The Card Players by Paul Cézanne | Equilibrium and Form
Paul Cézanne
In The Card Players, Paul Cézanne turns a rural café game into a study of <strong>equilibrium</strong> and <strong>monumentality</strong>. Two hated peasants lean inward across an orange-brown table while a dark bottle stands upright between them, acting as a calm, vertical <strong>axis</strong> that stabilizes their mirrored focus <sup>[2]</sup><sup>[3]</sup>.
