Merleau-Ponty

        Cezanne relates to the work of El Greco in that both artist interweave between form and space throughout their compositions. This creates a unified surface, a give and take relationship between atmosphere, light, and substance. It is curious that aspects of Cezannes personal life including isolation and failed relationships were disintergrated in in the symphonic intergration his paintings were founded on. Merleau-Ponty's quote is accurate " . . . inhuman character of his paintings his devotion to the visible world, all of these would then only represent a flight from the human world, the alienation of his humanity."