Paul Cezanne, one of the great Post-Impressionist painters, once said, "With an apple I will astonish Paris."
He is also reported to have said,“The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.”
Cezanne did indeed astonish Paris and set off a revolution; and he is now considered the Father of Modern art.
I used Cezanne's methods of using warm and cool colors to create form (warm colors advance on the picture plane and cool colors recede), when I painted this tomato.
For example, instead of using black to create shadow, I used cool greens, cool dark blue; and a cool red for a complementary color in the green shadow.
Also, I also used a violet (a cool color) under the edge of the tomato to push back the bottom edge.
See Impressionist color theory online for more information of this fascinating topic.
I am no Paul Cezanne and I painted a tomato rather than an apple, but I think that my painting is better off for having been painted in a Post-Impressionist manner.
Thank you,Paul Cezanne for your contribution to art.
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