Les territoires successifs de Cézanne

Abstract

Cézanne in Provence, to be sure; but, from the point of view of the represented sites, can it be said that there is a permanent aspect? or an evolution? The notion of painter’s territory, in my proposal, will be sometimes physical and topographical - the sites where the landscape painter works - but also will be understood as resulting from cultural choice. I propose myself to look, from a point of view of an iconographist, the relationships between Cézanne and the city subject , and, by extension, with that one of the inhabited landscape, relationships that are in the origin of all those landscapes located on what is defined as periurban, nowadays. An approach rather typological than morphological, the typology being the subsisting way to the generalist, mistaken by the deepest specialists’ knowledge.