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Lillian Davis
Modern Art
4/30/2022
Art trip to Chicago

At the end of May on memorial weekend, I will be driving seven and a half hours to

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We will leave Sioux city around or before noon to arrive on time for a

concert that starts at 8:30 pm. The artist performing is “Still Woozy”, and I look forward to

hearing his music live. I purchased the ticket for fifty-five dollars this included: the price of the

ticket, a parking pass, and the web convenience fee. After the concert, we will drive an hour and

a half to Chicago where we will be staying the night in an Air BnB. We will be staying for two

nights at this Air BnB so it’ll be around two hundred dollars for our stay. Throughout our three-

day adventure, I expect we’ll eat four actual meals and snacks in between which will be about

120$. On this trip, I plan on driving my beautiful Subaru.

Figure 1My Vehicular device ‘The Outie'

I know a forty-dollar tank of gas can get me to Iowa City, which is four and a half hours, so I

will budget two hundred dollars towards gas for driving there, back, and during the weekend.
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The day after the concert I plan on going to The Art Institute of Chicago which is located in

Chicago Illinois 111 S Michigan Ave. The Institute is open from 11 am to 5 pm Thursday

through Monday, but I would like to go around noon because a travel site recommended that it

would be the best time to go, for it would be less busy. Luckily for me, this trip just so happens

to align with a temporary exhibition being displayed at The Art Institute of Chicago. It is called

‘The Ey Exhibition Cezanne’ and it features a variety of work from Paul Cezanne it will be on

display from May 15th to September 5th. The museum will be displaying over a hundred pieces

of his work including oil, watercolor paintings, drawings, and two of his completed sketchbooks.

Paul Cezanne was born in Aix, France in 1839 and lived until 1906. Although he did exhibit with

the impressionists during the 1870s he later abandoned their conventional methods of perspective

which is why he is considered a post-impressionist.

There is no consistent post-impressionist style or declaration, but the artists from this era focused

on emotional expression through vivid colors and expressive images. This movement developed

in France in the 1880s and lasted till the early 1900s. A piece I would like to see and hope they

include at this event is one of his ‘Still Life with Apples’ because this piece was how I was

introduced to Cezanne and his artwork. In this piece, there is a curtain trailing from the top left

corner of the painting onto a table that spans the bottom half of the picture. The curtain is both

colorful yet neutral and appears to have some sort of kitchen-type pattern on it, and it lays on the

table with folds in it that are exaggerated and voluminous. Scattered within the folds of the

curtain’s fabric in the foreground of the table there are fruits that seem to resemble oranges,

lemons, and apples. In the middle ground of the table, there is a blue cup and in the background

on the table, there is a bowl full of round green fruits, and a colorful pitcher beside it. This piece

is mostly neutral with pops of vivid color.

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Still Life with Apples

Paul Cezanne, 1893-1894
27"x36 1/2" Oil on Canvas
Currently displayed at the Moma

This still life of his from 1894 is a great example of his unique style of rendering various

viewpoints of various objects in one picture. This technique allowed him to display different

objects like the fruit in the painting with more depth and abandons conventional methods of

foreshortening. In the last few decades of his life, he painted many still lifes using similar fruits

and table objects to explore the use of color, lighting, shape, and perspective. His multi-

perspective style is what made him such an influential artist and is what inspired artists going

into the cubist movement. The Chicago Art Institute’s Admission was 19$, the exhibition ticket

was 7$, and I also give myself an 80$ gift shop budget. Although I am traveling to this area for

an unrelated concert, I am also very excited to go to this museum and see some classic art pieces

that were introduced to me in class like A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by

Georges Seurat and The Bedroom by Van Gogh. In total this trip will cost around 681$.
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Works Cited

"CEZANNE." The Art Institute of Chicago, www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9288/cezanne. Accessed

27 Apr. 2022.

Phillips, Sam. ISMS: Understanding Modern Art. Universe Publishing(NY), 2013.

Voorhies, James. "Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)." The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oct. 2004,

www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pcez/hd_pcez.htm. Accessed 27 Apr. 2022.