Rose Bush — Fine Art

Rose Bush by Paul Cézanne puts a tangle of stems and leaves across the sheet. Red and pink flower heads break up the green. The artist builds the blooms from short separate brush strokes, the way he worked in his late nineteenth century paintings.

The fine art print sits on a wall where daylight hits it from the side. A light frame on a dark wall keeps the greens from washing out. You see the separate strokes best when you stand a little way back.

On a kitchen wall near the sink, the reds pull the eye while you wash up. From the doorway the picture reads as a patch of garden colour against the painted surface.