Paul Cézanne in Aix-en-Provence
Source: www.theglobeandmail.com. Posted on 19 September 2005.
On a clear day in Provence in the 1880s, a middle-aged man with an easel and brush stood before a landscape of Mistral-swept cypresses, verdant fields and a craggy mountain.
The man was Paul Cézanne, and he was attempting to capture on canvas the illusive nature of Mont Ste-Victoire. One hundred and twenty or so years later, I found myself standing on the same spot near Aix-en-Provence, and, to my surprise and delight, there was Cézanne's mythical mountain, iridescent in the afternoon sun, towering over fields of silken wheat and red poppies.
