Monday, January 5, 2015
Madame Cézanne: The Case of the Miserable Muse
If Mona Lisa is the smile, Madame Cézanne is the scowl. Hortense Fiquet, Paul Cézanne’s model turned
mistress turned mother of his child turned metaphorical millstone
around his neck, endures as a standard art history punch line—the muse
whose misery won immortality through the many masterpiece portraits done
of her. Or at least that’s how the joke usually goes. The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s current exhibition Madame Cézanne,
which gathers together 24 of the 29 known portraits Cézanne painted of
Hortense over a period of more than 20 years, tries to rewrite that joke
as it hopes to solve the riddle of Madame Cézanne, aka, The Case of the
Miserable Muse. Please come over to Picture This at Big Think to read more of "Madame Cézanne: The Case of the Miserable Muse."
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Cezanne might have been a fascinating painter and a direct link into post-Impressionism, but he was not a decent human being.
Cezanne lied to his father for years (to protect his inheritance, I suppose), he was cruel to his close childhood friend Zola, he was horrible to his wife and neglectful of his only child, and was vulgar to his role model Pissarro during the Dreyfus Trials.
If I was Hortense, I would have had other people tell my life story. Not Cezanne.
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