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 The works of Paul Cezanne are that of a most infuriating genius. It seems primitive and bumbling and yet at the same time sensitive, delicate, smooth, and sophisticated. His nudes are the ugliest ever depicted, but they are also the most memorable; and his early portraits of friends and family are truly horrible. Cezanne, even more than Picasso, was the creator of and leader into the era of modernist art. Therefore many of his early works are full of half-baked ideas and mistakes that are common in an experimenter. The Black Clock is such a painting. Cezanne plays with powerful contrasts of black and blue-blacks and variegated whites tempered with a wide range of intermediate tones.Cezanne built this still life on a solid masonry of verticals and horizontals and composed all his elements into a beguiling chaos. The oddest feature about this painting is that the clock has no hands, giving it a uncanny sense of the timeless. This could be the finest still life ever produced.
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