Paul Cézanne
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Paul Cézanne, c. 1861
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| Born |
19 January 1839 Aix-en-Provence, France |
| Died | 22 October 1906 (aged 67) Aix-en-Provence, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Education | Académie Suisse, Aix-Marseille University |
| Known for | Painting |
| Notable work |
Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bellevue (c. 1885) Apothéose de Delacroix (1890–1894) Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier (1893–1894) The Card Players (1890–1895) The Bathers (1898–1905) |
| Movement | Post-Impressionism |
Paul Cézanne (US /seɪˈzæn/ or UK /sᵻˈzæn/; French: [pɔl sezan]; 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 endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne'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 Cézanne's intense study of his subjects.
Cézanne is said to have formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. Both Matisse and Picasso are said to have remarked that Cézanne "is the father of us all."
The Cézannes came from the town of Saint-Sauveur (Hautes-Alpes, Occitania). Paul Cézanne was born on 19 January 1839 in Aix-en-Provence. On 22 February, he was baptized in the Église de la Madeleine, with his grandmother and uncle Louis as godparents, and became a devout Catholic later in life. His father (1798–1886), a native of Saint-Zacharie (Var), was the co-founder of a banking firm (Banque Cézanne et Cabassol) that prospered throughout the artist's life, affording him financial security that was unavailable to most of his contemporaries and eventually resulting in a large inheritance.
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