The Three Skulls Art Exhibition By Paul Cézanne July picks high contrast

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saturated light of the southern French summer

exploratory use of colour on paper

Angular lines intersect with softened arcs

The Three Skulls Art Exhibition By Paul Cézanne July picks high contrastLate in his career, Czanne returned repeatedly to the skull as subject not as gothic symbol, but as pure form. In The Three Skulls, three craniums are arranged much like his apples and pears: grouped with quiet deliberateness, lit from the side, built up through layered strokes of bone white, grey, and deep shadow. The composition has the same steady authority as his still lifes, yet carries an additional weight. The background is loose and gestural,