Still Life with Milk Jug and Fruit, 1900 by Cézanne
In this still life painting by Cézanne, many colors are used in the patterned curtain, the brown desk, and white dishes. Rather than placing all objects on the flat table surface, he propped up the dish in the way that he thought was best. We can see Cézanne’s method of mixing small amounts of color and making a series of dabs together in that color. The colors wrap around each piece of fruit. He used blue paint to draw and draw again as he changed the placement of things.
How many apples are in the dish? How does the tilted angle of the dish help us to see the apples better? What other types of fruit do you see? What colors do you see on the white pitcher? In what parts of the painting do you see blue lines?
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