Click Here to Enquire
2025
oil on wood board
30 × 50 cm
This painting is a response to the famous photo entitled ‘Camille Pissarro, Cezanne, Martinez and others in the garden at Pontoise, 1877’. It is the emotion of this photograph in which Cezanne buries his head in apparent melancholy, that the artist responds. There is a sense that something is over, that something has failed, and a sense of homage. The cook lies flat with a protrusive stomach, and cooks stand beckoning, exclaiming with their gestures a concern about the uncertain state of the cook lying on the ground. Cezanne was claimed to be the father of modern painting. This cook is perhaps the founder of modern cooking? Perhaps he has overeaten and cannot get up or is even dead? Perhaps he is lying in a yogic trance or is drunk, we just don’t know.
The painting also pays reference to the film Conclave. In this film, a decision is to be made about the choice for a new pope. Here, the inference is that the conclave is over and the result is unfathomable, with a cook lying on the floor, we have no idea of the real state of this figure. ls this a deeply mystical painting or just an image of inconsequential kitchen antics?
Artist
William Balthazar Rose
Shipping
Please click here to email us your address, so we can calculate shipping costs and get back to you with a quote.
Click Here to Enquire
2025
oil on wood board
30 × 50 cm
This painting is a response to the famous photo entitled ‘Camille Pissarro, Cezanne, Martinez and others in the garden at Pontoise, 1877’. It is the emotion of this photograph in which Cezanne buries his head in apparent melancholy, that the artist responds. There is a sense that something is over, that something has failed, and a sense of homage. The cook lies flat with a protrusive stomach, and cooks stand beckoning, exclaiming with their gestures a concern about the uncertain state of the cook lying on the ground. Cezanne was claimed to be the father of modern painting. This cook is perhaps the founder of modern cooking? Perhaps he has overeaten and cannot get up or is even dead? Perhaps he is lying in a yogic trance or is drunk, we just don’t know.
The painting also pays reference to the film Conclave. In this film, a decision is to be made about the choice for a new pope. Here, the inference is that the conclave is over and the result is unfathomable, with a cook lying on the floor, we have no idea of the real state of this figure. ls this a deeply mystical painting or just an image of inconsequential kitchen antics?
Artist
William Balthazar Rose
Shipping
Please click here to email us your address, so we can calculate shipping costs and get back to you with a quote.
Image 1 of 1