The Three Skulls Art Exhibition By Paul Cézanne July picks The blossoms themselves are painted

The blossoms themselves are painted with a slow attentiveness rarely seen in his more turbulent canvases

high contrast

Angular lines intersect with softened arcs

directing full attention to the figure's form and expression — posture and ornamentation carry the work's emotional register

The Three Skulls Art Exhibition By Paul Cézanne July picks The blossoms themselves are paintedLate in his career, Czanne returned repeatedly to the skull as subject not as gothic symbol, but as pure form. In The Three Skulls, three craniums are arranged much like his apples and pears: grouped with quiet deliberateness, lit from the side, built up through layered strokes of bone white, grey, and deep shadow. The composition has the same steady authority as his still lifes, yet carries an additional weight. The background is loose and gestural,