Barnes Takeout: Art Talk on Paul Cézanne’s The Card Players
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2024
- While away the hours-or at least five minutes-by joining Nancy Ireson, our Gund Family Chief Curator, for a card game with workers on Paul Cézanne’s estate.
When you're back #seeingtheBarnes in person, look for The Card Players in the main room of our galleries.
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Wonderful critical assessment as always..many thanks
I greatly enjoy this video having seen this painting first in "University Prints" when I was 13.
These daily Takeouts have been a wonderful addition to this sheltering at home period. My family was lucky enough to visit the Barnes this past December so the timing of these in depth treatments of the some of the works has been ideal for me. The Card Players is one of my favorite paintings in the collection.
Your love of this painting shines through your presentation. It is contagious!
I have loved everyone of these talks. I know that you have to pick one or two points about each work, research those points, and then present what you find. I am certain that everyone of these paintings could be an entire semester or year long class on their own! Thanks to all of you for picking different aspects of each of the pieces and then doing such thorough jobs at explaining your points! I often wonder when I look at these paintings who the people were and if they knew they were in such famous paintings. Thanks for a great talk!
Thanks, Nancy! Wonderful selection and nice discussion. I’m confident that, given the time, you would have spoken much more, with so much to explore in this piece.
What a great bit of detail and history on this painting!! So enjoyable!! I was able to eavesdrop on a group discussing this painting when I visited the Barnes and here some different details on the specifics of the characters and other objects in the painting, such as the pipes on the wall. It's really great to have several parts of a painting discussed, even by different experts, as you glean a little more and different perspective from each one. Well done, once again!!
I am thoroughly enjoying EVERY dose of Barnes "takeout". 'what an education for a layman. Your narrators are warm, enthusiastic, and certainly knowledgeable. Thank you so very much for helping get through this difficult time. Cannot wait to return to the Barnes!
Bob Green
Spring Mills, Pa
Thank you for picking this painting and telling us about it.
I am curious about how he achieved “balance” by placing the picture in the middle, the shelf at the top left and even the hanging pipes “higher” than they would ordinarily be. And the legs of the card player facing us . . .
It's such an arresting picture. Thanks for giving us more insight into why it is so great.
I love watching these! I would really enjoy seeing a Barnes Takeout on Renoir's Portrait of Jeanne Durand-Ruel.
Noted and passed on to our education and curatorial teams!
Wonderful talk! I remember a Barnes docent told me the figure standing at the rear appears to be floating on air.
I was very interested in the comment regarding this work being a part of the "Card Players" painting genre. Chardin did card players and many still lifes, and I think he influenced Cezanne. Also, Caravaggio and Georges de La Tour did "Card Players" paintings, but they were usually "tricksters." Cezanne's players are humble folk who aren't "cheaters."
Always interesting!
So glad you chose this painting, one of my faves. Would you kindly spell the little girl’s first and last name? I would love to try and find that interview in the1960s.
I love that touch of yellow you mention, and I love how it's counterbalanced by a touch of red on the tip of the chin, and a line of blue along the collar on the right side of the face. The warm-colored face is really framed by the blue on the collar and the blue on the left cheekbone. Cezanne often seems to shy away from painting faces, but in this painting he put great care into depicting the players.
This is one of my favorites, too. Cézanne's brushwork is extraordinary. The painting is extraordinary. I wonder is there evidence that he sketched the figures on the canvas before painting them in? Thank you, David.
It was very common for Cezanne to draw the "Cartoon" prior to putting on color. He was also apt to draw in and draw out line as the composition changed throughout the painting process. He was in a constant search for ways to express color, form and shape... and he was famous in his idea of line. There is a story of him explaining line though opening and closing one eye and how the actual edge or line would move between eyes... Cezanne was one of those amazing artists who's branches spread wide and still influence today. Dr. Barnes wrote an exceptional book on Cezanne as well as a wonderful book called "The Art in Painting" where he describes in detail Cezanne... if you have not read it, I would highly recommend it... It is a wonderful and eye opening book on how to discover art instead of seeing them as artifacts of history.
Bizique (what a great Scrabble word BTW) is described as a 2 handed game. I like to think of it as whist or bridge with the onlooker as "dummy". Whatever, it does appear that Cezanne is inviting the viewer to sit in on a hand. The fabric on the right suggests to me that it was painted in the studio rather than a farmhouse or brasserie (no beverages).
Cezanne does give us many things to consider. There’s the almost stormy sky seeming of the background wall balances against the stillness of the card players. And, I have to ask, did Cezanne I tend to have the pipe stems on the wall point back to the very still “action” at the table?
How do we know the man in back isnt cheating?
I find it fascinating how little Ms. Ireson spoke in terms of how Dr. Barnes and his education would have looked and then spoken about this work. About the shape and forms. The traditions of composition and how the viewer is drawn through that composition. What we got was a history lesson, which to me is like an obituary... now it is so, and the discovery of the visual becomes less important compared to who someone was... Cezanne had very strong ideas about light, line, color and space... This painting was the wellspring for other painters, writers, etc... not because of the subject or what year he painted it, but the visual elements and his use of the visual language. My feeling is that Dr. Barnes and Cezanne would have been saddened that this painting was reduced to it being described in terms as it related to "Modernity" in his brush work. He did develop a brush work method that solved his particular need to display color and shape. oh boy I could go on... but I am saddened that what Dr. Barnes had created in his objective method of enjoying art has been left out completely... and instead we have heard about something that is interesting but leaves anyone looking at this painting void of an opportunity for discovery.
If it were left to Dr. Barnes, we'd all have to visit The Barnes Foundation in order to see any of his collection bc he was firmly against reproductions.
I was fortunate to grow-up near the old Barnes in Merion & visited often. My Mother studied there as well.