Year 1895 Artist Paul Cézanne Created 1895 | Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 65 cm x 80 cm Genre Still life | |
 | ||
Location Art Institute of Chicago Building Periods Impressionism, Cubism, Post-Impressionism Similar Paul Cézanne artwork, Artwork at Art Institute of Chicago, Post-Impressionist artwork | ||
The Basket of Apples is a still life oil painting by French artist Paul Cézanne. It belongs to the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
The piece is often noted for its disjointed perspective. It has been described as a balanced composition due to its unbalanced parts; the tilted bottle, the incline of the basket, and the foreshortened lines of the cookies mesh with the lines of the tablecloth. Additionally, the right side of the tabletop is not in the same plane as the left side, as if the image simultaneously reflects two viewpoints. Paintings such as this helped form a bridge between Impressionism and Cubism.
References
The Basket of Apples Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA