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''Homage to Cézanne'' () is a painting in oil on canvas by the French artist Maurice Denis dating from 1900.〔(Maurice Denis ''Homage to Cézanne'' ) Musée d'Orsay, 2006. Retrieved 17 June 2014.〕 It depicts a number of key figures from the once secret brotherhood〔(Art Terms: Nabis ) Museum of Modern Art, 2014. Retrieved 8 July 2014.〕 of Les Nabis (Hebr. the Prophets). The painting is a retrospective; by 1900 the group was breaking up as its members matured. ==Subject matter and composition== In this painting, Maurice Denis has gathered a group of friends, artists and critics to celebrate Paul Cézanne, who is represented by his still life ''Fruit Bowl, Glass and Apples'' of 1879–80 on an easel in the centre of the painting.〔 The scene is the shop of the art dealer Ambroise Vollard in the Rue Laffitte.〔 The Cézanne painting had belonged to Paul Gauguin who is thus evoked, despite not being pictured, having left France permanently in 1895 for the South Seas.〔〔〔(Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) ) ''Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History'', Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014. Retrieved 10 July 2014.〕 Gauguin described the Cézanne as "an exceptional pearl, the apple of my eye."〔(Still Life with Fruit Dish ) Museum of Modern Art, 2014. Retrieved 25 June 2014.〕 Works by Gauguin and Renoir can be seen in the background.〔 Pictured are many of the key figures from the secret brotherhood of the Nabis, for whom Gauguin was the principal mentor.〔Dempsey, Amy. (2005) ''Styles, Schools and Movements: The Essential Encyclopaedic Guide to Modern Art''. New York: Thames & Hudson, pp. 50–51. ISBN 0500283761〕 Included are the symbolist painter Odilon Redon, the focus of attention on the far left, Paul Sérusier (Nabi instigator) centre talking to Redon, and at the back, left to right, Edouard Vuillard, the critic André Mellerio wearing a top hat, Ambroise Vollard behind the easel, Maurice Denis, Paul Ranson, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Pierre Bonnard with a pipe, and on the far right Marthe Denis, Maurice's wife.〔 Redon is the respected elder figure of the group, set somewhat apart from the rest. It can be inferred from Sérusier's pose that he is explaining to Redon why the Nabis admire Cézanne.〔(''Masterpieces from Paris: Homage to Cézanne'' ) National Gallery of Australia, 2009. Retrieved 17 June 2014.〕 Over time, Redon had come to be more closely associated with Cézanne than with Symbolist fellow traveller Gustave Moreau.〔Lucie-Smith, Edward. (1972) ''Symbolist Art''. London: Thames & Hudson, p. 75. ISBN 0500201250〕 Redon's inclusion in the picture is not surprising; Denis was a fan of Redon and once remarked "the lesson of Redon is his powerlessness to paint anything which is not representative of a state of soul, which does not express some depth of emotion, which does not translate an interior vision."〔Lucie-Smith, 1972, p. 78.〕 At 180 cm high x 240 cm wide the painting is almost life size, which serves to increase its visual impact. The composition has strong verticals in the erect poses of the subjects, the easel and the walking stick, against which the brightly coloured rectangle of the framed still life is contrasted.〔 The scene is crowded. Vollard is grasping the easel which is bursting out of the top edge of the painting, and the figures fully occupy the space of the canvas, leaving little room for anything else. Mrs Denis is reduced to peering over Bonnard's shoulder. Contrasting the strong verticals, the heads of the group provide a horizontal rhythm to the work. The conservative black suits belie the avant-garde reputation of the Nabis.〔 ==Significance== Belinda Thomson described ''Homage to Cézanne'' as Denis "turning away from the more spectacular, subjective Symbolism of Gauguin and van Gogh towards what he saw as the reassertion of classical values in Cézanne."〔"Denis, Maurice." Belinda Thomson, ''Grove Art Online, Oxford Art Online'', Oxford University Press. Retrieved 18 June 2014.〕 Denis had visited Rome with Gide in 1898 where he had discovered a renewed interest in classicism.〔 He subsequently published articles such as "Cézanne" in 1907 and "De Gauguin et de Van Gogh au classicisme" in 1909 which argued that classicism was at the core of French cultural tradition. By doing so, he influenced a new generation of French artists.〔 A possible antecedent for the work is ''A Studio at Les Batignolles'' (1870) by Henri Fantin-Latour, which features, amongst others, Édouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Émile Zola and Claude Monet.〔 ==Exhibitions== ''Homage to Cézanne'' was shown at the Salon de la Société nationale des beaux-arts, Paris, 1901, and the Salon de la Libre Esthétique, Brussels, Belgium, 1901. It was not shown again in an exhibition until 1948.〔 Reactions in 1901 were mixed. Denis referred to the work in his diary as "that painting, which still makes the public laugh".〔Letter to André Gide in Maurice Denis, ''Journal'', Vol. 1, Paris: La Colombe, 1957, p. 168.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Homage to Cézanne」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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