The Bend in the Road
1900 National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
About this artwork
This oil on canvas landscape depicts a winding path leading through a rural vista. It exemplifies the artist's focus on structured composition through planes of color.
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Cezanne was known for his rigorous and sometimes repetitive process, often painting the same landscape dozens of times to capture the underlying structure of nature. This particular series of landscapes from around 1900 reflects his movement toward a more abstract approach to form and light, which eventually became a fundamental influence for the development of Cubism.
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The Bend in the Road
Paul Cezanne, 1900
