{"id":84547,"date":"2021-09-02T18:16:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svetslik.si\/uncategorized\/rocks-and-branches-at-bibemus\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T12:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:54:14","slug":"rocks-and-branches-at-bibemus","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/svetslik.si\/en\/paul-cezanne\/rocks-and-branches-at-bibemus\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul C\u00e9zanne \u2013 Rocks and Branches at Bib\u00e9mus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rocks and Branches at Bib\u00e9mus \u2013 a quarry as architecture<\/h2>\n

Bib\u00e9mus is a disused quarry east of Aix-en-Provence, where C\u00e9zanne found a landscape already cut into planes and cubes of its own accord. Orange rock walls interweave with blue-green branches. Our hand-painted reproduction on canvas brings this unusual subject into your home, painted in oil on canvas.<\/p>\n

A landscape that was already Cubist<\/h3>\n

The quarry had been sawn by human hands into straight cuts and sharp edges. C\u00e9zanne had nothing to simplify \u2013 nature offered him the shapes he otherwise had to look for himself. It is these canvases that art history most often cites as a direct forerunner of Cubism.<\/p>\n

Orange and blue<\/h3>\n

The colour scheme is built almost entirely on the opposition between warm orange-ochre rock and cool blue-green vegetation. Between them there are no transitions but a contact \u2013 and it is that contact which creates a sense of depth without perspective.<\/p>\n

What you see on the canvas<\/h3>\n

Thin branches and trunks rise in the foreground and along the sides, and behind them the rock wall lifts with its sharp edges. The space is closed: there is almost no sky. The original is painted in oil on canvas, by the collection\u2019s record measures about 50.5 \u00d7 61 cm, and was made in the last years of the painter\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

A quarry in warm tones<\/h3>\n

The contact of warm ochre rock and cool greenery is everything \u2013 and it is that contact a hand-laid stroke gets right and a print never does. Choose among ten sizes or a size to your measurements. The warm tones heat a room that has cool, northern light. Look at the frame in our 3D preview. Among our reproductions on canvas<\/strong> you will find other subjects from the Bib\u00e9mus quarry and its surroundings: Ch\u00e2teau Noir<\/a>, Woods with Millstone<\/a> and Bend in Forest Road<\/a>.<\/p>\n