Paul Cèzanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.
Forest of Château Noir is an important work by Cèzanne.
Well and Grinding Wheel in the forest of Château Noir is another important work by Cèzanne.
One important characteristic of art is that it is not nature.
Art is man's expression of his reception of nature.
Art is man's way of interpreting nature.
Art in not nature.
Art is made by man, whereas nature is a given around us.
Art and nature can be considered opposites.
What we find in nature should not be expected to be in art too.
Art is like each of these men's view of the elephant, based on an individuals subjective experience in nature.
Artists are not expected to duplicate nature just as even the scientists with their elaborate laboratories cannot make nature.