(Re)View of Mont Sainte Victoire

(Re)View of Mont Sainte Victoire takes an icon of landscape in modern art, Cézanne's Vue de la Montagne Sainte Victoire, and revisits it with a contemporary eye. Reworking a well-known image from art history engages a dialogue between the past and the present that emphasizes both the continuity and the rupture in the evolution of modern art.

At the base, there is a black and white analog photographic image reworked to accentuate the plastic elements of the photo, such as color and composition. This treatment, which flattens the colors and, therefore, the forms, makes the image more abstract and moves it away from a naturalistic representation of the landscape. The flat and artificial colors recall the aesthetics of "Pop Art" and the repetition of the images and their placement in a grid enter into a discourse on the reproducibility of the image and its objectification.

It is not only the difference in the plastic treatment of the image of Mont Ste Victoire, but also the "view" of the mountain that puts these photos squarely in the present. The photos were taken from a moving vehicle, giving a sense of speed and movement. There are also signs of our modern times: highways, road signs, cars, overpasses, etc. In conclusion, the juxtaposition between the two landscapes shows not only the changes in the style and treatment of the subject, but also the changes in the landscape itself. This modernization of the environment, which evokes an air of nostalgia for a lost state of nature, reinforces this dialogue between the past and the present.