Paul Cezanne: The Card Players

Title: Les Joueurs de Cartes (The Card Players)

Created By: Paul Cezanne

Written By: Madison Herley

I choose the painting "Les Joueurs de Cartes" which can translate into the card players created by, Paul Cezanne. I found myself drawn to this painting because I thought it was a very different painting from the other paintings he has created in the past. A lot of the other paintings were still life paintings such as fruit, which I didn't find that interesting. In addition, I choose this particular painting because I thought it looked as if nothing was preplanned and Cezanne just found these two bed in a bar and started to paint them in there natural habit. If that was that case, that is very admiring because it shows that the painter Cezanne can paint anything that he sees and he doesn't need a model to do so. Lastly, I found this painting well done because both men are looking down at there cards instead of staring at the painter which is usually what is portrayed in paintings. Therefore, I like this painting the best because Cezanne used a different approach in this painting rather than his other paintings.