Carol Armstrong on Paul Cezanne
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Ernest Hemingway never acknowledged the influence of any artist in any medium more generously than that of the French painter Paul C\\xe9zanne. From the 1920s, Hemingway\\u2019s character Nick Adams \\u201cwanted to write like C\\xe9zanne painted.\\u201d As an older writer, Hemingway visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art to gush about the painter's influence on his approach to writing. \\xa0
One True Podcast turns to Carol Armstrong, professor of Art History at Yale and a leading C\\xe9zanne scholar, to help us understand how appreciating the artist's work can illuminate Hemingway\\u2019s approach to writing. Armstrong discusses C\\xe9zanne\\u2019s historical context, his modernist leanings, his interest in landscape and movement, and his own relationship with the written word.\\xa0 Join us to discover what Hemingway meant when he vowed to \\u201cdo the country like C\\xe9zanne.\\u201d
This episode was recorded on June 15, 2020.