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retained a dominant interest in the still life as a subject, while they were more interested in landscape or genre subjects. For him, the “grappling directly with objects,” undemanding and unchanging, with only the form and relationship to be considered, was a sufficiently inspiring task. While these early works do not perhaps have the grandeur and deeply signifying unity of his mature still life paintings, they do unmistakably indicate the way his art was moving—away from Baroque Romanticism to a Classical silence.

PLATE 7 Still Life with Green Pot and Pewter Jug (1869–70) Oil on canvas, 25 1 ⁄ 3 x 31 7 ⁄ 8 inches (64.5 x 81 cm) This painting, together with another from the same time, The Black Clock , has usually been identified with the change in Cézanne’s technique that was leading to the development of his own style and direction. Although during the 1870s he was associated with the Impressionists under Pissarro’s influence, unlike them he

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