BACK TO THE ARTIST   Self-Portrait with Palette, 1884           Details     Description     Artist Cézanne, Paul Cezanne painted many self-portraits, all of them severe, immobile. As psychological interpretations they are most impersonal. As Abstract arrangements of form and colour they have been acclaimed supreme by critics, on a level with the greatest classical art of the past. Here Cezanne employs the light palette and flecking brush strokes of the Impressionists. But he uses them to create a figure in space which has the purity of volume and grave nobility of French architectural sculpture of the Gothic period. At the same time, the flatness of his design and its abstract severity suggest the Cubists; these last qualities earned for Cezanne the title “father of modern art.”     Date 1884   Institution E.G. BZhrle Collection, Zurich     Medium Oil on canvas   Dimensions 92.5 x 73 cm