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ART VIEW/Edgar Munhall; Cezanne's Peak Exhibits the Art of Compassion
The artist had known Sainte-Victoire since his earliest youth. With his schoolmate Emile Zola he used to take long walks, swim and read poetry aloud along the banks of the river Arc and in the woods around the mountain. But many years intervened before [Paul Cezanne] painted it in a realistic fashion in ''The Railroad Cutting'' of 1870, executed at his home, the Jas de Bouffan. It was from this considerable distance on the western side of town that the artist first began to concentrate on Sainte-Victoire, gradually over the years moving closer and closer to his prey until the mountain alone became the subject of his magesterial late canvases of 1902-06. Examples of this evolution, including celebrated canvases from the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Kimbell Art Museum and the National Gallery are displayed soberly and elegantly in the three major galleries of the Musee Granet; watercolors and drawings hang in a large, adjacent gallery with muted light. So satiated have we become with reproductions of these familiar works that the opportunity of studying them as a group and then going like Mohammed to the mountain that inspired them promises to be a provocative experience that could be had only in the context of such a special exhibition. But be warned that, as a result of the fire, Sainte-Victoire looks different today; be warned, too, that it can be a deeply humbling experience to realize how different our vision and feelings are from those of the artist who made Sainte-Victoire so famous. The origin of the name of the mountain - ''Sacred Victory'' - remains an enigma. Most historians of the area are inclined to associate the name with the decisive battle won at the mountain's base in 102 B.C. by Gaius Marius against the Teutons. By the 16th century the mountain, easily scaled from its north side, had become a site of religious pilgrimage, with hermits dwelling in its caves and a chapel on its top. The restoration of this structure in 1653 and its dedication to ''Our Lady of Victory'' was to provide the impetus for the lasting change of Mont Venture into Mont Sainte-Victoire. Today, though temporarily off limits because of the fire, the mountain maintains its mystical hold on the local population as well as those who come from afar to view it.
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