PAUL CEZANNE’S MONT SAINTE-VICTOIRE AND THE VIADUCT OF THE ARC RIVER VALLEY AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE APPLICATION OF DECONSTRUCTIVE PLASTIC ANALYSIS OF PAINTING

Abstract

Deconstructive analysis is a reading approach
applicable to any human-made institution, text,
or artwork, including the established thought
that constitutes it. However, the deconstructive
approach is ultimately an analysis, and this
analysis is not merely a process of dismantling
and inventorying the dismantled structure under
consideration. Nor is it a process of constructing
or establishing a new or different structure from
the dismantled parts. The deconstructive
approach to reading structure is an analytical,
discriminatory reading and comprehension
strategy focused solely on identifying and
demonstrating the arbitrariness, and therefore
groundlessness, conventionality, and thus
infinite nature, of the dominant and established
logic of thought, which Post-Structuralist
philosopher Jacques Derrida considered to be at
the center of Western philosophy and constitute
a widespread and fundamental tradition. In this
study, a well-known work from art history is
taken as an example, based on the assumption
that a painting—a work of art that has not
previously existed in the world of existence,
having come into being entirely based on the
artist's creative thought—is already created
through detachability, given that it is a structure
established by the artist's established thought
and arbitrary decision. The study uses the example of Cezanne to illuminate the
problematic of this work by identifying and
analyzing the artist's artistic career, whereby
artistic thought is subject to specific conditions
and does not persist indefinitely. This example,
chosen through an examination of the artist's
artistic career, corresponds to a period of the
artist's specific conditions, his Proto-Cubist
phase