Pictorial Space throughout Art History: Cézanne and ... - ARAS
Pictorial Space throughout Art History: Cézanne and ... - ARAS
Pictorial Space throughout Art History: Cézanne and ... - ARAS
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<strong>ARAS</strong> Connections Issue 2, 2012<br />
Plate 15-2 Robert Casper. American. Still Life with Violin<br />
<strong>and</strong> M<strong>and</strong>olin. 1993. Copyright Robert Casper.<br />
diagonal from orange in the rear wall over the central orange cake.<br />
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In<br />
Casper's<br />
painting there is<br />
a main diagonal<br />
over the white<br />
hanging<br />
tablecloth, the<br />
white menu, <strong>and</strong><br />
the round<br />
mirror. This is<br />
met by the<br />
The yellow-<strong>and</strong>-gray vase <strong>and</strong> cloth in the lower right <strong>and</strong> the white-<strong>and</strong>-<br />
gray vase in the upper left constitute two major planes. The yellow-<strong>and</strong>-gray pulls<br />
down, forward <strong>and</strong> right against the white-<strong>and</strong>-gray which pulls up, back <strong>and</strong> left.<br />
There is also a major tension between the white hanging table cloth <strong>and</strong> the white<br />
menu.<br />
The objects on the table are clearly located in depth. Air circulates freely<br />
around them. They exp<strong>and</strong> forward <strong>and</strong> back <strong>and</strong> toward the four sides of the<br />
rectangle. The painting feels massive. More paintings by Casper.
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