Fotoreproductie van een schilderij met een gezicht op de Mont Sainte-Victoire bij Aix-en-Provence door Paul Cézanne uit de collectie Hoogendijk, nu in The Barnes Foundation c. 1915

This is a photogravure by Koop Remmerts Semplonius after a painting of Mont Sainte-Victoire by Paul Cézanne. The earthy sepia tones create a muted atmosphere, don’t they? You know, looking at this, I'm struck by how process becomes the subject of the work. The texture is rendered through the photogravure, almost as if you could feel the individual strokes that would have been present in the original painting. What I love is how the monochrome palette abstracts the landscape. It’s not just a picture of a mountain, but an arrangement of tones and shapes. See the peak of the mountain? It looms in the distance, a solid, almost geometric form. Ultimately, this artwork is about how we see and translate the world around us. It's part of an ongoing conversation that artists have across time, each adding their own perspective to the act of image making. There are echoes of Corot in here, too, that tonal sensibility. Art is never really settled, is it? There are just more ways of looking.