“Cézanne was discovering a complementarity between the equilibrium of the body and the inevitability of landscape. The indentations of some rocks in the forest of Fontainebleau have the intimacy of armpits. His late baigneuses form ranges like mountains. The deserted quarry at Bibémus looks like a portrait. What is the secret behind this? Cézanne’s conviction that what we perceive as the visible is not a given but a construction, put together by nature and ourselves.”
John Berger in the Guardian.
