime called, became the leitmotif of Cezanne's work. It must have become for him something of a symbol of what he wanted to express: the grandeur, the life, the power, yet the eternal order and stability of nature. At the heart of Paul Cezanne's ambitions from painting was the desire to ascertain nature in its most rudimentary and elementary form. Mont Saint-Victorie's reduction nature into essential units not only denotes the degree of the visual scrutiny and exactitude Cezanne brought to the subject, but also anticipates the experiments with the form, perception, and space carried out under Cubism.
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