The palette is warm and inviting
directing full attention to the figure's form and expression — posture and ornamentation carry the work's emotional register
exploratory use of colour on paper
giving the scene a luminous
saturated light of the southern French summer
The Three Skulls Art Exhibition By Paul Cézanne July picks The palette is warm andLate in his career, Czanne returned repeatedly to the skull as subject not as gothic symbol, but as pure form. In The Three Skulls, three craniums are arranged much like his apples and pears: grouped with quiet deliberateness, lit from the side, built up through layered strokes of bone white, grey, and deep shadow. The composition has the same steady authority as his still lifes, yet carries an additional weight. The background is loose and gestural,