Paintings

Paul Cezanne’s Mont Saint Victoire and Sonia Delaunay’s Electric Prisms seem to be quite different. Electric Prisms is a painting of shape and color. These shapes are abstract. Mont Sainte Victoire is a painting of a mountain, a sky and a valley. Mont Saint Victoire and Electric Prisms are really similar in three important ways; color, space, and shape. The colors in the two paintings are remarkably alike. The artists used oil on …

…the landscape. Delaunay’s shapes are also distributed throughout the landscape. She used shapes that are more visible. In this painting we can see that these shapes are very unified. In their color, space and shape, Mont Sainte Victoire and Electric Prisms are clearly similar. Both paintings employ dominant shades of colors. Both paintings present crowded areas that are attractive to the eye. And both paintings express the outline in a creative form. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**