Paul Cezanne
c. 1894-1895
This two-player version of The Card Players is often considered the most distilled of Cézanne's five-painting series, stripping away all background figures and narrative distraction. Reduced to two men, a table, and a game, the scene approaches what one critic called a ‘human still life’.
By stripping the scene to its essentials, the painting treats sustained focus itself as worthy of representation. This redefinition of subject matter, from action to structure, from story to concentration, became foundational for modern art, influencing Cubism and abstraction, where meaning emerges from form rather than narrative.
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