Beauty is on the table. In the middle of pitchers, vases, dishes, plates and utensils of all shapes and materials, fruits and vegetables, poultry and loaves of bread, fish and seafood are enthroned, decorated with flowers placed here and there on the clever folds of the tablecloths, magnified by a ray of light falling from a window or the glow of candleholders warming the pewter.
And then one day Cézanne made a clean sweep of these deceptive devices, and gave us a lesson in shapes and colors: Everything in nature is modeled on the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.