{"id":692,"date":"2011-10-22T04:47:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T04:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=692"},"modified":"2013-11-11T07:34:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T07:34:29","slug":"influences-cezanne-on-gorky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"Influences &#8211; (Cezanne on Gorky)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_693\" style=\"width: 758px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/1937-Portrait-of-Master-Bill-52-x-40-in-oil-reduced.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-693\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-693 \" title=\"1937 - Portrait of Master Bill - 132 X 102 cm - 52 x 40 in - oil (reduced)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/1937-Portrait-of-Master-Bill-52-x-40-in-oil-reduced.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"748\" height=\"950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/1937-Portrait-of-Master-Bill-52-x-40-in-oil-reduced.jpg 748w, https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/1937-Portrait-of-Master-Bill-52-x-40-in-oil-reduced-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arshile Gorky - Portrait of Master Bill - 1937 - 132 x 102 cm - 52 x 40 in -oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cezanne had a major influence on Gorky&#8217;s development as we see with the consideration of spatial planes in this painting.\u00a0 Gorky is not emulating Cezanne, he is applying his consideration of planes in space, as we saw in the post of Matisse&#8217;s painting <em>The Italian Woman.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here we can see the consideration at the figure`s left shoulder.\u00a0 Note how the background feels like it is cutting into the shoulder.\u00a0 Or a better way to put it is the figure is in the space.\u00a0 We can see it in the other arm as well .\u00a0 The lower arm feels to be in front of the figure.\u00a0 The background coloured shape between the forearm and the shoulder reads as the space.\u00a0 Do you feel it?<\/p>\n<p>There is a grey rectangle in front of the chair.\u00a0 What is it?\u00a0 It is not an identifiable thing, rather it is a plane in front, which is far better than showing the back leg of the chair.\u00a0 That evidence of perspective would be in conflict.\u00a0 Very impressive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cezanne had a major influence on Gorky&#8217;s development as we see with the consideration of spatial planes in this painting.\u00a0 Gorky is not emulating Cezanne, he is applying his consideration of planes in space, as we saw in the post &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=692\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,25,3,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}