French la Vie

Cézanne painted more than a bushel of apples, returned 80 times to the same view of Mont Sainte-Victoire, and captured his gardener more than once—always circling the familiar, always finding something new.

“With an apple, I will astonish Paris.”
— Paul Cézanne

Steady confidence in the simplest subjects — 270 apples later, he did just that.

Children create instinctively and authentically—something formal schooling often disciplines out of them. Picasso in particular saw the artist’s challenge as not learning new techniques, but unlearning inhibition.

Cezanne’s later art.

photos by Chelsea’s mother in law.