In C�zanne Reconstructed , the artist and poet Paul takes eight works by Paul C�zanne ( L'Estaque, Melting Snow, Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley, Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine, Portrait of Gustave Geffroy, Madame C�zanne with Unbound Hair, The Basket of Apples, The Bathers, and The Card Players ) and abstracts them through pixelation to reveal average color distributions over given areas of the image, from the entirety of the painting as one solid color to a "full resolution ...
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In C�zanne Reconstructed , the artist and poet Paul takes eight works by Paul C�zanne ( L'Estaque, Melting Snow, Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley, Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine, Portrait of Gustave Geffroy, Madame C�zanne with Unbound Hair, The Basket of Apples, The Bathers, and The Card Players ) and abstracts them through pixelation to reveal average color distributions over given areas of the image, from the entirety of the painting as one solid color to a "full resolution" image of the painting. Through these eleven stages of resolution, attention is called to the question of "what constitutes adequate reproduction?" In its manifold aspects, C�zanne Reconstructed can be viewed variously as a color study, as an examination of graphic reproduction, and as a work of visual poetry. C�zanne Reconstructed is part of the Reconstructed series of art books ( Bosch , Da Vinci , Rembrandt , Vermeer , Monet , Renoir , Van Gogh , and Rousseau ).
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