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This 4 page research paper offers description and analysis of Paul Cezanne's The Large Bathers (1906). Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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life, Cezanne painted three large works that all female nude bathers within a landscape ("The Large Bathers"). Within the context of Cezannes career, these works are the culmination of his
lifelong fascination with the nude, as they constitute his last testament to human nature within the context of French traditional narrative painting ("The Large Bathers"). This analysis focuses on Cezannes
The Large Bathers, 1906, oil on canvas, 82 7/8 x 98 3/4 inches. This work has been extremely influential, as virtually every artist of the next generation was influenced by
this work ("The Large Bathers, 1906"). Cezanne painted bathers throughout his career, both male and female, basically from the 1870s onward, sometimes singly, sometimes in groups ("Bathers"). The three
large-scale female bather groups that he painted late in life are part of the collections at the National Gallery, the Barnes Foundation and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In these
works, Cezanne continued the tradition begun by Titian and Poussin, in which female nudes are placed within a landscape ("Bathers"). While previously, subjects were taken from classical mythology, Cezanne eschewed
the use of literary source, rather, he incorporated a central theme of harmony, which derived from the figures themselves as expressed within the context of the landscape ("Bathers"). When the
painting was exhibited in 1907, it became an immediate inspirational and motivating force to the Cubist movement, which was in its infancy, as both Picasso and Matisse expressed strong interest
in the painting. The women in The Large Bathers are envisioned on a grand scale, which can be compared to divas in a production at the grand opera, with
arching trees acting as their proscenium ("The Large Bathers"). While the women at are completely at ease, there is also a great deal of motion and activity, but this is
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