Over the weekend I visited the Philadelphia Museum of Art. They are currently exhibiting the Cezanne and Beyond collection. It was incredible.
When I was still studying, I had taken two courses with an artist hiding out in eastern PA. He served in Vietnam and as part of the GI bill, the US government paid his tuition to any school he wanted. This artist chose to go to Oxford. He was trained in the classical methods of the old masters (with a serious dose of the Golden Section). Needless to say, we went over a lot of Paul Cezanne's work and analyzed the dominate horizontals, verticals, and diagonals using the Section.
At the time, I ju