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Cezanne´s 1905 canvas A Bend in the Road marks for many the departure point of European Modernism and the final fissure with the nineteenth century. For many Paul Cezanne was the father of modern art, seamlessly unifying the two centuries with a sensitivity and profound talent for continuous reinvention. A Bend in the Road is a restrained, impersonal and resonant reproduction from life imbued with the gentle contemplation of an artist who both forged new styles and transcended them. Purposely avoiding adopting familiar, trademark tropes like Van Gogh´s turbulent landscapes or Gauguin´s rich, exotic images, Cezanne was above all an artist´s artist, focusing on the articulation of form rather than of content. Having initially experimented with the Impressionist style, Cezanne managed to fuse the principles of outdoor art, as practiced by Monet and Renoir, with a more structural, pictorial plane which would prefigure the triumphant visual upheavals of the twentieth century. A Bend in the Road is the manifestation of his balance between Classicism and Impressionism, creating his own embryonic form of Cubism.
An idiosyncratic figure in turn-of-the-century European painting, Cezanne´s closest comparative contemporary is the Pointillist painter Georges Seurat, who also pushed the limits of representation even further and, along with Cezanne and Gauguin, forged the post-Impressionist style and further consolidated Par?s as the mecca of experimental art. Predicting the seismic revelations of Cubism, A Bend in the Road is a landscape constructed from fragmented shapes, transforming the spatial plane of the canvas into a site of overlapping, transparent levels of temporal and figurative depth. This impressionistic reproduction reveals the shift from different perspectives within the same moment. Throughout his career Cezanne emphasized the two-dimensional?ty of the canvas and thus drawing attention to the work of art as a work of artifice — one of the founding themes of Modernist art.
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Important Notes About Your Painting:
If you have any request to alter your reproduction of A Bend In The Road,
you must email us after placing your order and we'll have an artist contact you.
If you have another image of A Bend In The Road
that you would like the artist to work from, please include it as an attachment. Otherwise, we will reproduce the above image for you exactly as it is.
Free shipping is included in the price of the painting. Once the painting is ready and dry enough to ship, we will roll it and ship it in a sturdy cardboard tube.
We always ship express via courier to ensure your order reaches you as soon as possible - normally within three business days. The total delivery time from the moment you place your order until the package is delivered to your door is normally between three to four weeks.
If, in the unlikely event you were dissatisfied with the painting after reviewing it in person, it can be returned for a full refund for up to 365 days after delivery.
When you receive the painting; you are free to return it for more revisions or else for a full refund minus our actual shipping cost -- which is, on average, $25 per painting.
1st Art Gallery provides a full warranty covering manufacturing and material defects for paintings purchased from our website. The warranty covers damage for normal use. Damage caused by incidents such as accidents or inappropriate use are not covered.
Depending on the degree of damage to the warranted painting, it will either be repaired or replaced. This warranty service is provided free of charge.
When purchasing a painting on its own, it will arrive rolled inside a secure tube with an extra 1.5" of white canvas on all sides so you can easily frame it in any local frame shop.
You may choose to purchase your painting framed, in which case, it will arrive "ready to hang". We offer more than 20 beautiful models, all hand finished and expertly assembled by our experienced framers.
Note that for safety reasons we can only frame up to a certain size. Once the maximum size is reached the framing option is automatically disabled.
If you are planning to frame your painting yourself,
use an existing frame, or frame it locally, you may choose to order your painting with a stretching service,
meaning that it will arrive mounted on wooden bars.
If you're considering not framing your painting at all, you may opt for a Gallery Wrap. The term Gallery Wrap refers to the way the canvas is stretched, which is by wrapping it around thick stretcher bars, about 1.5 inch thick, with the canvas being secured to the back rather than the sides of those bars.
All orders ship with UPS, FedEx or DHL and will arrive directly to your home or office. A tracking number will be emailed to you as soon as the order leaves our studio so you can track it online. All orders ship express and usually arrive within 4-5 days from the shipping date. Due to shipping restraints, many of our framed, stretched, and oversize paintings may take 6-21 days for arrival depending on the safest route determined by the postal service.