Pastell ist flüchtig und setzt sich doch in jede Ritze und hinterläßt fast nicht tilgbare Spuren mit dem kleinsten Pigment. Verletzlich wie das Papier und doch mit Präsenz, scheinbar leicht aber intensiv. Hier sind Dinge möglich, die mit Ölfarben nicht machbar sind.
The Cézanne We’ve Forgotten How to See
„But here in Cézanne’s watercolors of the cliffs of Provence — deliquescent landscapes, rocks turned into fluid — still lies a master class for artists working in a totally transformed climate, culturally and ecologically speaking. The keen gaze from Aix cleared the way for a century of modern artists who wanted to change the world, but you can’t change anything, not in your society and not in your atmosphere, unless you first give it form. Form is weddings and funerals, form is marches and movements, form is the difference between what you scroll past and what lasts. Form is how things you see becomes things that matter, investing even the daily haul from the greengrocer with the force of truth.“
Jason Farago in The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/27/arts/design/cezanne-moma-drawings.html
