Paul Cézanne
Painting, Visual Artist
1839 – 1906
Who was Paul Cézanne?
Paul Cézanne 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 can be said to form 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."
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- Born
- Jan 19, 1839
Aix-en-Provence - Also known as
- Paul Cezanne
- Paul Czanne
- Paul Cézanne
- Cezanne
- Parents
- Spouses
- Marie-Hortense Fiquet
(1886/04/28 - )
- Marie-Hortense Fiquet
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Education
- Académie Suisse
- Aix-Marseille University
(1858 - 1861)
- Lived in
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Aix-en-Provence
- Died
- Oct 22, 1906
Aix-en-Provence
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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