On The Theme Of Hometown In Cezanne’s Landscape Paintings

Cezanne is a originality master in modern art history.In the history of western art criticism,, the research of Cezanne has became a systematic study, which has covered the formalism, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, etc. On the contrary, China is lack of the research of Cezanne. This essay firstly introduces the theme of hometown in Cezanne’s landscape paintings, which is different from the research paradigm of a single motif in the past, and then describes the reduction and reconstruction process of hometown scenery in Cezanne’s paintings. The hometown in Cezanne’s painting shows his search for not only the essence of his hometown, but aslo the essence of his life space. In this process of the exploration, Cezanne had found his split as a creative subject, which was also an inner conflict between the reason and non-rationality. This split exactly blocked Cezanne’s path to essence.In this paper, the introduction part is outline of the content of the full essay. This essay is divided into four parts. The first chapter introduces the three patterns about hometown scenery before Cezanne’s paintings:possession, empathy and ignorance, explains why "home" is interpreted as "living space", and then points out the difference between the living world and the living space.The second chapter discusses how Cezanne overcame the models of living space in the past,restored hometown-in-itself, and formed personal painting features:the pure landscape, the unity of the modeling and literariness and comprehensive visual forms, which are the starting point for him to construct a new hometown theme. Based on the analysis of the artistry of Cezanne which take theme as the centre of paintings and form abstraction will, the third part explores Cezanne’s construction of the living space in his paintings. Combined with the analysis of the relationship between the subjectivity and his living space, this part explores the painter Cezanne as a creativity subject,and finds that his "anxiety" and "confusion" stem from his effort to try to unity the split of subjectivity. In the fourth part, this paper mainly analysises the theme of Cezanne’s hometown scenery in his paintings. This article finds that hometown is truth itself which is sought unremittingly by subject. This part, from the viewpoint of the origin of subjectivity and the split of subject and the truth subject, explores the significance of Cezanne’s art in the context of modernity.Through the discussion of this article, we know that how we think of Cezanne’s painting of the hometown scenery is how we think of the artist’s, as a creative subject, searching for the truth. In this process, it is meaningful to think about whether Cezanne reached his goal to searching for the truth. He was a martyr of searching truth in classical epistemology, while he became a flag-bearer of truth in the context of modernity. The rupture of truth triggered worries and doubt of the creative individual. At the same time, it became an element of change to renovate the living space. Cezanne offers the indispensable courage for modern pepole to return to home. His trying on the unity of the split of the subject and his self-reflection as a creative master offered a possibilities to the modern and contemporary art.