I didn’t get passed this, the first painting in the Cezanne Exhibition now open at the Tate Modern in London – it stopped me in my tracks! Full intensity colours, a vibrancy that’s in your face, and beckons you to stop and engage!
And I smiled, for I knew; as it all came flooding back: we have so much in common deep within.
The far side of the table is on three levels, three different viewpoints; the near side is on two – but it looks fine! For so many years, thousands, we have looked for truth in the Absolute; but in reality, Absolute Truth was only ever a justification for domination.
Since the Civil Rights movement of the 1960’s, right through, and still now to today, the Great Work of our era has been to try to create truth-fulness: where different viewpoints and perspectives can be integrated in harmony.
Cezanne’s art foreshadows the values of our own era; that’s why his paintings connect with us so…