Mont Sainte-Victoire series

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The Mont Sainte-Victoire series is a group of landscape paintings by Paul Cézanne that exemplify his innovative, structural approach to form and color and are considered landmarks of Post-Impressionist art.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf landscape painting series
painting series
approximateEndTime early 1900s
approximateStartTime 1880s
artisticMovementInfluenced Cubism
modern art
artisticStyle geometric simplification of nature
innovative use of color
modulation of color planes
structural approach to form
colorCharacteristic limited, balanced palette
modulated, harmonized color planes
countryOfOrigin France
creator Paul Cézanne
depicts Mont Sainte-Victoire
formalCharacteristic broken, constructive brushwork
careful organization of spatial depth
emphasis on underlying geometric forms
reduced atmospheric effects compared to Impressionism
genre landscape painting
hasPart Mont Sainte-Victoire
surface form: Mont Sainte-Victoire (Courtauld Gallery)

Mont Sainte-Victoire
surface form: Mont Sainte-Victoire (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Mont Sainte-Victoire
surface form: Mont Sainte-Victoire (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

Mont Sainte-Victoire series self-linksurface differs
surface form: Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Bellevue

Mont Sainte-Victoire series self-linksurface differs
surface form: Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley
inCollection Courtauld Gallery
Hermitage Museum
Kunstmuseum Basel
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Musée d'Orsay
surface form: Musée d’Orsay

Philadelphia Museum of Art
influencedBy French classical landscape tradition
Impressionism
locationOfCreation Aix-en-Provence
Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
surface form: Provence
mainSubject Provençal landscape
mountain
movement Post-Impressionism
notableWorkOf Paul Cézanne
numberOfWorks dozens of paintings and watercolors
periodOfWork late career of Paul Cézanne
significance important for development of structural composition in painting
key work in transition from Impressionism to modernism
landmark of Post-Impressionist art
technique oil on canvas
watercolor
typicalViewpoint view across the Arc valley
view from near Aix-en-Provence

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Mont Sainte-Victoire hasArtworkDepictingIt Mont Sainte-Victoire series
this entity surface form: Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bellevue
Mont Sainte-Victoire hasArtworkDepictingIt Mont Sainte-Victoire series
this entity surface form: Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley
Post-Impressionism hasKeyWork Mont Sainte-Victoire series
Mont Sainte-Victoire series hasPart Mont Sainte-Victoire series self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Bellevue
Mont Sainte-Victoire series hasPart Mont Sainte-Victoire series self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley
Courtauld Gallery notableWorkInCollection Mont Sainte-Victoire series
this entity surface form: Montagne Sainte-Victoire (Cézanne)
The Bathers relatedWork Mont Sainte-Victoire series
Hortense Fiquet spouseNotableWork Mont Sainte-Victoire series