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Paul Cézanne

Born: January 19, 1839
Aix-en-Provence, France
Died: Ocotber 22, 1906
Aix-en-Provence, France
Movement: Post-impressionism

Still-life with Fruit Bowl
1879

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 can be said to form the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism 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.

At the age of ten, Paul entered the Saint Joseph boarding-school, where he studied drawing under Joseph Gibert, a Spanish monk, in Aix. In 1852 Cézanne entered the Collége Bourbon (now Lycée d'Aix), where he met and became friends with émile Zola, who was in a less advanced class. He stayed there for six years, though in the last two years he was a day scholar.From 1859 to 1861, complying with his father's wishes, Cézanne attended the law school of the University of Aix, while also receiving drawing lessons. Going against the objections of his banker father, he committed himself to pursuing his artistic development and left Aix for Paris in 1861. Eventually, his father reconciled with Cézanne and supported his choice of career. Cézanne later received an inheritance of 400,000 francs from his father, which rid him of all money fears.

Cézanne's work demonstrates a mastery of design, colour, composition and draftsmanship. His often repetitive, sensitive and exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognisable. Using 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, Cézanne's paintings convey intense study of his subjects, a searching gaze and a dogged struggle to deal with the complexity of human visual perception.

Had several periods through his career:
   The Dark Period, Paris, 1861-1870
   Impressionist Period, Provence and Paris, 1870-1878
   Mature Period, Provence, 1878-1890
   Final Period, Provence, 1890-1905

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