Uwishunu.com

Cézanne and Beyond; Photo by M. McClellan

Cézanne and Beyond at the Philadelphia Museum of Art has been extended for two additional weeks due to high demand, and will now remain on view through May 31, 2009.

One reason demand for tickets is so high “” the buzz about the exhibition has been so positive.

Every review I’ve seen has been glowing.

The latest from The Wall Street Journal last week:

For many modern artists Paul Cézanne was a talismanic figure, the shadow of his painting as impossible to escape as his achievement was to define. Throughout the 20th century, as scholars labored to construct a viable history of modern art, Cézanne (along with Manet, Courbet and a handful of transgressive others) was posited as its fountainhead, the protean begetter whose countless artistic progeny shaped a new aesthetic that placed vision and touch above traditional formal and narrative concerns.

Both Matisse and Picasso would claim Cézanne as a father, and almost every variant of 20th-century art could trace some aspect of its origins to his painting. Cézanne’s effect on later artists has become the stuff of exquisite exhibitions, heated debate, and a linear notion of modernism.

Without thoroughly disrupting that tidy critical trajectory, the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s current exhibition, “Cézanne and Beyond,” moves it onto more fluid and fertile ground, and the results are highly satisfying and visually thrilling.

Click here to see previous reviews.

Then CLICK HERE for more information about and tickets to the Cézanne exhibition.

SOURCE: A Father of Modern Art and His Many Progeny [Wall Street Journal]