Paul Cézanne's "Boy in a Red Waistcoat" (ASL)
Boy in a Red Waistcoat is the largest of four paintings that Paul Cézanne created of this model, Michelangelo di Rosa, while the artist was living in Paris. While the subject of a figure posed in classic contrapposto draws from a long artistic tradition, the flattened space of the room, the nearly abstract shapes of the background, and Cézanne’s use of color are innovations that drew on and shaped current artistic debates of the day.
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