In his still lifes, Cézanne explored every aspect of color and form in the objects which he took from everyday life in the home: apples, pears, bottles, a ginger jar… These subjects he studied and rearranged at leisure, before turning them in his paintings into expressions of pure contemplation, with the solidity of a mountain. The force of the images is equaled only by their rigor of form and color. Although the pictures are entirely figurative, the abstract compositional values are nonetheless developed to the highest degree.