Cézanne's “Five Bathers” in the Basel museum

 

Cezanne's bathers painting in Bazel Museum are among the most well-finished paintings.

I found a preparatory sketch for the oil painting online.

Although the finish is quite rough at first glance,

we can already see the sense of harmony and balance.

First try coloring the clearly defined arcs and the circles of the arcs of the sketch.

With only six types of circles, it is possible to show clearly curved parts.

we can see the circles are almost bundled together to achieve balance.

This is a technique commonly found.

Here I will show you the structural model of a medieval miniature.

mediaval miniature "Lady and Hawk"

The climbing rose pattern in the background and the two figures are structurally integrated.

Create an arc model of the oil painting using four circles of different sizes.

Then I'll try making it more technically tight based on this.

 By simply redrawing the two nudes on the right, I could further increase the number of intersections of large circles.

Cezanne simply sought harmony and balance, without knowing the ornamental method.

This means that he had re-invented the universal technique.

I previously wrote that Beardsley and Seurat used the same technique in their later years.

As an illustrator, Beardsley had knowledge of traditional decorative techniques.

Seurat used the technique for his later masterpieces, probably as a result of his study of classical art.

Cézanne was the only one who rediscovered the universal technique through intuition alone.

Although Cézanne was understood by those around him at the end of the nineteenth century, his bathers' paintings were ignored.

It was only in the 20th century that Matisse and Picasso understood the

significance of the bather paintings.

As is still the case today, most people think the human bodies are so ugly.

Matisse experimented the distortion of form in “Dance Ⅱ “ 

Picasso’s pre-Avignon nudes are the after seeing Cezanne’s disfigured nudes.