The Reinterpretation of Czannes the Large Bathers through James Joyces Aesthetic Theory

Abstract

This article assesses Paul C zanne s modern style and technique in his The Large Bathers but in light of James Joyce s aesthetic theory that was his early pronouncements on beauty goodness and truth influenced by the writings of St Thomas Aquinas C zanne s impressionistic art together with his progressive style and method are all crystallized in the Large Bathers making it too controversial a painting to analyze Significantly Joyce and C zanne s works demonstrate a mastery of design color composition and draftsmanship and that has made them both to be considered as forerunners of modern art and literature Therefore studying C zanne s thick layers of paint and undefined forms through the aesthetic theory of the controversial Irish writer leads us to a significant sense of aesthetic arrest which both artists attempted to follow and epiphanize in their works