"Three Colours Cézanne" analyses the radical nature of Cézanne's painting, tracing its origins in the art of the nineteenth century and the work of the Old Masters while examining many of Cézanne's works in detail.
Cinematography
Close-ups that make paint texture feel erotic.
Direction
Sutherland lets the paintings breathe like characters.
Director
Janice Sutherland
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cézanne was so ridiculed in his lifetime that he submitted to the Paris Salon for 20 years and was rejected almost every time.
Picasso called Cézanne 'the father of us all'—this 1996 doc captures the exact moment art history pivoted from representation to abstraction.
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