Cezanne's Doubt

Well the trip to the Philadephia Art Museum was a success. Andrew, Bruce, Myah (my 6 year old daughter) and myself went to Cezanne's exhibit. the exhibit lacks a variety of Cezanne's pieces, however, it was an interesting display of how he influenced others when it came to art. He reformed impressionism. In the essay, "Cezanne's Doubt", written by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, he pointed out how Cezanne's fears of death and society were reflected in his paintings. Cezanne didn't want to paint objects as though they were picture, similar to that taken by a camera. he wanted to paint objects as he perceived them. by using this theory when painting he distorted objects allowing the observer to see the object from various points of view. He painted life as he perceived life. PLease read the essay. it's an easy read and very informative.

Cezanne's Doubt can be found at the link below.
http://faculty.uml.edu/rinnis/cezannedoubt.pdf

The Philadelphia Art Museum

Hi all,

hope your weeks are going smooth and easy. i just wanted to let everyone know that andrew and i are planning to go to the art museum this sunday, it's free. if anyone is interested...send me an email.

anything discovered lately?

jack

Immanuel Kant and Paul Cezanne

I found a great website that compares the Kant and Cezanne check it out...
go to google books and search for Phenomenological Sociology by Harvie Ferguson

Also for a briefing on Cezanne: reference wikipedia :)

The book that I recommended at the meeting was Donald Palmer's "Looking at Philosophy". Its an expensive book, thus being because it's a text book...so don't feel obligated!

Andrew and I will be working on the Philosophy Tree this month and will have it ready for april 1st meeting.

Keep an eye on the blog for newly found information. If you find a good source of information...let us know!
Also make a note that the Philadelphia Art Museum is free on Sundays.

PPC- March 4th Meeting

Hi All,

I wanted to touch base and thank everyone for their input and participation. What an awesome group of people!
Okay to recap last night's meeting. we have the following attendees....

* Rich- the writer! check him out at<http://www.marimbadog.livejournal.com>. Most notable moment...the inspiration of David Byrne

* Whit- English Teacher. Loves physics and Bicycling. He's helping Jenny plan a wedding :)
* Jennie- she doesn't know "a lot" about philosophy. enthusiastic personality. loves eastern philosophy and is planning a wedding with Whit!
* John- took some introduction classes in philosophy...he mostly loves to analyze everything. He has a great connection of philosophy to fictional books.
* Tom- minored in philosophy...intrigued by Dystopia's Utopia and Thomas Moore.
* Bri- a software developer who just wants to learn more about philosophy. Interested in social evolution.
* Bruce- has no real philosophical background. he's trying to see the world in colors...bored with black and white
* Andrew- loves camus and the absurd. he's fascinated by natural law
* Jackie (me)- focused in phenomenology and loves Maurice Merleau-Ponty

who we were missing last night but will attend next month's meeting...Darin, George and Dwayne. We are very excited to meet you guys.

so onward and upward. Our discussion last night was about picking topics of interest. we went around the room and talked about what we could study, and here's what we came up with:

* Taoism and eastern philosophy
* Cognitive Thinking- phenomenology
* Social Behavior and how it manifests in large groups
* Economy and Social Structure
* Existential questions
* ichung, synchronizing, carl jung
* Religion
* Scientific Philosophers
* Evolutionary Psychology
* Evolution- Darwin
* Subjectivity vs Objectivity
* No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre

That being said, we closed out the meeting with Immanuel Kant and Paul Cezanne's art. (Whit you were right) Cezanne painted in the 1800's and Kant wrote in the 1700's. Cezanne is considered by many as "the Kant, if not the Husserl, of paintings". i will be posting the information about this subject on the blog later today (<http://www.phoenixvillephilosophy.blogspot.com>). So the thought is to study the connection between Kant and Cezanne. Cezanne's paintings are on displayed at the Philadelphia Art Museum. If you have the opportunity, read up on Kant's third critique from the "Critique of Pure Reason" and go analyze Cezanne's art.

Again, please check out the blog later today. I will suggest books and websites to look at. and if anyone has suggestions please feel free to put them out there.

thanks,
jackie