Cezanne, The Large Bathers

Paul Cézanne, The Large Bathers, 1906, oil on canvas, 82-7/8 x 98-3/4 inches / 210.5 x 250.8 cm (Philadelphia Museum of Art). In the Google Art Project: www.googleartpr.... Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

[@Sasha0927]

Today feels like a day where watching a bather video feels acceptable, lol. A bit of peace at the end of a decidedly long week. 😌 I like the "unfinished" aspect of this - it creates a unique aesthetic that I'm enjoying. There's a lot of refinement and polish in art and understandably so. Whenever I create something, "completeness" and "polish" are goals. It's a fun challenge to see an artist intentionally say no to that. I kinda disagree that this is "anything but a luscious, sensual" image. It's clearly not a style meant to elicit that response, but in this "dying to show it all off" world, I'm almost more intrigued by what I can't see and don't know. The image around 4:08 really got me. I was immediately drawn to the colors and curious what everyone's doing - especially that pair in the lower right.

[@brooklynbabydoll718]

Cezanne was the bridge btwn Impressionism and abstraction

[@piaoingrou]

For me it's just Cezanne painting this nude theme in his style. It's a nice picture. And it is less labourious to paint in this style than the traditional way. It is accommodated to the mordern society's fast pace and meets the artist-dealer-critic-buyer marketing system. Somehow modern art is based on this system and that's why less and less people can understand what an artwork wants to tell. They are subjective and meant for limited people who can feel the subject (if they really have one) and wish to pay.

[@BrianHutzellMusic]

There exists an often antagonistic dynamic between the artist, the audience, and the venue/market. Performance artist Chris Burden made this explicit in his piece “Samson,” in which work literally had the power to destroy the venue at the hands of the audience at the instigation of the artist.

[@EWKification]

I have to admit that I hate this painting, though I like the other ones that are supposed to have derived from it.