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Paul Cézanne


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Paul Cézanne
Photograph of Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne, c. 1861
Born19 January 1839
Aix-en-ProvenceFrance
Died22 October 1906 (aged 67)
Aix-en-Provence, France
NationalityFrench
FieldPainting
TrainingAcadémie Suisse
MovementPost-Impressionism
WorksMont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bellevue (c. 1885)
Apothéose de Delacroix (1890–1894)
Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier(c. 1893–1894)
The Basket of Apples (1895)
The Bathers (1898–1905)
Influenced byEugène DelacroixEdouard ManetCamille Pissarro
InfluencedGeorges BraqueHenri Matisse,Pablo Picasso
Paul Cézanne (French pronunciation: [pɔl seˈzan]; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th centuryImpressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. The line attributed to both Matisse and Picasso that Cézanne "is the father of us all" cannot be easily dismissed.
Cézanne's work demonstrates a mastery of design, colour, tone, composition and draftsmanship. His often repetitive, sensitive and exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields, at once both a direct expression of the sensations of the observing eye and an abstraction from observed nature. The paintings convey Cézanne's intense study of his subjects, a searching gaze and a dogged struggle to deal with the complexity of human visual perception.

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