Paul Cezanne

The Bay of Marseille, Seen From L'Estaque, painted by Paul Cezanne, is a very beautiful painting due to its value scale with the complementary harmony of blue and orange. Balancing the cool and warm colors, we can make out that the color with the strongest chroma is blue. The value scale shifts from light to dark, but the painting does not go completely dark and has gets lighter in the sky with the ocean being the darkest thing in the painting. The color and the value scale of the painting helps visualize the positive and negative space, the complete design of the painting, and the lines that we may see within the painting.
From the warm colors of orange, red-orange, and green, my eye starts from the bottom corner to the dark blue middle, and then to the top where the blue color becomes very light. The visual weight is moved through the painting due to the way the painter worked with the colors for this piece, but also how the dark blue ocean tends to dominate strongly in the painting. There is no exact shape that dominate the
Like previously stated, there are three types of vector lines, and the objects, in the painting have slight dark outlines surrounding around it barely. Within the painting the gestural quality outcome of the painting being formed is static. What is interesting is that the painter does both cross-hatching and the hatching throughout his paper. The sky is mainly the only thing that is done by cross-hatching with the rest of the piece is done by hatching, and it mixes the dark light tones in the buildings and trees quite nicely.
In conclusion, I think the painting, The Bay of Marseille, seen rom L'Estaque by Paul Cezanne, is a very interesting masterpiece. It has a lot going on within the painting due to the contrasts of complementary colors and a nice value scale