Cézanne, the modern and the contemporary
Tutor Gerald Deslandes will lead this study visit in Oxford on Saturday 12 April. The visit looks at two artists working in different centuries who are each concerned with finding innovative ways of recording responses to landscape.
Cézanne is best-known for his close observation of Mont Ste Victoire, which he represented through the careful organisation of his visual impressions of the mountain into a pattern of colours, shapes and brush-marks. He then made the individual parts of this pattern rhyme both with each other and with the flatness of the picture plane.
Hannah Rickards is a contemporary artist who uses video, sound and text to translate other people’s impressions of natural phenomena. Her works have explored eye witnesses’ verbal descriptions of the ‘sound’ of the Northern Lights or accounts of images seen as a result of mirages on the Great Lakes. As in Cézanne’s work, her encouragement of her different interviewees to describe what they have experienced builds up an image that is elusive, piece-meal and ambiguous.
Places are free to OCA students. To book a place email enquiries@oca-uk.com
I once saw a documentary where someone was describing visual art to a blind person. It was quite captivating.