Leo and I and the Ghost of Cézanne A Memory of Art and Provence |
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| Author:
| Weyman, William |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4825-5570-7 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2013 |
| Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $26.00 |
Book Description:
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Exploring the experience of his artistic growth, William Weyman's memoir is a moving and thought-provoking recollection of the formative years of his life as a painter and teacher. As an undergraduate at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, he had no way of knowing that the impulse to study in France would result in the life changing experience of meeting Leo Marchutz, artist, master lithographer, and Cézanne authority, or that the subsequent fifteen years would be spent...
More DescriptionExploring the experience of his artistic growth, William Weyman's memoir is a moving and thought-provoking recollection of the formative years of his life as a painter and teacher. As an undergraduate at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, he had no way of knowing that the impulse to study in France would result in the life changing experience of meeting Leo Marchutz, artist, master lithographer, and Cézanne authority, or that the subsequent fifteen years would be spent studying, working, and teaching with the man he would forever consider his mentor. The memoir portrays those years in the life of this monumentally influential figure in the author's life as well as their founding in 1972 of the Marchutz School of Art which still operates in Aix-en-Provence today in affiliation with the Institute for American Universities.A poignant exploration of the nature of art, its blossoming within the narrator, and the final fifteen years of the life of a wonderfully evocative artist, Weyman's ode to his mentor and friend is as mesmerizing as a Cézanne painting. It captures the lighthearted and serious with equal aplomb, dancing in and out of light and shadow like related brushstrokes of color, captivating and entertaining as it renders whole a picture of disparate yet connected parts. Equal parts breathtaking and insightful, LEO & I and the Ghost of Cézanne: A Memory of Art and Provence is a fascinating depiction of a time of discovery and the flowering of a gift and its soul.