A 9x12 pastel and charcoal drawing.
Just completed reading Cezanne and the End of Impressionism by Richard Shiff. It contains an intriguing line somewhere in the middle: "One is confronted with the possibility that all art is actively made; and impressionism's appearance is not the result of receptive innocence, but active deception." Deception here means that the artist really does know what he is doing, but paints as if he might not. Shiff calls this the "technique of originality". I can't quote the whole book, but Shiff explains why Cezanne is a master impressionist.
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