That painting is at least in part an expression of the painter's personality is obvious from the differences between very impulsive and very controlled painters - between the paintings of a Picasso, for example, and a Piet Mondriaan. But these differences have not been looked at in a controlled setting. In this book, Machotka sets out to understand the images produced by a broad sample of students and to connect them to the students' inner lives - to their interpersonal relations, their wishes and fears, their impulses and inhibitions. Their image making was followed in detail and their personality was studied in a long clinical interview, producing a rich, individual picture of the style and substance of the inner life of each. Then the images were grouped into seven types by cluster analysis. The personal data were found to fit the image clusters closely: for example, images with little form and much narration were produced by people with strong compensatory longings, while dense, collaged images were made by participants who exercised relentless control over one major issue in their life. Other individuals had a strong need to integrate their lives and produced well-formed, well-composed images. As expected, no single motive explained all artistic activity - but the style of the images, such as their inhibited formality, abstractness, or fluid boldness, reflected what could be called the map of each participant's interpersonal world.

Painting and Our Inner World: The Psychology of Image Making (The Springer Series in Adult Development and Aging)

Arts & Photography

Machotka, Pavel

History & Criticism

Springer

This book is the first to understand a painter's style as an expression of a style of perceiving. Machotka establishes that the way a painter sees the world and thinks about it sets up the range of styles within which he can choose to work. Of course, a painter also works within his historical setting, and Machotka sets the two lives in the context of the revolution in landscape painting launched by the Society of Six in the 1920s and the Bay Area Figurative painting in the 1950s. While doing this, he also presents a biography of each artist which is as sympathetic as it is closely observed.

Style and Psyche: The Art of Lundy Slegriest and Terry St. John (Perspectives on Creativity)

Hampton Pr

For more than a century, art historians have searched for the birthplace of Cézanne’s landscape paintings. In this volume, four scholars present the results of their quest, using photographs of the places where Cézanne painted and analyzing the intimate relation between the painter and his sources of inspiration.

On Site with P. Cezanne in Provence

Individual Artists

Editions Cres

Presents reproductions of Câezanne's paintings along with critical essays of his works.

Cezanne: The Eye and the Mind

This classic study, now expanded, juxtaposes Cézanne's paintings with photographs of the landscapes they depict
Cézanne: Landscape into Art, which reprises and expands the classic 1996 publication by Yale University Press, does precisely this. In this highly praised study, the scholar Pavel Machotka juxtaposes photographs of the sites of Cézanne’s landscape paintings--whenever possible, from the same angle and at the same time of day that the artist painted the scenes--with reproductions of the relevant paintings, offering a uniquely practical analysis of the ways in which Cézanne transformed reality into art. Since the original publication of this volume, new sites have been discovered--the result of scrutinizing collections of contemporaneous photographs and land registry records. These discoveries have added considerably to our knowledge of Cézanne’s movements and have even helped to date his paintings more precisely. The new photographs, which range from postcards from the artist’s time or the author’s own color photographs, allow for a richer and better informed consideration of Cézanne’s oeuvre. In light of those discoveries, Machotka has rewritten the previous edition to offer a fresh, rich view of Cézanne’s artistic aims and accomplishments.

Cézanne: Landscape into Art

Arbor Vitae