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Paul Cezanne

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French painter (1839-1906)

Paul Cezanne was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation and influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century, whose work formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and early 20th century Cubism.
While his early works were influenced by Romanticism – such as the murals in the Jas de Bouffan country house – and Realism, Cezanne arrived at a new pictorial language through intense examination of Impressionist forms of expression.

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About the Paul Cezanne

While his early works were influenced by Romanticism – such as the murals in the Jas de Bouffan country house – and Realism, Cezanne arrived at a new pictorial language through intense examination of Impressionist forms of expression. He altered conventional approaches to perspective and broke established rules of academic art by emphasizing the underlying structure of objects in a composition and the formal qualities of art. Cezanne strived for a renewal of traditional design methods on the basis of the impressionistic colour space and colour modulation principles.

Cezanne’s often repetitive, exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields. The paintings convey Cezanne’s intense study of his subjects.

His painting initially provoked incomprehension and ridicule in contemporary art criticism. Until the late 1890s it was mainly fellow artists such as Camille Pissarro and the art dealer and gallery owner Ambroise Vollard who discovered Cezanne’s work and were among the first to buy his paintings.

In 1895, Vollard opened the first solo exhibition in his Paris gallery, which led to a broader examination of Cezanne’s work. Both Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso are said to have remarked that Cezanne “is the father of us all”.