Painting by Paul Cezanne.
Like Edouard Manet, from whom he borrowed so much, Cézanne was prompted
to rethink the value of the various illusionistic techniques that he had
inherited from the masters of the Renaissance and Baroque eras. This
was due in part to the growing impact of photography and its
transformation of modern representation. While Claude Monet borrowed
from the camera the fragmenting of time, Cézanne, ever at odds with
Monet, saw this mechanized segmenting of time as artificial and at odds
with the preception of the human eye. By Cézanne's era, the camera did
shatter time into tiny fragments as do modern cameras that can easily be
set so that the shutter is open to light for only 1/1000 of a second (even faster, i heard...)
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