Paul Cézanne

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Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne, c. 1861
Born	19 January 1839 Aix-en-Provence, France
Died	22 October 1906 (aged 67) Aix-en-Provence, France
Nationality	French
Field	Painting
Training	Académie Suisse
Movement	Post-Impressionism
Works	Mont 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 by	Eugène Delacroix, Edouard Manet, Camille Pissarro
Influenced	Georges Braque, Henri 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.