THE IMAGO OF THE ARTIST'S FATHER: DUCHAMP VIS-À-VIS CÉZANNE.

This article compares the artists Paul Cézanne and Marcel Duchamp by psychoanalyzing the representation of their fathers in their artwork. Aesthetic connections between Duchamp and Cézanne are considered. The contrast between Duchamp's emotional connection with his father and Cézanne's distance from his father is noted. In portraits of his father, Cézanne showed him in profile, and the author presents several other symbolic characteristics that indicate distance between the artist and his parent. Duchamp's portraits of his father are framed in terms of their connection, but his other artwork is interpreted as a rejection of the bourgeois identity cultivated by his parent.